Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu

Lindstrom, Lamont

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“…Many of the tribes on the island live in traditional housing in village-based systems. Tanna is a stronghold of Kastom 1 -a place where people still know traditional songs, can trace their lineage, and participate in rituals, community decision-making processes and ceremonies (Lindstrom, 2011). However, common to many Pacific islands, customary practices are eroding under the influence of "Western" economic systems and philosophical traditions 2 (Brosi et al, 2007;.…”

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“…This has implications for data capture methods in future research into the ESV in SIDS and least developed countries and perhaps suggests that discursive elicitation techniques should be used in parallel to traditional valuation methods to better capture social and shared benefits provided by the different ES types (Jacobs et al, 2016;Kenter et al, 2011Kenter et al, , 2016. For example, the value of the Tanna reef fishery is not simply a function of the catch rate but also an outcome of an understanding of the role of cultural relations within and between tribes and their relationship with Kastom natural resource management (Foale et al, 2011;Lindstrom, 2011;Stoeckl et al, 2018).…”

Section: Incorporating Kastom Conceptions Of Essmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges and Sensitivities in Assessing Total Ecosystem Service Values: Lessons From Vanuatu for the Pacific

Buckwell

Fleming

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The Journal of Environment & Development

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Ecosystem service valuation (ESV) can inform land-use change policy and adaptation responses to climate change in Pacific Small Island Developing States. Despite Small Island Developing States communities relying acutely and directly on ecosystem service (ES) flows, methodologies must contend with limited valuation data and challenges. We undertake ESV to generate coefficients we then apply to mapped habitat extents for Vanuatu. We find the contribution of ESs to the people of Vanuatu is considerable and significantly larger than its gross domestic product. Therefore, policies that support ecologically sustainable exploitation of ESs are paramount in promoting community well-being. We also identify and discuss context-specific methodological challenges, which, if not addressed, risk distorting valuations, supporting perverse policy responses, and eroding confidence in ESV. We make recommendations to address the challenges of accounting for ecosystem condition, data gaps, and consideration of customary benefits, provide context to the interpretation of our results, and suggest where further research can ameliorate risks.

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Section: Incorporating Kastom Conceptions Of Essmentioning

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Challenges and Sensitivities in Assessing Total Ecosystem Service Values: Lessons From Vanuatu for the Pacific

Buckwell

Fleming

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The Journal of Environment & Development

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“…Beyond passing on certain privileges, there is evidence that chiefly titles involved to some extent the Oceanic 'Heroic I'. Those who hold a title lay claim not only to their own achievements, but those of every previous holder of that title (Lindstrom 2011). …”

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“…The great variety of furniture in the house is also notable, especially as that would not normally preserve archaeologically. The inclusion of a clock is significant as it shows the introduction of a Western means of keeping time, in contrast to the way time was marked under kastom (Bonnemaison 1994: 56;Lindstrom 2011). Further, the presence of a barometer in the house reflects the global spread of scientific instruments, and the growing interest in meteorological phenomena at this point.…”

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An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu

Flexner¹

2016

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terra australis 44Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.

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Assessing how ecosystem-based adaptations to climate change influence community wellbeing: a Vanuatu case study

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Climate change poses significant threats to wellbeing and livelihoods of people and the ecosystems in many Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Adaptation solutions must counteract these threats while also supporting development in vulnerable SIDS. Suitable options need to ensure that connections between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of socio-economic systems are defined in a way that can support how decisions are made (and by whom) and how these can impact on other parts of these systems. This is particularly important in many Pacific SIDS, where communities practice customary natural resource management and continue to rely on local natural resources. In this study, we model the anticipated impacts of climate change and the benefits of the ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches on community wellbeing in Vanuatu. To do this, we applied participatory and expert elicitation methods to develop a Bayesian Network model, which was designed to evaluate community wellbeing responses at four explicit spatial scales. The model includes both acute and chronic impacts of climate change, the impact of coral bleaching and the potential loss of Vanuatu's fringing coral reefs. The model predicts that all proposed EbA interventions will have a positive impact on wellbeing in all four locations to some degree, ManuscriptClick here to view linked References by either directly improving the integrity of Vanuatu's ecosystems, or by protecting these ecosystems as a positive spill-over of related actions. Significantly, it also predicts that if climate change exceeds 1.5 oC of warming, the costs of achieving the same level of wellbeing are increased.

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Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu

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Challenges and Sensitivities in Assessing Total Ecosystem Service Values: Lessons From Vanuatu for the Pacific

Challenges and Sensitivities in Assessing Total Ecosystem Service Values: Lessons From Vanuatu for the Pacific

An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu

Assessing how ecosystem-based adaptations to climate change influence community wellbeing: a Vanuatu case study

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