Indigenous knowledge, forest landscape modeling, and the cumulative effects of environmental changes.

Boreal landscapes are exposed to climate change, forestry, and other industrial stressors with consequences for Indigenous people's wellbeing and relationship with traditional lands. As a collaborative and transdisciplinary research team including researchers and students from universities, Indigenous communities, and government and non-government organizations, we addressed the consequences of these environmental changes for an Eeyou (Cree) community and an Anishnaabe community in Eastern boreal Canada (Quebec). Our aims were to (1) develop a landscape value model combining qualitative and quantitative data as well as knowledge from Indigenous land-use experts and forest landscape simulations; (2) evaluate the vulnerability of Indigenous landscape values to environmental changes; and (3) assess the relative importance of climate change and forestry as drivers of environmental changes.