Adapting to Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: The Problem of Uncertainty

Barnett, Jon

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00022-5

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“…However, there is little consensus about the characteristics and determinants of adaptive capacity at household, community, and national levels Jones et al 2010), because the exploration of adaptive capacity has only just begun (Vincent 2007). At the local level, adaptive capacity can be influenced by infrastructure, community structure and social groups, household structure and composition, knowledge, social capital (such as kinship networks and social support institutions), political influence, power relations, governance structures, managerial ability, and ability or inability to access livelihood assets, especially financial, technological, and information resources (Watts and Bohle 1993;Adams and Mortimore 1997;David 1998;Adger 1999;Handmer et al 1999;Kelly and Adger 2000;Barnett 2001;Yohe and Tol 2002;Wisner et al 2004;Haddad 2005;Ford et al 2006;Smit and Wandel 2006;Tol and Yohe 2007;Vincent 2007;Paavola 2008;Sallu et al 2010). Adaptive capacity is, however, context-specific varying across scales-countries, communities, social groups and households-and over time , and best determined by a given climatic exposure in which a particular system is exposed (Vincent 2007).…”

Section: Indicators Of Vulnerabilitymentioning

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Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh

et al. 2013

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Globally, fisheries support livelihoods of over half a billion people who are exposed to multiple climatic stresses and shocks that affect their capacity to subsist. Yet, only limited research exists on the vulnerability of fisherybased livelihood systems to climate change. We assess the vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change in two coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh. We use a composite index approach to calculate livelihood vulnerability and qualitative methods to understand how exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity measured by sub-indices produce vulnerability. Our results suggest that exposure to floods and cyclones, sensitivity (such as dependence on small-scale marine fisheries for livelihoods), and lack of adaptive capacity in terms of physical, natural, and financial capital and diverse livelihood strategies construe livelihood vulnerability in different ways depending on the context. The most exposed community is not necessarily the most sensitive or least able to adapt because livelihood vulnerability is a result of combined but unequal influences of biophysical and socio-economic characteristics of communities and households. But within a fishing community, where households are similarly exposed, higher sensitivity and lower adaptive capacity combine to create higher vulnerability. Initiatives to reduce livelihood vulnerability should be correspondingly multifaceted.

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Section: Indicators Of Vulnerabilitymentioning

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Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh

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“…To build resilience, flexible and adaptable decision-making processes are required and should be materialized within a governance framework in which multiple groups participate and cooperate in a more decentralized manner [22,65,66]. To enhance resilience, partnership initiatives and collaborative approaches are required to ensure multi-level, multi-sector, and cross-scale networks between actors and agencies that bring these together for mutual benefit [67].…”

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Unpacking Resilience for Adaptation: Incorporating Practitioners’ Experiences through a Transdisciplinary Approach to the Case of Drought in Chile

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Current debate on the implementation of resilience in addressing climatic impacts calls for more pragmatic means of reducing losses. In this study we aimed to generate context-specific knowledge about resilience factors for addressing the impacts of drought, with the expectation that bringing forth experiential knowledge on how impacts were addressed in the past would shed light on what constitutes key resilience factors for practitioners working in urban contexts. The study was carried in three of the largest cities in Chile: Santiago, Concepción, and Valdivia. The analytical framework consists of urban and regional resilience incorporating transdisciplinary approaches applying the Resilience-Wheel tool, combined with participatory methods for the co-production of knowledge and qualitative content analysis of documents and workshops. Results show that key determinants of building resilience to drought were: improving education and access to information, enhancing preparedness, promoting technology transfer, reinforcing organizational linkages and collaboration, decentralizing governance, and encouraging citizen participation. The Resilience-Wheel was useful for navigating the conceptual complexity and diversity of perspectives inherent among social actors. The transdisciplinary approach allowed us to co-produce key knowledge that can be applied to build resilience in future, through a bottom-up approach that bridges the science-policy interface.

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“…Scientific uncertainty about future impacts of climate change has impeded planning for climate change. Decision makers are presented with predictions of imprecise and uncertain magnitude, timing and location, yet are expected to make decisions about allocations of scarce resources (Barnett, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ecological research has identified a number of characteristics that define system resilience, though there is no consensus among experts. These six principles include: homeostasis; the omnivory principle; high flux principle; flatness principle; buffering principle; and redundancy (Barnett, 2001).…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Tropical forests and adaptation to climate change: in search of synergies

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Kanninen²,

Pedroni³

2005

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Adapting to Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: The Problem of Uncertainty

Cited by 367 publications

References 37 publications

Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh

Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh

Unpacking Resilience for Adaptation: Incorporating Practitioners’ Experiences through a Transdisciplinary Approach to the Case of Drought in Chile

Tropical forests and adaptation to climate change: in search of synergies

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