Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Mortreux, Colette; Barnett, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.09.006

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“…This underlines the value given to traditional knowledge by indigenous people in Vanuatu and elsewhere, knowledge that they feel they own and which is relevant to their particular situation. In contrast, nonindigenous knowledge may be perceived as alien, particularly when it is communicated in an unfamiliar language and/or uses unfamiliar concepts, and is consequentl y undervalued (Mortreux and Barnett 2009;Nunn 2009a;Lata and Nunn 2011).…”

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Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Walshe

Nunn

2012

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Despite reaching heights of >6 m and destroying a sizeable coastal settlement at the head of Baie Martelli (Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, South Pacific), the 26 November 1999 tsunamis caused only five fatalities from a threatened population of about 300 persons, most of whom fled inland and upslope before the waves struck. This remarkable survival rate is attributed to both indigenous knowledge, largely in the form of kastom knowledge, and information obtained from a video about tsunamis that was shown in the area three weeks earlier. Interviews with 55 persons who experienced this tsunami suggest that indigenous knowledge about tsunami risk and response in Baie Martelli was well known among key members of the community and was probably largely responsible for the appropriate response. Future strategies for disaster risk reduction should involve maintaining such indigenous knowledge in such communities and supplementing this where needed with scientific knowledge filtered through indigenous culture and language.

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Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Walshe

Nunn

2012

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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“…Climate-induced resettlement is viewed widely as a last resort 2,4 . Many citizens of the Pacific island of Tuvalu 6 and of coastal northern Australia 7 , for instance, are loathe to relocate in the face of sea-level rise and mounting cyclone intensity. Many members of displaced communities return to their homes once the immediate threat has passed 2,5 .…”

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“…Government interventions could fail if officials misinterpret or do not appreciate people's perceptions of risk 5,6,8 . The majority of homes built to rehouse flood-threatened communities elsewhere in Mozambique after Cyclone Eline remained empty because planners underestimated locals' resolve and confidence in dealing with floods, as well as farmers' investment in and reliance on agriculture in the flood plains of their home 8 .…”

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Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement

López‐Carr

Marter-Kenyon

2015

Nature

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“…Hence, migration decision-making is always complex and researchers should be careful in establishing any direct relationship between climatic and environmental stressors and migration (Afifi, 2011;Bettini, 2013;Mortreux and Barnett, 2009;Piguet, 2012;Wrathall, 2012). …”

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Migration and global environmental change: methodological lessons from mountain areas of the global South

2015

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Abstract.The relationship between migration and environmental and climatic changes is a crucial yet understudied factor influencing mountain livelihoods in the global South. These livelihoods are often characterized by high prevalence of family farming, widespread dependence on natural resources, and high sensitivity to climatic changes. Except for a limited number of empirical case studies, the literature on migration and global environmental change has not yet moved beyond case study results to address and explain global patterns and specificities of migration in mountain areas of the global South. After an introduction to the topic, the authors present a new synthesis of three field studies combining household surveys, participatory research approach (PRA) tools and key informant interviews in Pakistan, Peru, and Tanzania. This article suggests that the systematic use of transdisciplinary approaches, with a combination of quantitative and qualitative empirical methods, is the key to understanding global migration patterns in rural mountain areas of the global South. The results of our synthesis suggests that survey data should be triangulated with PRA results as well as secondary data in order to build household profiles connecting vulnerability (measured through a multidimensional index) with human mobility patterns. Such profiles can be conducive to better understand the feedback processes between livelihoods and mobility patterns both within each case study and across case studies, helping researchers to draw general lessons.

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Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Cited by 467 publications

References 36 publications

Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement

Migration and global environmental change: methodological lessons from mountain areas of the global South

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