ORCID Profile
0000-0002-5474-8298
Current Organisation
Northumbria University
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-06-2023
Abstract: The scientific concept of losses and damages relates to residual climate change impacts after mitigation and adaptation. Losses and damages are truly borderless, albeit experienced differentially between and within countries due uneven spatial vulnerability. Despite Australia being a high-income country, losses and damages have been particularly severe. Just over the last 6 years, farmers in East Gippsland, Victoria – the site of this research – have been severely affected by prolonged drought, extreme heat, bushfires, and floods, with emerging extreme event attribution evidence for specific extreme events such as heatwaves and bushfires. In this mixed-methods study, we explore a range of questions related to climate change and extreme event opinion, experienced losses and damages, disproportionality, responsibility, and thresholds to leaving the sector and relocation. We find that while East Gippsland farmers’ perceptions of anthropogenic climate change remains polarised and vary immensely, they are already experiencing significant economic and non-economic losses and damages they recognise farmers are disproportionately affected by climate extremes compared to the broader population but always thought there were others more affected than themselves they generally perceive everyone is responsible for the management of extreme events and very few have or are planning to leave the sector or relocate despite an increasingly uncertain future. Our research extends knowledge on climate change losses and damages as part of a global stocktake – who it affects, how and why, and at what scale.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-07-2023
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 28-06-2023
Abstract: At the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties agreed to establish new funding arrangements and a fund for loss and damage. These decisions were widely heralded as a breakthrough, one that finally recognised that climate change has already caused losses and damages globally. Political questions remain open (e.g., who pays, who receives, whether housed inside or outside of UNFCCC). In this viewpoint we engage with a key term in the decision texts—particularly vulnerable. How Parties conceptualise and define the term ‘particularly vulnerable’ will influence funding allocation by way of political justification for eligibility or exclusion. We develop scientific, political, and legal arguments against narrow definitions of particularly vulnerable. We outline a brief history of the term particularly vulnerable in the UNFCCC, present insights from the emerging science of losses and damage (i.e., defining, measuring, and mapping), and critically unpack the political and legal implications of defining particularly vulnerable for loss and damage funding. It is possible to define particularly vulnerable in a way that can achieve substantial advances in the fight for legal and political justice and be an act of truth-telling.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-12-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-01-2023
DOI: 10.1177/27539687221148748
Abstract: Loss and damage is the “third pillar” of international climate governance alongside mitigation and adaptation. When mitigation and adaptation fail, losses and damages occur. Scholars have been reacting to international political discourse centred around governing actual or potential severe losses and damages from climate change. Large gaps exist in relation to understanding the underlying power dimensions, rationalities, knowledges, and technologies of loss and damage governance and science. We draw from a Foucauldian-inspired governmentality framework to argue there is an emerging governmentality of loss and damage. We find, among other things, that root causes of loss and damage are being obscured, Western knowledge and technocratic interventions are centred, and there are colonial presupposed subjectivities of Global South victims of climate change, which are being contested by people bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. We propose future directions for critical research on climate change loss and damage.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-04-2021
DOI: 10.1177/20530196211005482
Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change is leading to widespread losses around the world. While the focus of research over the last decade has largely been on economic or tangible losses, researchers have begun to shift their focus to understanding the non-economic or intangible dimensions of loss more deeply. Loss of life, bio ersity and social cohesion are some of the losses that are beginning to be explored, along with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and cultural heritage. These latter two form the basis of this systematic review of 100 studies to take stock of what we know about climate-driven losses to ILK and cultural heritage, how such losses manifest and how they are overcome, revealing gaps in our knowledge and carving a path for future research.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-06-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10584-023-03567-4
Abstract: Australia has objectively suffered climate extreme-driven loss and damage—climate change impacts that cannot or will not be avoided. Recent national surveys demonstrate a growing awareness of the link between climate change and climate extremes. However, climate extremes interact with existing environmental subjectivities (i.e., how people perceive, understand, and relate to the environment), which leads to different social, cultural, and political responses. For ex le, people in northern Australia are familiar with climate extremes, with the heat, humidity, fires, floods, storms, and droughts intimately connected to identities and sense of place. In this climate ethnography, I demonstrate the value of undertaking environmental subjectivities analyses for research on climate-society relations. I detail how environmental subjectivities influence people’s experiences, or non-experiences, of climate extreme-driven loss and damage in northern Australia. I identify a growing concern for climate change and climate extremes are influencing environmental subjectivities. Yet, many northern Australians—even people concerned about climate change—are not, for now, connecting extreme events to climate change. A widespread subjectivity of anticipatory loss supplied people with an imagined temporal buffer, which contributes to non-urgency in political responses. Together with more structural political-economic barriers and a sense of helplessness to affect progressive change, limited action beyond in idual consumer decisions and small-scale advocacy are occurring. These, amongst other, findings extend research on the role of climate extremes in climate opinion, lived experiences of loss and damage in affluent contexts, and the environmental value-action gap.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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