Changing Places: Migration's Social and Environmental Consequences

Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses

“…There have been attempts to address social resilience in relation to coastal communities (Adger, 2000), vulnerability of cities (Pelling, 2003) and to patterns of migration (Locke et al, 2000) and work has been inspired by the adaptive cycle and the panarchy to understand management institutions and theories of social change (Holling and Sanderson, 1996;Westley, 2002), famine and assessment of vulnerability of food systems (Fraser, 2003;Fraser et al, 2005) and periods of changing and stable relationships between human groups, land degradation and their environments in an archaeological context (van der Leeuw, 2000;Redman and Kinzig, 2003;Delcourt and Delcourt, 2004;Redman, 2005). The interplay between periods of gradual change and periods of rapid change and adaptive capacity to shape change was the focus of the volume ''Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building resilience for complexity and change'' .…”

Collapse and recovery in a remote small island—A tale of adaptive cycles or downward spirals?

“…Drought degraded social and natural capital, arguably cutting the diversity of livelihood responses to future disturbance (Marschke and Berkes, 2006). Migration to MIOM may have been an indicator of breakdown of local social resilience at the lower scale of Rodrigues (Adger, 2000;Locke et al, 2000;Hamilton et al, 2004). Economic subsidisation down-scale from MIOM and donors to Rodrigues may have accentuated Rodrigues failure or inability to selforganise (Abel et al, 2006), and in turn its capacity to adapt to future social-ecological disturbance.…”

Migration from atolls as climate change adaptation: Current practices, barriers and options inSolomonIslands

“…The capacity of individuals, households and communities to adapt is a function of several factors, including their access to financial resources, information, education and health services, social resources, infrastructure and technology (Brooks et al, 2005;Smit and Wandel, 2006;Engle, 2011). Migration can make positive contributions to many of these determinants of adaptive capacity (Locke et al, 2000;Adger et al, 2002;Barnett and Webber, 2009).…”