In northern Canada, a fusion of leading-edge Western science and IK on permafrost informed the co-development of predictive decision- support tools and risk management strategies to inventory and manage permafrost and adapt to permafrost thaw . Permafrost thaw in the Dehcho region of Canada is widespread and occurring at unprecedented rates . The Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost  aims to improve the understanding of and ability to predict and adapt to permafrost thaw3. DCoP's collaborative approach, which places Indigenous Peoples in leadership positions, generates the new knowledge, predictive capacity and decision-support tools to manage natural resources that support Indigenous Dene Peoples' ways of life. Indigenous-academic partnerships can enhance climate- change adaptation and mitigation capacity, and provide openings for more holistic co-management approaches that recognise and affirm the central role of Indigenous Peoples as stewards of their ancestral territories, especially as they face accelerating climate-change impacts. Academic researchers and their Indigenous partners can support climate-change resilience via mobilising IK in stewardship and adaptation; researching governance arrangements, economic relationships and other factors that hinder Indigenous efforts in these areas; proposing evidence-based policy solutions at international and national scales; and outlining culturally relevant tools for assessing vulnerability and building capacity will also support climate-change resilience. Such IK underpins successful climate-change adaptation and mitigation  . The inclusion of IK in adaptation and mitigation not only supports Indigenous cultural survival but also enables governments to recognise the territorial sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples.
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