The IPCCA Conceptual Framework
The IPCCA CF has two goals:
- To provide the overall vision for assessing the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples and building response strategies.
- To be useful as a practical tool to guide local and global assessments and provide common language for synthesis of results.
The underlying principles are based on an indigenous worldview of human populations, their collective practices and institutions as interconnected with nature, ecosystems and all species.
- Buen vivir encompasses all the elements required to live well while maintaining a meaningful reciprocal relationship between the parts of the holistic, interconnected living world.
- Indigenous resilience is a measure of the ability of the holistic system of humans in nature to support and enhance buen vivir, while faced with uncertainty and change.
- Climate change is the result of direct and indirect drivers in the form of local, national and global processes. The recognized unique situation of indigenous peoples and their holistic worldview requires attention to drivers that are of particular importance to the impacts on local indigenous resilience and buen vivir.
- The local, national and global processes that are direct and indirect drivers of climate change interact with elements of indigenous resilience and buen vivir in biocultural systems across time and space, within a complex, interconnected multi-scalar world.
Conceptual Framework Diagram
The direct and indirect drivers of climate change impact the buen vivir and indigenous resilience that together form a holistic biocultural system. Examples of the key elements that work towards indigenous resilience and buen vivir, as well as the processes and trends considered to be drivers are included as guidelines for local assessment partners.
The arrows connecting direct and indirect drivers with indigenous buen vivir/resilience show interactions across time and space, providing a means for conceptualizing how processes on multiple scales and with different time-space distributions interact with elements of the Biocultural system. All arrows are double headed, indicating the mutual relationship between processes and elements of the Biocultural system.