Climate change on three Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands: Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

Rasmussen, Kjeld; May, Wilhelm; Birk, Thomas; Mataki, Melchior; Mertz, Ole; Yee, Douglas

doi:10.1080/00167223.2009.10649592

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“…The impacts of climate change are uncertain, but are likely to include changing rainfall patterns and temperature, sea level rise, acidification of the oceans; and increased extreme weather events (Guinotte and Fabry, 2008;IPPC, 2007;McAdoo et al, 2009;McLeod et al, 2010;Rasmussen et al, 2009;The Royal Society, 2005). These will impact food security, land availability, and frequency and intensity of natural disasters (MEA, 2005).…”

Section: Trajectories Of Changementioning

confidence: 98%

Maladaptive trajectories of change in Makira, Solomon Islands

Fazey

Pettorelli

Kenter

et al. 2011

Global Environmental Change

114

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Section: Trajectories Of Changementioning

confidence: 98%

Maladaptive trajectories of change in Makira, Solomon Islands

Fazey

Pettorelli

Kenter

et al. 2011

Global Environmental Change

114

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“…Mobility becomes even more pertinent in an island setting as it is an adaptive strategy (Rasmussen et al, 2009). Changes in each type of mobility, as well as the interplay between them, reinforce old and create new gendered practices.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

Phudoma¹

2018

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ABSTRACT:In recent years island communities have actively adapted in response to a complex combination of changes that has shaped life on the islands, and this has had gendered consequences. The gender ramifications of adaptation on islands are still largely neglected in adaptation policies, although they are increasingly being addressed in the scientific literature. Understanding gendered consequences is indispensable for a critical comprehension of adaptation on islands. It would help avoid the formulation of adaptation policies that tend to focus only on technical problems and solutions. Such solutions potentially run the risk of reducing island problems to only biophysical issues such as sea level rise or problems attributed to the size and isolation of the islands. This paper investigates the consequences of adaptation for the mobility of both women and men on two islands in the Maldives, a small island developing state (SIDS) that has experienced unprecedented changes in recent decades. The focus on mobility stems from the fact that it forms an integral social and cultural part of island life. Although gender and mobility are intrinsically linked, the gendered consequences of adaptation for mobility are understudied. This study used qualitative interviews to collect narratives. The results show that the adaptation interviewees describe from their living memory has only exacerbated gender inequality by influencing the mobility of men and women in different ways.

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“…Time series data are too limited to give more than localized indications of the extent of any increased periodicity and severity, and in the Pacific region no significant trends in either the number of cyclones or their intensity were evident from 1981 to 2007 (abm and csiro 2011). There have been indications that cyclones are becoming more intense (Webster et al 2005;Elsner, Kossin, and Jagger 2008;Rasmussen et al 2009;Walsh, McInnes, and McBride 2012), perhaps because of the increased intensity of enso events. However, the possibility and impact of changing patterns and intensity are uncertain, and, in the Pacific, "owing to their small land masses and widely dispersed nature within a vast expanse of ocean, whether or not individual .…”

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“…Cyclones are frequent in much of the Pacific, other than extremely close to the equator, although cyclonic activity has become more common there (Rasmussen et al 2009). Climate change is expected to result in fewer cyclones but greater individual intensity.…”

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Vulnerable Islands: Climate Change, Tectonic Change, and Changing Livelihoods in the Western Pacific

Connell¹

2015

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Small Pacific islands, especially atolls, have been widely argued to be in the forefront of climate change. Recent degradation of island environments has primarily been attributed to the impact of sea-level rise. However, physical changes to several small islands can be linked to a range of physical influences and to human modification. La Niña events, cyclones, and wind waves have caused localized flooding and storm damage. Most atoll islands have not significantly changed in size, as deposition balances erosion. Many islands have experienced broadly similar environmental problems in earlier times, at different scales, and over different time periods, now accentuated by human pressures on scarce land areas and resources. Local human factors (including construction and mining), tectonic subsidence, and La Niña events have created some iconic sites that have become symbols of sea-level rise, sometimes erroneously attributed solely to global warming. Limited economic prospects in most small islands, rising expectations, and growing populations have contributed to a culture of migration, marked by international migration and urbanization, that has diversified impoverished livelihoods, extended island geographies, and resulted in accentuated population concentrations. Contemporary climate change exacerbates present environmental changes, stimulates further migration, and points to diasporic futures.

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Climate change on three Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands: Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Maladaptive trajectories of change in Makira, Solomon Islands

Maladaptive trajectories of change in Makira, Solomon Islands

Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

Vulnerable Islands: Climate Change, Tectonic Change, and Changing Livelihoods in the Western Pacific

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