Dam(n) Seawalls: A Case of Climate Change Maladaptation in Fiji

Piggott-McKellar, Annah E.; Nunn, Patrick D.; McNamara, Karen E.; Sekinini, Seci T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40552-6_4

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“…In the studied example, the seawalls also shifted vulnerability to people elsewhere along the coast, because of changes in sediment deposits, and created negative environmental consequences by threatening marine ecosystem health (e.g. Piggott-McKellar et al, 2020). Another study in Bangladesh examined these measures from a gendered perspective, noting that flood control had numerous negative consequences, including eliminating floodplains that had been an important income and food source, and reducing the nutrients in the soils that resulted from the flood water.…”

Section: Infrastructural Maladaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong

2020

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Adapting to climate change is necessary to ensure that the impacts will not overwhelm societies and ecosystems around the world. But planning adaptation is an exercise in uncertainty, and built on imperfect information, many adaptation strategies fail. Some go even further, creating conditions that actually worsen the situation; this is called maladaptation. Aside from wasting time and money, maladaptation is a process through which people become even more vulnerable to climate change. Poor planning is the primary cause of maladaptation, yet the diverse manifestations are complex, and identifying maladaptation in advance with certainty is difficult. Nevertheless, there is now sufficient experience to give an indication of how maladaptation can take place, the contexts that may be more prone to such an outcome, and the design flaws in strategies that need to be avoided. Until adaptation projects directly address the drivers of vulnerability, however, maladaptation will continue to be a risk.

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Section: Infrastructural Maladaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong

2020

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“…But large dams tend to increase flood risk over the long term in a process termed ‘‘risk transference’’ (Etkin 1999 ). Seawalls and infrastructural development along coastlines may also induce changes in water currents, destruction of natural ecosystems, and increased or shifted erosion from protected to unprotected areas (Dahl et al 2017 ; Rahman and Hickey 2019 ; Piggott-Mckellar et al 2020 ; Simon et al 2020 ). Seawalls may effectively reduce impacts to people and assets in the short term but may also result in lock-ins and increase exposure to coastal hazards in the long term unless they are integrated into a long-term climate risk management plan.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Their Linkages with Sustainable Development over the Past 30 Years: A Review

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Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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The severe damage and impacts caused by extreme events in a changing climate will not only make the sustainable development goals difficult to achieve, but also erode the hard-won development gains of the past. This article reviews the major impacts and challenges of disaster and climate change risks on sustainable development, and summarizes the courses and linkages of disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA), and sustainable development over the past 30 years. Our findings show that the conceptual development of DRR actions has gone through three general phases: disaster management in the 1990s, risk management in the 2000s, and resilient management and development in the 2010s. Gradually, CCA has been widely implemented to overcome the adverse effects of climate change. A framework is proposed for tackling climate change and disaster risks in the context of resilient, sustainable development, indicating that CCA is not a subset of DRR while they have similarities and differences in their scope and emphasis. It is crucial to transform governance mechanisms at different levels, so as to integrate CCA and DRR to reduce disaster and climate change risks, and achieve safe growth and a resilient future in the era of the Anthropocene.

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“…Planting trees, and protecting wetlands and other natural carbon sinks can also help absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Adaptation is also important, such as building sea walls to protect coastal areas from sea level rise [52], and finding ways to make crops and infrastructure more resilient to changing weather patterns [53]. The Paris Agreement, which was signed in 2015, aims to prevent climate change by limiting the increase in global temperatures to a minimum of 2 °C beyond pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C [54].…”

Section: Global Climate Change and Public Health Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

A bibliometric analysis on renewable energy's public health benefits

ŞENYAPAR

2023

Journal of Energy Systems

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Renewable energy (RE) is a field in which an increasing number of academic studies are being conducted on multiple dimensions, including technical, economic, political, and social. Wide and varied disciplines conduct research on the processes of making an investment decision in renewable energy, developing, and adopting policies for this purpose, selecting RE suitable for the location, establishing it by taking economic and environmental factors into account, developing energy distribution and storage systems, and supporting regional development. To accurately calculate the installation costs, which are viewed as one of the barriers to a greater use of renewable energy, the co-benefits of RE must be analyzed and transferred to this calculation, and thus to the decision-making processes. Understanding these co-benefits will also facilitate consumer adoption of sustainable energy sources. In addition to economic growth, financial development, employment growth, and regional development, it is crucial to understand the public health benefits of renewable energy. Through bibliometric analysis, which permits the quantification and visualization of qualitative data, the status and development of the literature on the health benefits of RE are examined in this study. The study determined the most researched topics, current issues and trends, and prominent issues in academic studies. The transition to environmentally friendly energies can be accelerated by increasing public awareness of health co-benefits from a more holistic perspective.

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Dam(n) Seawalls: A Case of Climate Change Maladaptation in Fiji

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong

Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong

Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Their Linkages with Sustainable Development over the Past 30 Years: A Review

A bibliometric analysis on renewable energy's public health benefits

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