Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Abstract

In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

Effects of plant density on the aboveground dry matter and radiation-use efficiency of field corn

“…Under the influence of global climate change, the probability of extreme weather increases. High temperature and concentrated precipitation will affect the growth and development of maize and inevitably lead to reductions in yield [ 7 , 8 ]. Therefore, there is an urgent need for information on maize growth and environmental weather [ 9 , 10 ].…”

Infrastructure and SDG localization: the 21st century mandate

“…The reality that there is neither a universal set of policy problems and contexts nor a single way of understanding and approaching them undermines the promotion of totalizing narratives about problem characteristics and solutions. Relatedly, there exists an academic literature citing indigenous wisdom as a largely marginalized perspective for addressing what the mainstream community labels 'sustainability challenges' (Bayrak et al 2021, Hendry 2014, Santha et al 2010. This literature implicitly questions global policy visions by recognizing the experiences and perspectives of localities in their diverse multitudes.…”

Conducting an Evaluation Framework of Importance-Performance Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in a Rural Area

“…The forestry companies understand that the government sector will recognize certified forestlands as a symbol of good forestry practice using FSC guidelines [65,73]. Forest certification is an ongoing process in Taiwan, with a primary focus on logging and bamboo cutting [65], while the evaluation of workers' and indigenous peoples' rights [74][75][76][77], community relations [72,78], environmental values, and conservation values [62,[78][79][80], are all lacking.…”