Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation

Adger, W. Neil; Barnett, Jon; Brown, Katrina; Marshall, Nadine; O’Brien, Karen

doi:10.1038/nclimate1666

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“…Therefore, the research corroborates the general conclusions from other investigations of the social factors of adaptation (to name a few: Adger et al 2012, Heyd and Brooks 2009, Krüger et al 2015. The data offers an insight into the specific cultural dynamic of adaptation in the Park, which generates a number of lessons for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) policy.…”

Section: Cultural Dynamic Of Adaptationsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Instead, the international community often pursues counter-productive technical top-down policies that neglect the culture of indigenous peoples and their capacity to respond (Tauli-Corpuz and Lynge 2008). Consequently, if adaptation is to be successful for indigenous people it must account for the culture where it is applied (Adger et al 2012). Defining culture is somewhat "messy", however for the sake of this research, it is defined as the attitudes, values, beliefs, narratives and experiences, and the resulting shared behaviours in response to climate change impacts (Krüger et al 2015).…”

Section: Ayni Ayllu Yanantin and Chaninchamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ayni, Ayllu, Yanantin and Chanincha: The Cultural Values Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change in Communities of the Potato Park, in the Peruvian Andes

Walshe

Argumedo²

2016

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

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Section: Cultural Dynamic Of Adaptationsupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Ayni Ayllu Yanantin and Chaninchamentioning

confidence: 99%

Ayni, Ayllu, Yanantin and Chanincha: The Cultural Values Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change in Communities of the Potato Park, in the Peruvian Andes

Walshe

Argumedo²

2016

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

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“…Economic investment in the developing world is increasingly focused on Bsustainability,^which requires understanding how past human societies adapted to climate change to maximize resilience and risk spreading in an increasingly precarious ecological landscape (Adger et al 2013;Brooks et al 2009;Dodman and Mitlin 2013). If not contextualized within the broader scope of Holocene climate change, temporary shifts in the distribution of monsoon rainfall may be erroneously perceived as a newfound agricultural development opportunity (Brooks et al 2005).…”

Section: Synthesis Of Holocene Human-climate Interactions In the Turkmentioning

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Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya

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Throughout the Holocene, Lake Turkana has been subject to drastic changes in lake levels and the subsistence strategies people employ to survive in this hot and arid region. In this paper, we reconstruct the position of the lake during the Holocene within a paleoclimatic context. Atmospheric forcing mechanisms are discussed in order to contextualize the broader landscape changes occurring in eastern Africa over the last 12,000 years. The Holocene is divided into five primary phases according to changes in the strand-plain evolution, paleoclimate, and human subsistence strategies practiced within the basin. Early Holocene fishing settlements occurred adjacent to high and relatively stable lake levels. A period of high-magnitude oscillations in lake levels Afr Archaeol Rev (2015) ensued after 9,000 years BP and human settlements appear to have been located close to the margins of the lake. Aridification and a final regression in lake levels ensued after 5,000 years BP and human communities were generalized pastoralists-fishers-foragers. During the Late Holocene, lake levels may have dropped below their present position and subsistence strategies appear to have been flexible and occasionally specialized on animal pastoralism. Modern missionary and government outposts have encouraged the construction of permanent settlements in the region, which are heavily dependent on outside resources for their survival. Changes in the physical and cultural environments of the Lake Turkana region have been closely correlated, and understanding the relationship between the two variables remains a vital component of archaeological research.Résumé Tout l'Holocène, le lac Turkana a été soumis à des changements drastiques dans l'altitude des lacs et les stratégies de subsistance des gens utilisent pour survivre dans cette région chaude et aride. Dans cet article, nous reconstruisons la position du lac au cours de l'Holocène dans un contexte paléoclimatique. Mécanismes de forçage atmosphériques sont discutées afin de contextualiser les changements de paysage plus larges qui se produisent en Afrique orientale au cours des 12.000 dernières années. L'Holocène est divisé en cinq phases principales en fonction des changements dans l'évolution altitude du lac, paléoclimats et les stratégies de subsistance humains pratiqués dans le bassin. Premiers établissements de pêche de l'Holocène ont eu lieu à proximité d'altitude d'eau élevés et relativement stables. Une période d'oscillations de grande amplitude dans l'altitude du lac s'ensuit après 9000 années BP et les établissements humains semblent avoir été situé à proximité des marges sur le lac. Aridification et une régression finale du altitude des lacs s'ensuit après 5000 années BP et les communautés humaines sont généralisées éleveurs-pêcheurs-cueilleurs. Au cours de l'Holocène tardif, les altitudes des lacs pourraient avoir chuté en dessous de leur position actuelle et les stratégies de subsistance semblent avoir fait preuve de souplesse et de temps en temps spécialisé sur le pas...

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“…Despite frequent reference to the varying temporal scales at which drivers exert pressure on local systems (Bennett et al, 2016;Adger et al, 2012;Bunce et al, 2010), there has been little empirical research demonstrating how the timescales of different interacting stressors relate to community vulnerability. The role of temporal variation has often been masked by a dependence on different terms, each used to characterize or represent sources of SES change.…”

Section: Understanding Impacts and Responses To Change In Sesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

Kaplan-Hallam¹,

Bennett²,

Satterfield³

2018

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Research on vulnerability and adaptation in social-ecological systems (SES) has largely centered on climate change and associated biophysical stressors. Key implications of this are twofold. First, there has been limited engagement with the impacts of social drivers of change on communities and linked SES. Second, the focus on climate effects often assumes slower drivers of change and fails to differentiate the implications of change occurring at different timescales. This has resulted in a body of SES scholarship that is under-theorized in terms of how communities experience and respond to fast versus slow change. Yet, social and economic processes at global scales increasingly emerge as 'shocks' for local systems, driving rapid and often surprising forms of change distinct from and yet interacting with the impacts of slow, ongoing 'trends'. This research seeks to understand the nature and impacts of social shocks as opposed to or in concert with trends through the lens of a qualitative case study of a coastal community in Mexico, where demand from international seafood markets has spurred rapid development of a sea cucumber fishery. Specifically, we examined what different socialecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and how these processes are affecting system vulnerability, adaptations and adaptive capacity. We begin by proposing a novel framework for conceptualizing impacts on social systems, as comprised of structures, functions, and feedbacks. Our results illustrate how the rapid-onset of this fishery has ecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and in poaching and armed violence have emerged, exacerbating pressures from ongoing trends in immigration, overfishing and tourism development. We argue that there is a need to better understand and differentiate the social and ecological implications of shocks, which present novel challenges for the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities and the sustainability of marine ecosystems.

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Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation

Cited by 1,110 publications

References 74 publications

Ayni, Ayllu, Yanantin and Chanincha: The Cultural Values Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change in Communities of the Potato Park, in the Peruvian Andes

Ayni, Ayllu, Yanantin and Chanincha: The Cultural Values Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change in Communities of the Potato Park, in the Peruvian Andes

Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

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