气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.crm.2021.100336
	Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands
	McNamara K.E.; Westoby R.; Clissold R.; Chandra A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2212-0963
卷号	33
英文摘要	Communities throughout the Pacific Islands region have experienced, and will continue to experience, extensive non-economic loss and damage (NELD) from climate change. Assessments of loss and damage, however, often fall short on their coverage of these non-economic dimensions, which can distort our understanding of climate change impacts, discount the experiences of some and skew future decision-making. This paper explores how stakeholders in the Pacific Islands understand NELD and what they perceive to be the best ways of responding to it. An open-ended questionnaire was used to collect qualitative and quantitative data from representatives from governments, donors and development partners, civil society, intergovernmental organisations, and relevant others. This study found that NELD in the Pacific Islands is understood, perceived and experienced through the lens of intangible values, identity and cultural landscapes, and this is encapsulated by a typology with eight interconnected core dimensions. These eight dimensions include: health and wellbeing, ways of being, future ways of being, cultural sites and sacred places, Indigenous and local knowledge, life sustaining tools, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and connection to land and sea. NELD is complex, entangled and interconnected, thereby significantly undermining entire socio-ecological systems. Moving forward, responding to NELD in the Pacific Islands region will require a comprehensive approach that protects, conserves and restores complex socio-ecological systems, and provides opportunities to work through loss and damage by means of education and training, safeguarding knowledge systems, community activities, cultural connection and maintenance, and strong relationships with land and sea. © 2021 The Author(s)
英文关键词	Climate change; Culture; Identity; Pacific Islands region; Socio-ecological systems
语种	英语
来源期刊	Climate Risk Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256142
作者单位	School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia; Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	McNamara K.E.,Westoby R.,Clissold R.,et al. Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands[J],2021,33.
APA	McNamara K.E.,Westoby R.,Clissold R.,&Chandra A..(2021).Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands.Climate Risk Management,33.
MLA	McNamara K.E.,et al."Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands".Climate Risk Management 33(2021).