Small island perspectives on climate change

Walshe, Rory; Stancioff, Charlotte Eloise

doi:10.24043/isj.56

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“…A significant new focus in climate change research as a whole surrounds questions about risk perceptions. Climate change is projected to play a role in altering risk patterns on a global scale both by enhancing the impacts and intensity of long established exposure events as well as creating new patterns of risk exposure for individuals, groups and business enterprises that formerly may not have considered themselves at risk (Dessai & Sims, 2010: Capstick et al, 2015Helm et al, 2018: Walshe & Stancioff, 2018. Climate change based risk perceptions are significant because of the manner in which they represent a subjective element of decision-making processes and as such can stall or constrain vital actions needed to reduce risk (Leiserowitz, 2005).…”

Section: Tourism and Climate Change Perceptionsmentioning

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Urban tourism and climate change: Risk perceptions of business tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa

Pandy¹

2019

Urbani Izziv

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The nexus of climate change and cities is acknowledged as of growing importance for inter-disciplinary research. In this article the focus is upon the perceptions of climate change and responses by tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa’s leading city and major tourism destination. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews with 30 tourism stakeholders an analysis is undertaken of the risk perceptions of climate change. Overall the results suggest a major disconnect between the climate change threats as openly recognised by Johannesburg city authorities and of the risk perceptions as revealed by local tourism stakeholders. The predominant view articulated by tourism industry stakeholders is that climate change responses and associated sustainability initiatives are something of a ‘nice to have’ rather than a necessity given current the current state of awareness and of climate change risk perceptions by businesses.

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Section: Tourism and Climate Change Perceptionsmentioning

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Urban tourism and climate change: Risk perceptions of business tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa

Pandy¹

2019

Urbani Izziv

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“…In order to tackle this urgent and extremely complex and important task, the first step is to gain a better insight into the influence of recent climate changes, first and foremost global warming processes. It should be noted that each island has different climate changes, which differently influence their landscape and socioeconomic structure (Méheux et al, 2007;Walshe and Stancioff, 2018). This paper examines the temperature and precipitation development in the 1948-2018 period on the island of Lastovo.…”

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Air temperature and precipitation analyses on a small Mediterranean island: the case of the remote island of Lastovo (Adriatic Sea, Croatia)

Bonacci

2019

Acta Hydrotechnica

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The paper analyses a series of annual, monthly, and daily air temperatures, and annual and monthly precipitation at the Lastovo meteorological station on the island of Lastovo (Croatia) during the 1948-2018 period. The small carbonate Adriatic island of Lastovo is the most remote inhabited island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. The absolute minimum annual air temperatures range between -6.8 °C (recorded in 1963) and 4.0 °C (recorded in 1974), with an average value of -1.2 °C. The Mean annual air temperatures range between 14.7 °C (recorded in 1980) and 17.4 °C (recorded in 2018), with an average value of 15.8 °C. The absolute maximum annual air temperatures range between 31.7 °C (recorded in 1959) and 38.3 °C (recorded in 1998), with an average value of 34.8 °C. A strong jump in the minimum annual temperatures started in 1972. The mean annual temperature jump began nine years later in 1981, while the maximum annual temperature jump occurred in 1992. The values of the t-test for all three analysed annual temperature indices (ATI) substantiate the conclusion that the average values in two subperiods defined by the RAPS method are statistically significant at the level p<<0.01. The increasing trend of air temperatures is significantly higher for the time series of the average maximum temperature Tmax than for the time series of the average minimum temperature Tmin. The most prominent increasing trend occurs in June and July. The number of warm and hot days in Lastovo has continuously increased over the analysed period. The increasing trends for both indices are statistically significant at the level p<0.01. The day-to-day (DTD) method established a decrease in the night-time to night-time variability, and an increase in the day-time to day-time temperature variability. The number of frost days is steadily decreasing. The average annual precipitation in the 1948-2018 period was 666 mm, while the minimum and the maximum precipitation was 368 mm and 1089 mm, respectively. No trends have been established for the annual and the monthly precipitation time-series during the 1948-2018 period, though a statistically insignificant drop in annual precipitation is found after 1982.

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“…Most of the published literature on climate resilience has been concerned about mainland coastal areas throughout the world. However, island communities in Bangladesh are not given sufficient attention [89]. This study reviews some research that uses data from coastal mainlands but found hardly any empirical research or secondary review covering issues of island communities in Bangladesh.…”

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Building Coastal Agricultural Resilience in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review of Progress, Gaps and Implications

Kundu

Kabir

Morgan

et al. 2020

Climate

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This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review of climate change adaptation and resilience in coastal agriculture in Bangladesh. It explores the existing adaptation measures against climatic stresses. It investigates the extent of resilience-building by the use of these adaptation measures and identifies major challenges that hinder the adaptation process within the country. The review was conducted by following the systematic methods of the protocol of Preferred Items for Systematic Review Recommendations (PRISMA) to comprehensively synthesize, evaluate and track scientific literature on climate-resilient agriculture in coastal Bangladesh. It considered peer-reviewed English language articles from the databases Scopus, Web of Science and Science Direct between the years 2000 and 2018. A total of 54 articles were selected following the four major steps of a systematic review, i.e., identification, screening, eligibility and inclusion. Adaptation measures identified in the review were grouped into different themes: Agricultural adaptation, alternative livelihoods, infrastructure development, technological advancement, ecosystem management and policy development. The review revealed that within the adaptation and resilience literature for coastal Bangladesh, maladaptation, gender imbalance and the notable absence of studies of island communities were gaps that require future research.

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Small island perspectives on climate change

Cited by 48 publications

References 47 publications

Urban tourism and climate change: Risk perceptions of business tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa

Urban tourism and climate change: Risk perceptions of business tourism stakeholders in Johannesburg, South Africa

Air temperature and precipitation analyses on a small Mediterranean island: the case of the remote island of Lastovo (Adriatic Sea, Croatia)

Building Coastal Agricultural Resilience in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review of Progress, Gaps and Implications

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