In 2021 I worked with geographer Dr. Martina Angela Caretta (Lund University) and a team of fantastic Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors to put together a Special Issue on Indigenous Knowledge (IK) for water-related climate adaptation, which featured in the journal, Climate and Development.

Our aim was to gather evidence either by Indigenous scholars or scholars collaborating with Indigenous Peoples on climate change adaptation in relation to water-related hazards from across the globe. This Special Issue developed in the context of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC, in which the editors were a Coordinating Lead Author (Caretta) and a Lead Author (Morgan) of the Water chapter. Recognizing the urgent need to include IK in this chapter’s assessment, and well-aware that ‘IK/LK is not ready-made for the IPCC’ (Castán Broto et al., 2019, p. 6), we invited Indigenous contributing authors to participate directly in the IPCC process. We then developed this Special Issue in order to foster further scholarship by IK holders and in collaboration with IK holders and Indigenous Peoples, which could be included in our chapter’s assessment. In this Special Issue, we argue that explicit attention must be paid to water-related adaptation strategies informed by IK and practiced by Indigenous Peoples, as well as to the political and cultural sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples over water rights and use (see also Cameron, 2012; Ford et al., 2016).