Book chapter
Adaptation to Climate Change: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives
Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific, pp.499-524
Springer Climate (SPCL), Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020
Abstract
Over the past few decades, attempts at adaptation to climate change (current and future) in the Pacific Islands have largely failed to be either effective or sustained. Among the many reasons for this failure may be that most adaptation strategies have been designed and driven by outsiders rather than by persons familiar with island contexts and diversity, especially the sociocultural nuances of particular situations. In a series of eight thematic case studies, written by scientists with an intimate understanding of the Pacific Islands, this chapter explores the reasons behind adaptation failure and explains what needs to improve in the future for adaptation to be both effective and sustained. Case studies focus on rural seawalls, relocation and peripherality as a proxy for autonomous community coping, climate finance, island food systems, adaptation project design, livelihood sustainability and inter-island resettlement. The goal of this chapter is to inform stakeholders how to optimise outcomes from future adaptation interventions, something that is becoming daily more urgent as the pace of twenty-first century climate change increases.
Details
- Title
- Adaptation to Climate Change: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives
- Authors
- Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastRoger McLean (Author) - University of New South WalesAnnika Dean (Author) - University of New South WalesTeddy Fong (Author) - University of the South Pacific, FijiViliamu Iese (Author) - University of the South Pacific, FijiManasa Katonivualiku (Author) - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ThailandCarola Klock (Author) - SciencePo, FranceIsoa Karovulavula (Author) - University of the South Pacific, FijiRoselyn Kumar (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastTammy Tabe (Author) - University of the South Pacific, Fiji
- Contributors
- Lalit Kumar (Editor)
- Publication details
- Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific, pp.499-524
- Series
- Springer Climate (SPCL)
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-32878-8_14; 10.1007/978-3-030-32878-8
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450846602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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