Liljeblad, JonathanLim, Michelle2021-03-01978-981-13-9064-7http://hdl.handle.net/1885/224575The scale and complexity of the issues posed by the Anthropocene requires resolution through the involvement of science with alternative knowledge systems. Indigenous peoples provide a rich source of alternative knowledge systems. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) offers a way of involving indigenous perspectives into global discourses about the Anthropocene. UPR subjects each UN member state to a periodically scheduled review of its human rights record, but does so by welcoming reports from non-state sources including indigenous peoples. Indigenous use of UPR is welcomed by the UN HRC and encouraged by the International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs. While the UPR is ostensibly a component of the UN human rights system, it has become an inclusive process accommodating human rights issues arising from a broad array of subjects, including environmental problems. This means that the UPR allows indigenous peoples to take local environmental problems to an international level.application/pdfen-AU© 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.IndigenousIndigenous rightsUniversal Periodic ReviewHuman Rights CouncilUnited NationsAnthropocene2019-09-0110.1007/978-981-13-9065-4_132020-11-15