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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | Social and Cultural Geography | Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Pacific Peoples Environmental Knowledge | Anthropology of Development |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
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Publications
Resisting a 'Doomed' Fate: an analysis of the Pacific Climate Warriors
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Identification of limits and barriers to climate change adaptation: case study of two islands in Torres Strait, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-09-2017
Human mobility and environmental change: a survey of perceptions and policy direction
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-11-2019
Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-12-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2431
Locally led adaptation: Promise, pitfalls, and possibilities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-06-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-023-01884-7
Abstract: Locally led adaptation (LLA) has recently gained importance against top-down planning practices that often exclude the lived realities and priorities of local communities and create injustices at the local level. The promise of LLA is that adaptation would be defined, prioritised, designed, monitored, and evaluated by local communities themselves, enabling a shift in power to local stakeholders, resulting in more effective adaptation interventions. Critical reflections on the intersections of power and justice in LLA are, however, lacking. This article offers a nuanced understanding of the power and justice considerations required to make LLA useful for local communities and institutions, and to resolve the tensions between LLA and other development priorities. It also contributes to a further refinement of LLA methodologies and practices to better realise its promises. Ultimately, we argue that the utility of the LLA framing in promoting climate justice and empowering local actors needs to be tested empirically.
'We didn't want to leave our island': stories of involuntary resettlement from Gaadhoo Island, Maldives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2020
Planning for Community Relocations Due to Climate Change in Fiji
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2015
Solastalgia and the Gendered Nature of Climate Change: An Example from Erub Island, Torres Strait
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2011
DOI: 10.1007/S10393-011-0698-6
Abstract: This communication focuses on respected older womens' ('Aunties') experiences of climate and other environmental change observed on Australia's Erub Island in the Torres Strait. By documenting these experiences, we explore the gendered nature of climate change, and provide new perspectives on how these environmental impacts are experienced, enacted and responded to. The way these adverse changes affect people and places is bound up with numerous constructions of difference, including gender. The responses of the Aunties interviewed to climate change impacts revealed Solastalgia feelings of sadness, worry, fear and distress, along with a declining sense of self, belonging and familiarity.
Ten new insights in climate science 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1017/SUS.2022.17
Abstract: We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action (5) security and climate (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.
Exploring Loss and Damage at the International Climate Change Talks
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-08-2014
Modelling a Tourism Response to Climate Change Using a Four Stage Problem Definition and Response Framework
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United Nations
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-10-2007
The complex decision-making of climate-induced relocation: adaptation and loss and damage
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-12-2016
Climate-Induced Non-Economic Loss and Damage: Understanding Policy Responses, Challenges, and Future Directions in Pacific Small Island Developing States
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-03-2023
DOI: 10.3390/CLI11030074
Abstract: Despite mitigation and adaptation efforts, the residual risks of climate change will continue to impact the most vulnerable communities globally. Highly exposed regions, such as the Pacific Islands, will continue to experience profound negative loss and damage as a result of climate change, which will challenge current ways of life. Knowledge on the extent to which regional and national climate change polices can identify and respond to non-economic loss and damage (NELD) is limited. From the perspectives of stakeholders in the Pacific Islands region, this research aims to gain insights into how regional and national policies are responding to NELD, as the well as the barriers, shortcomings, and requirements for future responses. Utilising a mixed qualitative–quantitative approach, this research explores the perspectives of expert informants, including those from the government, donors and development partners, civil society, intergovernmental organisations, and other relevant bodies, such as universities. The key findings of this study indicate that current policy responses include a regional policy that integrates disaster and climate change losses, national efforts to preserve traditional and local knowledge, national adaptation and resilience planning, community-based projects, and relocation and resettlement. Additionally, NELD is a relatively new concept for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers, and it is difficult to conceptualise the ersity of issues related to NELD in the region. Owing to this poor understanding, a key gap relates to the dominance of the economic lens when characterising climate-induced impacts in the region. As such, there is a limited holistic consideration of climate change impacts, and thus a limited appreciation of the interrelated factors of NELD within policy responses that then cascade towards communities. Finally, the paper outlines key policy insights as follows: policies on integration, adaptation, resilience planning, relocation and resettlement have advanced the economic lens dominates when characterising climate-induced impacts on the region there is a limited appreciation of the interrelated factors of NELD and there exists a need to account for residual and intangible losses to land, culture, traditional knowledge, bio ersity, ecosystem services, and human agency. The insights gained from this research can provide a practical basis for guiding local to regional action and help support and design comprehensive risk management solutions in order to address NELD associated with climate change.
A Study of Climate-Smart Farming Practices and Climate-resiliency Field Schools in Mindanao, the Philippines
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
The challenges of doing development research consulting in the pacific: From pre-departure to fieldwork and back in the office
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1057/DEV.2014.2
Exploring local perspectives on the performance of a community-based adaptation project on Aniwa, Vanuatu
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2020
Fear, grief, hope and action
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-06-2019
Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-10-2021
Voices from the margins: Pacific ambassadors and the geopolitics of marginality at the United Nations
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2009
An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-06-2020
Climate Change, Voluntary Immobility, and Place-Belongingness: Insights from Togoru, Fiji
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-03-2022
DOI: 10.3390/CLI10030046
Abstract: Many low-lying communities around the world are increasingly experiencing coastal hazard risks. As such, climate-related relocation has received significant global attention as an adaptation response. However, emerging cases of populations resisting relocation in preference for remaining in place are emerging. This paper provides an account of residents of Togoru, a low-lying coastal settlement on Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Despite facing significant coastal impacts in the form of coastal erosion, tidal inundation, and saltwater intrusion, Togoru residents are opposing plans for relocation instead opting for in-situ adaptation. We conceptualize place-belongingness to a land and people—through personal, historic and ancestral, relational, cultural, economic, and legal connections—as critical to adaptation and mobility decision-making. We argue that for adaptation strategies to be successful and sustainable, they must acknowledge the values, perspectives, and preferences of local people and account for the tangible and intangible connections to a place.
Future migrations from Tuvalu and Kiribati: exploring government, civil society and donor perceptions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-03-2015
Emotions of the Anthropocene across Oceania
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-2022
Abstract: As human activities have destabilised life on Earth, a new geological era is upon us. While there is a myriad of challenges that have emerged because of such human-driven planetary changes, one area of investigation that requires ongoing scholarly attention and scientific debate is the emotions of the Anthropocene. The emotional, mental, and psychological burdens induced by rapid and unprecedented change must be understood to better reflect the experiences of people around the globe and to initiate conversations about how emotions may be used for transformative change and effective politics. This paper aims to provide insights into the types of emotions that are emerging in Oceania as the Anthropocene unfolds. To do this, we draw on several data sets: questionnaire results with visitors of Mt Barney Lodge in the World Heritage Gondwana area in Queensland, Australia another questionnaire with Pacific Island “experts” engaged in climate change, development, and disaster risk management work interviews with locals living in the Cook Islands and various spoken, written, and visual art from the Pacific. Bringing these data sets together allows us to explore a ersity of experiences, perspectives, and emotional responses to the Anthropocene from participants across Oceania. We found that acute and slow-onset weather events, experiences of direct loss and change, a perceived lack of agency or control over futures, and a sense of injustice triggered emotions including fear, stress, anxiety, exhaustion, sadness, grief, anger, frustration, helplessness, worry, but also empowerment. These results are critical for the first step of acknowledging and naming the emotions that are emerging in Oceania, such that they can then be worked through, and may be used for transformative change, effective politics, and agency over futures.
Coping with extreme weather: Communities in Fiji and Vanuatu share their experiences and knowledge
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-01-2014
How Pacifika Arts Reveal Interconnected Losses for People and Place in a Changing Climate
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-04-2023
DOI: 10.3390/LAND12040925
Abstract: The loss and damage transpiring because of anthropogenic climate change is a confronting reality, especially for frontline communities of the Pacific Islands. Understandings and assessments of loss and damage often fall short on coverage of intangible and noneconomic dimensions, such as losses to culture, place, Indigenous knowledge, and bio ersity, among others. In responding to this knowledge deficit, this paper turns its attention to the burgeoning Pacifika arts community because creative and cultural expressions have been critical avenues for sharing experiences, navigating loss, and exploring grief throughout history, including in the context of climate-driven loss. We analyse a series of Pacifika spoken, written, and visual items (n = 44), including visual art, poetry, song, film, documentary, and theatre, to identify the key categories and themes of noneconomic loss and damage (NELD) that emerge, better understand their nature, indicate their levels of prominence, reflect on them in relation to existing NELD frameworks and categories, and identify strategies for processing and coping. Our findings add to existing understandings of losses to territory, cultural heritage, human mobility, and health while also putting forward identity and agency as additional prominent NELD types. We emphasise that loss occurs within an interconnected and complex system that is centred on the critical relationships between people and their land, and greater attention must be paid to this interconnectivity as the foundation of identity and wellbeing. These perspectives enable stakeholders to better integrate experiences of NELD into future planning efforts so that they are not skewed (i.e., considering only economic loss and damage) or discounting people’s experiences. This will be critical for holistically building greater resilience and for communication in international fora and climate negotiations.
Ways of healing in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-02-2021
Gendered vulnerabilities of smallholder farmers to climate change in conflict-prone areas: A case study from Mindanao, Philippines
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Climate Change and Tourism Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Taking stock of community-based climate-change adaptation projects in the Pacific
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-11-2013
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12033
Relocation planning must address voluntary immobility
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2020
Using participatory action research to share knowledge of the local environment and climate change: Case study of Erub Island, Torres Strait
Publisher: The University of Queensland
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.1375/AJIE.40.30
Abstract: Reading seasons and environments has been a long-held practice for Torres Strait Islanders through their close relationships with their islands and seas. This research project worked with elders on Erub (Darnley) Island, in the eastern group of islands in the Torres Strait, to document and synthesise their knowledge of seasonal patterns and indicators, and climate change. This knowledge varied from details on the migration and nesting patterns of the main totem birds, to the movement of the Tagai star constellation, to the onset of wind patterns indicating certain planting or fishing cycles. The importance of documenting and transferring such knowledge is that it continues the task of generating interest among the younger generation to ‘read’ their landscape, which is especially pertinent given the projected impacts of climate change. The ability of islanders to identify indicators and ‘read’ their country is an important tool in monitoring and adapting to environmental change, as well as maintaining culture, livelihoods and environment. This article outlines this knowledge, and documents the process of utilising this knowledge to develop a seasonal calendar, which was also transposed into a larger mural at the local primary school. The school children were involved in assembling the mural, and its contents will now form part of the teaching curriculum. It is hoped that by documenting and sharing such knowledge, younger generations can see its value, for instance in monitoring the impacts of environmental change, and in turn it will be valued by them.
Planning Nature-based Hiking Trails in a Tropical Rainforest Setting
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
The irony of tourism: visitor reflections of their impacts on Australia's World Heritage rainforest
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
A Framework for Disaster Vulnerability in a Small Island in the Southwest Pacific: A Case Study of Emae Island, Vanuatu
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-10-2017
Reading, learning and enacting: interpretation at visitor sites in the Wet Tropics rainforest of Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2010
From community-based to locally led adaptation: Evidence from Vanuatu
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-11-2020
Community-based climate change adaptation: a review of academic literature
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2017
The need to reinterpret “community” for climate change adaptation: a case study of Pele Island, Vanuatu
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2016
Turning to Nature to Process the Emotional Toll of Nature's Destruction
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 29-06-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU14137948
Abstract: As challenges emerge in the context of the Anthropocene, one often overlooked area is the emotional toll that the Earth’s destabilisation has on the human psyche. Deeper investigation into perceived “negative” emotions of the Anthropocene requires closer attention if those in highly industrialised societies, as the major contributors to the climate crisis, are to avoid collective denial and move towards transformative change. This paper aims to provide insights into these “negative” emotions that are emerging in Australia in response to changes to the biosphere and the destruction of nature, including sadness, grief, anger, frustration, and anxiety. As a way of processing these “negative” emotions, the authors find that connecting with, and being in, nature is critical. Such connection allows people to cope, renew, and heal. In this way, nature is both the trigger for, and answer to, our ecological grief, anger, and anxiety, and, as such, is at the epicentre of human emotions in the context of the Anthropocene.
A typology of solo independent women travellers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2009
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.751
Moving People in a Changing Climate: Lessons from Two Case Studies in Fiji
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 29-04-2019
Abstract: High levels of vulnerability to climate change impacts are rendering some places uninhabitable. In Fiji, four communities have already initiated or completed the task of moving their homes and livelihoods to less exposed locations, with numerous more communities earmarked for future relocation. This paper documents people’s lived experiences in two relocated communities in Fiji—Denimanu and Vunidogoloa villages—and assesses the outcomes of the relocations on those directly affected. This study in particular seeks to identify to what extent livelihoods have been either positively or negatively affected by relocation, and whether these relocations have successfully reduced exposure to climate-related hazards. This study shows that planned climate-induced relocations have the potential to improve the livelihoods of affected communities, yet if these relocations are not managed and undertaken carefully, they can lead to unintended negative impacts, including exposure to other hazards. We find that inclusive community involvement in the planning process, regular and intentional monitoring and evaluation, and improving livelihoods through targeted livelihood planning should be accounted for in future relocations to ensure outcomes are beneficial and sustainable.
Experiencing ‘natural’ heritage
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
International student mobility: Pacific Islander experiences of higher education in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2022
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12342
Abstract: Tertiary education scholarships for in idual students from developing countries, including those in the Pacific Islands, are a key pillar of Australia's development policy. Understanding students' experiences of these scholarships are important in identifying both positives and challenges, which can help foster improved future opportunities. This is especially the case for Pacific Islander students engaging in the Australia Awards Scholarship programme for which there is limited understanding of experiences. As such, this paper identifies that although educational mobility programmes can offer a wealth of opportunities for students, the COVID‐19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges of such programmes which can inhibit students from reaching their full potential. Educational mobility programmes that effectively address the needs of students and empower them to achieve their goals are required to better facilitate transformative development pathways for Australia's Pacific Island neighbours.
How might adaptation to climate change by smallholder farming communities contribute to climate change mitigation outcomes? A case study from Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2016
Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
Lessons for adaptation pathways in the Pacific Islands
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 02-2022
'We do not want to leave our land': Pacific ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of 'climate refugees'
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2021
Resolving the UNFCCC divide on climate-smart agriculture
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-2016
Last chance tourism and the Great Barrier Reef
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-08-2016
Turning a Global Crisis into a Tourism Opportunity: the Perspective from Tuvalu
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-05-2012
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.1883
Assessing tourists’ perceptions of climate change on mountain landscapes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2010
Hopeful tourism to grapple and engage with emotions in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2022
Abstract: The Anthropocene is characterised by people’s significant influences on global systems, which generate both high levels of uncertainty and profound change in our lifetime. We must start to better engage with what it might mean to inhabit and know the world differently, especially as we experience extensive loss and change, and because grief is increasingly with us. At the same time, we must better engage with our emotions productively and find hope through active, conscious processing and mourning. In this commentary, we explore the potential of engaging in nature‐based tourism to help us grapple with, process, and positively engage with the emotions of the Anthropocene. We gained insights about such potential for healing by collaborating with two eco‐tourism enterprises in Australia: Mount Barney Lodge in Southeast Queensland and Salt and Bush Eco Tours in the Peel River Region on the west coast of Australia. We found that nature immersion can heal and renew. Moreover, guides who know about and are connected to or living closely with nature play critical roles as interpreters or intermediaries with nature. They can also inspire gratitude and positive emotions by encouraging us to (re)connect with nature and provide new and transformative perspectives that bring comfort and motivate action.
Environmental Sustainability in practice? A macro-scale profile of tourist accommodation facilities in Australia's coastal zone
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-01-2008
DOI: 10.2167/JOST621.0
Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2017
Climate-induced migration: Exploring local perspectives in Kiribati
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-07-2017
DOI: 10.1111/SJTG.12202
Raising awareness about climate change in Pacific communities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Marketplaces as sites for the development‐adaptation‐disaster trifecta: Insights from Vanuatu
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-10-2020
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12293
Alternative entry points for adaptation: examples from Vanuatu
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Date: 2020
Abstract: As climate change accelerates, effective adaptation is an urgent and unavoidable priority. Bottom-up approaches such as community-based adaptation have been portrayed as the panacea. Recent studies are, however, highlighting the ongoing and inherent issues with normative “community” conceptualizations that assume a geographically bound, temporally fixed, and harmonious unit. Despite documentation on the negative impact these problematic assumptions can have on adaptation outcomes, adaptation at the community scale remains the preferred option for project delivery in highly exposed places such as the Pacific Islands region. More creative entry points that are less charged with problematic assumptions are needed at the local scale. This paper draws from three ex les in Vanuatu to offer compelling alternative entry points for adaptation: 1) a rural technical college embedded within an Anglican mission village, 2) a whole-of-island approach, and 3) the “collective of vendors” at marketplaces. We offer hope by identifying ways to expand on and complement existing, restricted notions of community and, through this, to improve adaptation outcomes.
Being(s) framed: The means and ends of framing environmental migrants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Vulnerable groups and preliminary insights into intersecting categories of identity in Laamu Atoll, Maldives
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SJTG.12280
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