Introduction

Indigenous Peoples and local communities directly experience climate change impacts, but each group experiences impacts in a different way. The LICCI network includes about 50 Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers working with and affiliated with the institutions around the world. The common ground of the network is a shared interest in exploring the diverse ways in which the climate change affects Indigenous Peoples and the local communities and how they respond to it. All members of the network also gratefully acknowledge and deeply respect the invaluable contributions of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities, whose traditional knowledge and practices have formed the foundation of this research. Overall, Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ understandings of change provide a holistic, multi-causal, and multi-scalar complex picture of the relations between the humans and the environment, entangling ecological observations with socio-economic, cultural and political critiques.