Small islands have received growing attention in the context of climate change. Rising sea-levels, intensifying storms, changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures force islanders to deal with and adapt to a changing climate. How do they respond to the challenge? What works, what doesn’t – and why? The present volume addresses these questions by exploring adaptation experiences in small islands across the world’s oceans from various perspectives and disciplines, including geography, anthropology, political science, psychology, and philosophy. The contributions to the volume focus on political and financial difficulties of climate change governance; highlight the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and perceptions in and for adaptation; and question to what extent mobility and migration constitute sustainable adaptation. Overall, the contributions highlight the diversity of island contexts, but also their specific challenges; they present valuable lessons for both adaptation success and failure, and emphasise island resilience and agency in the face of climate change.
Publikationstyp: Sammelband
Sparte: Universitätsverlag
Sprache: Englisch
Beiträge
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1. Dealing with Climate Change on Small Islands: Towards Effective and Sustainable Adaptation? (Seiten 1-15)
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2. Failing adaptation in island contexts: the growing need for transformational change (Seiten 19-44)
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3. Contrasting potential for nature-based solutions to enhance coastal protection services in atoll islands (Seiten 45-75)
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4. Distributing scarce adaptation finance across SIDS: effectiveness, not efficiency (Seiten 77-100)
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5. Sustainable development and climate change adaptation: goal interlinkages and the case SIDS (Seiten 101-122)
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6. Adaptation planning in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: a literature review (Seiten 123-140)
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7. Comparing perceptions of climate-related environmental changes for Tuvalu, Samoa, and Tonga (Seiten 143-174)
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8. From apathy to agency: exploring religious responses to climate change in the Pacific Island region (Seiten 175-194)
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9. Climate change and livelihood practices in Vanuatu (Seiten 195-216)
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10. Extreme weather events in Small Island Developing States: barriers to climate change adaptation among coastal communities in a remote island of Fiji (Seiten 217-247)
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11. Climate change displacement: towards ontological security (Seiten 251-267)
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12. Moving to dangerous places (Seiten 267-293)
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13. Adaptation and the question of migration: directions in dealing with climate change in Kiribati (Seiten 293-313)
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14. Climate-induced migration in Lotofaga village in Samoa (Seiten 313-337)