Leveraging endogenous climate resilience: urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Trundle, Alexei; Barth, Bernhard; McEvoy, Darryn

doi:10.1177/0956247818816654

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“…The first governance process I discuss here is the Port Vila Urban Resilience and Climate Action Plan (PVURCAP), which UN-HABITAT is in the process of preparing in collaboration with advisors working for RMIT University in Australia and government agencies in Vanuatu (Trundle, Barth and Mcevoy, 2019). I refer to the PVURCAP as a process rather than a document because it is not yet possible to comment directly on the written report, which is not yet complete and has not yet been made public.…”

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Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article is dedicated to Mr. Wycliff Tarilenga; may he rest in eternal peace. I would like to thank the Elang Etas Community Association and members of the Elang Etas community who have enabled me to write about their experiences. Special thanks go to Sam Tabawa, the late Wycliff Tarilenga, Jenny Sale, Brian Merah, Margaret Seule and Meriam Tabawa-but this is by no means an exhaustive list. Melisa Hango has been my constant friend and colleague and has always been there when I needed her. Thanks also to the following reviewers for their contributions to the article: the Pacific Interest Group (PIG) at the University of Melbourne, including excellent comments by Sergio Jarillo and Monica Minnegal; Sophie Sturup for her language and thoughtfulness; Ihnji Jon for some pointers into the literature; David Week for his excellent suggestions on decolonizing the article; and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh for helping me see past urban studies. Thanks, finally, to the anonymous IJURR reviewers, whose comments markedly improved the article. I am especially grateful to the referee who helped me to summarize my purpose better than I could do it myself. This work was funded in part by the University of Melbourne and the Regional Studies Association. The University of Melbourne provided travel funding, and the RSA funded some of my engagements (workshops and training) with the Elang Etas community as part of a Research Network Grant for the RSA Research Network on Academic-Practitioner Collaboration for Urban Settlements, South Pacific (APCUS-SP). These events built trust between me and the community and helped me to improve my understanding of their work.

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Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The strong emphasis on participation and bottom-up analysis has proven to be extremely valuable as it has enabled local voices to introduce their own perspectives of community vulnerabilities and priority needs, as well as allowing them to be actively involved in the co-design of climate actions and capacity building activities. It has also ensured that the future implementation of local actions will be more cognisant of community-level structures, and hence more likely to be locally 'owned' and sustainable in the longer-term [12,15]. In support of this 'bottom-up' agenda, the project team regularly engages with a range of national and city Government, Non-Government, and local community actors.…”

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Integrating Teaching and Learning with Inter-Disciplinary Action Research in Support of Climate Resilient Urban Development

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The capital cities of the South Pacific are experiencing rapid urbanisation pressures as increasing numbers of people migrate to the primary cities either in search of employment and greater access to healthcare and education, or as a consequence of environmental ‘push’ factors. However, the limited capacity of municipal Governments to respond to the scale and pace of change is leading to a growth of informal settlements in peri-urban locations. Factors of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity combine to make these informal settlements the most vulnerable areas to natural hazards. In response to this critical urban resilience agenda, this paper looks at how participatory action research is providing inter-disciplinary scientific support for the implementation of urban resilience and climate actions in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Adaptation measures involve a combination of hard and soft actions; as well as activities designed to strengthen local capacity to respond to contemporary resilience challenges. Addressing the adaptive capacity component, this paper also highlights the opportunities for Australian universities to integrate teaching and learning with action research to achieve a substantive real-world impact in the Pacific region, as well as illustrating the capacity strengthening benefits that can be achieved through sustained engagement and collaborative partnerships with local organisations.

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“…Focus 5: technologies, methods and measures to promote the sustainability of port cities In port cities, the endogenous climate resilience [77] and new smart technologies [78] could be used to deal with climate change and to manage water. Yigit and Acarkan [79] proposed a new power management method and algorithm for ships using hybrid energy in ports.…”

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Port City Sustainability: A Review of Its Research Trends

2020

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In recent years, with the development of society, the awareness of environmental protection for people has been increasing. While ports promote the economic development and employment levels of port cities, they also have a negative impact on the environment of port cities. The sustainability of port cities is increasingly valued. Port cities face huge challenges, and their sustainability needs to be better understood. The purpose of this article is to review research on the sustainability of port cities. We used content analysis to classify and analyze the existing relevant literature, to learn about the hotspots and deficiencies of past research, and to propose future research directions. We found that port sustainability has become an increasingly important research topic during the past ten years. From the perspective of geographic research areas, European port cities are the hot spots for sustainability research. Regarding research fields, technologies, methods and measures to promote the sustainability of port cities are popular research topics. In terms of research methods, qualitative research plays an important role in the study of port city sustainability. Finally, guidance for future research on port city sustainability is proposed according to the review results.

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Leveraging endogenous climate resilience: urban adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Cited by 43 publications

References 17 publications

Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

Integrating Teaching and Learning with Inter-Disciplinary Action Research in Support of Climate Resilient Urban Development

Port City Sustainability: A Review of Its Research Trends

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