ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the need to incorporate cultural perspectives about weather and climate into global-national-local climate change policy. The definition of adaptation adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is used in most texts or programmes on adaptation to climate change. Political and cultural dimensions are therefore necessary in order to rethink the strategies around adaptation from the institutional point of view. Cultural dimension is necessary to analyse alternative knowledge, practices, perceptions, and representations associated with climate change in order to create proposals capable of reconfiguring current adaptation strategies. Cultural knowledge around climate is based upon practices and experiences expressed through several cultural indicators, which are centred on some aspects of human and non-human beings in entangled relations. Processes and politics connected to climate change transform and reconfigure indigenous peoples' territorial, cultural, identity and relationships with non-humans, as well as economic dynamics.
