Recommended Readings

  1. Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee. “Offerings from the Rivers to the Mountains: Mist and Fog as Connecting Life Force in the Sikkimese Himalayas.” In Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic, 121–137. London: Routledge, 2023.

  2. Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee. “Purifying Multispecies Relations in the Valley of Abundance: The Riwo Sangchö Ritual as Environmental History and Ethics in Sikkim.” MaVCor Journal 5, no. 2 (2021): 1–26.

  3. Caine, Allison. “Herding at the Edges: Climate Change and Animal Restlessness in the Peruvian Andes.” Ethnos 89, no. 5 (2024): 827–847.

  4. Chakraborty, Ritodhi, and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa. “From Climate Adaptation to Climate Justice: Critical Reflections on the IPCC and Himalayan Climate Knowledges.” Climatic Change 167, no. 3 (2021): 49.

  5. Chakraborty, Ritodhi, Mabel D. Gergan, Pasang Y. Sherpa, and Costanza Rampini. “A Plural Climate Studies Framework for the Himalayas.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 51 (2021): 42–54.

  6. Gurung, Phurwa. “Governing Caterpillar Fungus: Participatory Conservation as State-Making, Territorialization, and Dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6, no. 3 (2023): 1745–1766.

  7. Ingty, Tenzing. “High Mountain Communities and Climate Change: Adaptation, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Institutions.” Climatic Change 145, no. 1 (2017): 41–55.

  8. Mercer, Harriet, and Thomas Simpson. “Imperialism, Colonialism, and Climate Change Science.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 14, no. 6 (2023): e851.

  9. Nyima, Yonten, and Kelly A. Hopping. “Tibetan Lake Expansion from a Pastoral Perspective: Local Observations and Coping Strategies for a Changing Environment.” Society & Natural Resources 32, no. 9 (2019): 965–982.

  10. Sherpa, Pasang Yangjee. “Ecologics of Care: Sherpa Offering for Collective Survival on a Warming Planet.” Talk given at Columbia University, November 8, 2024.

  11. Sherpa, Pasang Yangjee. “Relevance of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report to Indigenous Lived Realities.” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 21, no. 3 (2025): 463–471.

  12. Stein, S., C. Ahenakew, W. Valley, P. Y. Sherpa, E. Crowson, T. Robin, W. Mendes, and S. Evans. “Toward More Ethical Engagements between Western and Indigenous Sciences.” FACETS 9 (2024): 1–14.

  13. Whyte, Kyle. “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene.” English Language Notes 55, no. 1 (2017): 153–162.

  14. Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Indigenous Realism and Climate Change.” In Climate Realism, 69–81. London: Routledge, 2020.

  15. Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Time as Kinship.” In The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, 39–55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

  16. Wilder, Benjamin T., Carolyn O'meara, Laurie Monti, and Gary Paul Nabhan. "The importance of indigenous knowledge in curbing the loss of language and biodiversity." BioScience 66, no. 6 (2016): 499-509.

  17. Yeh, Emily T., and Gaerrang. "Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau." cultural geographies 28, no. 3 (2021): 461-478.

  18. Yeh, Emily T., Leah H. Samberg, Gaerrang, Emily Volkmar, and Richard B. Harris. “Pastoralist Decision-Making on the Tibetan Plateau.” Human Ecology 45, no. 3 (2017): 333–343.

  19. Zeren, Gongbu, Jing Tan, Qian Zhang, and Bading Qiuying. “Rebuilding Rural Community Cooperative Institutions and Their Role in Herder Adaptation to Climate Change.” Climate Policy 23, no. 4 (2023): 522–537.