Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands

McNamara, Karen E.; Westoby, Ross; Chandra, Alvin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2020.07.004

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“…Through these findings and previous studies (McNamara et al 2021a , b ), we put forward that biodiversity loss assessments—whether they are standalone or in-built to existing vulnerability assessments—should be a priority research area. Particular attention to the interactions within the socio-ecological system, and flow-on effects to Pasifika wellbeing, livelihoods and culture, among other elements need to be embedded into both biodiversity and ecosystem services assessments as well as research around loss in the Pacific, which is lacking to date (McNamara et al 2021a , b ). These assessments need to incorporate social science expertise, appreciating that biodiversity loss has direct links to other cascading losses that need to be captured and focused on.…”

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“…It showcased “numerous lived experiences with climate-related harm”, such as losses to culture and traditions, physical and mental health, sense of place and social fabric as well as identity and dignity, among others (Tschakert et al 2019 , p. 69). McNamara et al ( 2021a ) conducted a systematic review to understand what was already known about non-economic loss and damage (NELD) (i.e. those irreducible to economic terms) in the Pacific Islands region and concluded that: “[n]on-economic loss and damage induced by climate change in the Pacific Islands region has been reported as fears of cultural loss, deterioration of vital ecosystem services, and dislocation from ancestral lands, among others”.…”

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Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands

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“…Science and policy negotiations on Loss and Damage [2] have evolved at the UNFCCC, with Article 8 of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change explicitly requiring the urgent need to address non-economic loss and damage that often disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations (UNFCCC 2015; McNamara et al 2021). Empirical cases from vulnerable societies illustrate the increasing severity of environmental and climatic impacts on people with likely limits to adapt (Huggel et al 2015; Barnett et al 2015;Mechler and Schinko 2016).…”

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“…NELDs refer to the climate-related losses that cannot be traded easily in the market, are inclusive of both material and non-material losses, and experienced by the most affected by climate change (UNFCCC 2013; Morrisey and Oliver-Smith 2013). NELD impacts reported in the literature to date include elements that cannot be easily economically monetised such as loss of cultural heritage, human health and lives, local knowledge, as well as human displacement and mobility (Barnett et al 2016;McNamara et al 2016McNamara et al , 2021Preston 2017).…”

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Stories of Loss and Healing: Connecting Non-Economic Losses and Damages with Gendered Wellbeing Erosion in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Chandra²,

Ke³

2021

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It is well-known that the climatic impacts affect women and men differently. However, more empirical evidence illustrating how, where, when and who are needed to help address gendered vulnerability. Specifically, research investigating the connections between mental health, wellbeing, and climate change can foster responses to avert, minimise and address loss and damage impacts on vulnerable populations. Few studies explore climate-induced mental health impacts, although this is a crucial area for the conceptual framing of non-economic loss and damage. Declining mental health and wellbeing is at the core of non-economic losses taking place all over the world. The existing literature body recognises the disproportionate environmental impacts on women, this study explores non-economic loss related to mental health and wellbeing for women in the Global South. The article uses empirical storytelling and narratives gathered through field work conducted in Bangladesh, Fiji and Vanuatu. The research findings described how climate change risks and extreme weather events negatively impacts women’s mental health and wellbeing, while providing proactive recommendations to address the gendered mental health consequences of climate change.

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“…As a recent article by Parsons and Nielsen shows, the "subjective positionality and marginality" of individuals play a key role in the relationship between climate and migration because environmental factors are "entangled in a variety of other socioeconomic characteristics and processes, from age to gender to education" (2020,12). As such, even though ethnographic, "cultural" (Farbotko and McMichael 2019;Parsons 2019;McNamara, Westoby, and Chandra 2021) or socio-psychological perspectives (Adams 2016;Koubi et al 2016) have made their way to the field of environmental mobilities, there is still much to explore regarding the importance of individual risk perceptions, positionalities, preferences, and values in mediating the relationship between climate and migration (see Parsons 2019 for a critical review). The relation between populations and their environment is multifaceted and comprised of multiple mundane practices.…”

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This doctoral research in human geography examines the relation between disaster risks and human (im)mobilities through a case study in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains. This work constitutes a longitudinal ethnography of the residents of the Bartang Valley, who live under the threat of environmental hazards such as floods, avalanches, and rockslides. Qualitative methods were implemented, including observations, interviews, mobile methods, autoethnography, and audiovisual methods. The research touches upon issues of post-Soviet transition, livelihood sustainability, environmental hazards, and risk perceptions, and gives insight into everyday activities and spirituality in the Bartang Valley. The work is structured around two main research topics: involuntary immobility induced by physical inaccessibility and voluntary immobility enhanced by place attachment. Hazards impact the state of roads and vehicles and impair rural-urban mobilities, which are essential to the livelihoods of the Bartangi people. The vulnerability of these livelihoods-and of the mobility infrastructure-to environmental hazards is increased by the general level of economic poverty in the Valley. Frequent mobility disruptions reduce the accessibility of the Valley and can lead to involuntary immobility. Despite these risks and low accessibility, place attachment is deep among residents who generally express strong bonds with their valley. Many remain in their villages or return after years spent working in other parts of Tajikistan or in Russia. Most of those who are displaced by destructive hazards choose to stay in the Valley, relocating within or not far from their village. Place attachment, immobility, and adaptive capacity are envisioned as mutually reinforcing phenomena, and the mobility-immobility and voluntary-involuntary continuums are explored in their dynamic and fluctuating dimensions.Taking accessibility, mobility disruptions, and place attachment as core research topics has led to a rather hybrid work at the intersection between studies on the environment-migration nexus, on rural-urban, daily, or circular mobilities, and more classical ethnographic works on rural mountainous communities. At the theoretical level, this work argues for a better integration of concepts of the "mobilities turn" into research on environmental mobilities in order to encompass a wider range of mobility patterns on multiple spatial and time scales, to examine (im)mobility aspirations and potentials, to explore infrastructure and materialities, and to include immobility. Through an analysis of individual place attachment and risk perception, this work also reaffirms the importance of cultural geography for the field of environmental mobilities.

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Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands

Cited by 49 publications

References 54 publications

Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands

Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands

Stories of Loss and Healing: Connecting Non-Economic Losses and Damages with Gendered Wellbeing Erosion in the Asia-Pacific Region

Three essays on economic consequences of new accounting regulation and bank accounting

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