Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south

Galappaththi, Eranga K.; Ford, James D.; Bennett, Elena M.; Berkes, Fikret

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2020.11.009

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“…One possible way to advance and enhance such synergies is to facilitate the process of knowledge co-production and co-learning (Armitage et al, 2011;Hill et al, 2020;Xavier et al, 2018). While such initiatives are widely acknowledged in resilience scholarship and have recently received currency in climate change adaptation literature (Berkes, 2017;Galappaththi et al, 2021;Robinson & Berkes, 2011;,…”

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“…The other crucial place-based attributes for building community resilience are ILK and memory from past disasters Galappaththi et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2018). Such knowledge is longitudinal and emerges at the local level through iterative processes of trial and error, empirical observation, and experimentation .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

Choudhury

Haque

Doberstein

2021

Environmental Science & Policy

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Section: Connections Among Different Societal Levels Of Learning For Drr and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

Choudhury

Haque

Doberstein

2021

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…Case Study 10 Building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stresses Comparing two climate-sensitive small-scale fisheries systems -an Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic and the Coastal-Vedda in Sri Lanka (Galappaththi et al, 2021) -generate eight ways of building resilience in fisheries-dependent indigenous communities to respond and adapt to climate change impacts. Both Inuit and Coastal-Vedda communities are undergoing food system transformations.…”

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The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

2021

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ForewordOur life depends on nature and we contribute to nature through nurturing. This symbiotic relationship is something all of us are beginning to understand more and more.Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge: In this paper, we take "Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge" to denote the cumulative body of knowledge, practices and manifestations maintained and developed by Indigenous Peoples with long histories of interaction with their natural environment. Indigenous contributors to this paper stressed the importance of their traditional knowledge, most of it oral, and how its effective inter-and intragenerational transmission keeps their food systems alive and well functioning.xi Land, natural resources and territories: In this paper, we define land, territories or natural resources according to the terminology agreed at WCIP 2014 ("Land, natural resources and territories of Indigenous Peoples"). These terms encompass not only the land, but also the resources and customary rights over the management of these lands, and therefore carry a different significance.Cosmogony, cosmogonic views and spirituality: In this paper, the term cosmogony is used to refer to the set of spiritual beliefs, rites, religious practices, and customs that inform Indigenous Peoples' views of the ecosystem, nature and the world. Cosmogony is different to cosmology and is the term used by Indigenous Peoples to refer to spiritual principles held by their societies.Living in balance and harmony with nature and Mother Earth: In this paper, living in harmony means in recognition of the interconnectedness and balance with all other beings in nature, respectful of ecosystem-carrying capacities. Indigenous Peoples' holistic view places the interconnectedness and balance amongst all living things (including humans) as fundamental for harmonious and peaceful living. This concept was stressed repeatedly by many of the indigenous experts who contributed to this paper.Food sovereignty: Although Indigenous Peoples understand the definitions of food security and the principle of the Right to Food, Indigenous Peoples insist on the centrality of food sovereignty. Whilst the 1996 definition of food sovereignty agreed by La Via Campesina provides important conceptual framing, Indigenous Peoples tend to emphasise food sovereignty as the right for Indigenous Peoples to choose, to cultivate, and to preserve their food practices and biocultural values.Collective rights and communal or common resources: Indigenous Peoples' traditions of collective rights to lands and resources (through the community, region or state) contrast with dominant models of individual ownership, privatisation and development. In this paper, we define and acknowledge the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples to lands, territories and resources in accordance with the UNDRIP (Articles 3 and 26) and the International Labour Organization's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (no. 169). Biocentrism:The principle of biocentrism is part of the cosmogony of many Indigenous Peop...

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“…More recently, Green et al (2021) conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate how responses to climate, environmental, and social change are influenced by domains of adaptive capacity in SSF of 20 countries, and founded that adaptive responses at the community level only occurred when the community had access to assets, in combination with other domains including diversity and flexibility, learning and knowledge, and natural capital. Galappaththi et al (2021) also analyzed how fisheriesdependent indigenous communities respond and adapt to climate change impacts in Canada and Sri Lanka. The authors found that diversification and co-adaptive capacity were the key common main strategies adopted by artisanal fishers in indigenous communities.…”

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Resilience and Social Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Small-Scale Fisheries

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Small-cale fisheries are important for livelihoods, food security, jobs and income worldwide. However, they face major challenges, including the increasing effects of climate change that pose serious risks to coastal ecosystems and fishing communities. Although scientific research on climate change impacts has increased in recent years, few studies have explored the social impacts on small-scale fisheries. Using Galicia (Spain) as a case study, we investigated individual and household-level adaptive responses to climate change among fishers in three fishing guilds (Cambados, Campelo, and Redondela). Specifically, we estimated the economic vulnerability of shellfishers and assessed the diversity of social adaptive responses used to deal with climate change. Although fishers’ income strongly depends on shellfishing in all studied areas, our findings show that less fishing experience and lower engagement in fisher associations tend to increase the economic vulnerability of the fishers. The fishers’ vulnerability decreases as the size of households increases, while fishers who pay a mortgage and who live in households with fewer active members tend to be more vulnerable. The findings also show that Galician shellfishers have developed a wide range of adaptation strategies to anticipate and respond to climate change impacts, namely harvesting pricier and more abundant species, reducing household expenses and increasing social involvement in shellfishery associations. Although the adaptive strategies have helped Galician fishers to deal with climate change impacts, several threats to the sustainability of shellfisheries remain, such as a decrease in the abundance of key native shellfish species, and a high dependence on public and private aid to ensure reasonable incomes for shellfisheries. These findings are of interest and relevance to other similar small-scale fisheries around the world facing similar climate change challenges.

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Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south

Cited by 33 publications

References 65 publications

Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

Resilience and Social Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Small-Scale Fisheries

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