ABSTRACT

Traditional communities are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, especially given the connection with nature and its territory. Despite this, traditional knowledge has been recognized as relevant to a better design of climate policies. This paper evaluates how the literature is studying the importance of law to protect traditional communities and respective territories and integrate their knowledge in climate change adaptation mechanisms. For this purpose, it undertakes a literature review of scientific articles that cross the topics of indigenous/traditional communities, climate change, territory, water, and law, published between 2010 and 2020. The findings show a residual number of articles on climate change paying attention to traditional communities and an uneven distribution of case studies among the world’ regions. Furthermore, they bring to the fore that, despite the potential to foster the protection of traditional communities from climate change impacts and to assure the integration of their knowledge into resilience policymaking, the role of law is scantly referred to in articles and the Paris Agreement has not exerted significant influence in the development of new studies with this approach. Given the relevance of this subject and the identified gap, this article suggests new paths for research development.

摘要

传统社区极易受到气候变化的影响，尤其是考虑到与自然及其领土的联系。尽管如此，传统知识已被认为与更好地设计气候政策有关。本文评估了文献如何研究法律对保护传统社区和各自领土以及将他们的知识整合到气候变化适应机制中的重要性。为此，它对 2010 年至 2020 年间发表的跨越土著/传统社区、气候变化、领土、水和法律等主题的科学文章进行了文献综述。调查结果显示，剩余数量的气候变化文章付费对传统社区的关注以及案例研究在世界各地区的分布不均。此外，它们突出表明，尽管有可能促进保护传统社区免受气候变化影响并确保将他们的知识纳入复原力决策，但条款中很少提及法律的作用，而《巴黎协定》已经用这种方法对新研究的发展没有产生重大影响。鉴于该主题的相关性和已确定的差距，本文提出了研究发展的新途径。条款中很少提及法律的作用，而《巴黎协定》并未对采用这种方法的新研究的发展产生重大影响。鉴于该主题的相关性和已确定的差距，本文提出了研究发展的新途径。条款中很少提及法律的作用，而《巴黎协定》并未对采用这种方法的新研究的发展产生重大影响。鉴于该主题的相关性和已确定的差距，本文提出了研究发展的新途径。