Climate Change and the Pacific Islands

Kumar, Lalit; Jayasinghe, Sadeeka Layomi; Gopalakrishnan, Tharani; Nunn, Patrick D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32878-8_1

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“… 25 The wider Pacific island countries are frequently affected by natural hazards such as cyclones, floods and coastal erosion, earthquakes, and tsunamis affecting the people's livelihood and overstretching the limited health resources. 22 , 26 Vector-borne disease such as malaria and dengue is prevalent due to the climate, recurrent heavy rains and tropical cyclones. 27 , 28 Women and children are often vulnerable to malnutrition due to food shortages and diarrhoeal diseases in the aftermath of natural disasters.…”

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping review

Kaforau

Tessema

Jancey

et al. 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping review

Kaforau

Tessema

Jancey

et al. 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

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“…Most plastics pollution ends up in the environment so that Indigenous leaders must now deal with the impact of plastics leachates to arable soils, fishing grounds, and mangroves, impacting the local food systems, human and ecological health, cultural connections to Land and Sea, and community livelihoods (Leal et al, 2020). Plastics pollution leakage is exacerbated by Te Moanaui's exposure to weather extremes because of climate change (Kumar et al, 2020). Winds, rain, and storm swells, rising sea levels, and frequent cyclones and storm surges disperse plastics easily into the environment, further threatening human health and ecosystems -the Lands, Oceans, Air, and bodies of Te Moananui's Indigenous peoples (Leal et al, 2019, Lachmann et al, 2017, Farrelly, Stupples, and Schneider, 2016, Lavers et al, 2020Kumar et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Plastics pollution leakage is exacerbated by Te Moanaui's exposure to weather extremes because of climate change (Kumar et al, 2020). Winds, rain, and storm swells, rising sea levels, and frequent cyclones and storm surges disperse plastics easily into the environment, further threatening human health and ecosystems -the Lands, Oceans, Air, and bodies of Te Moananui's Indigenous peoples (Leal et al, 2019, Lachmann et al, 2017, Farrelly, Stupples, and Schneider, 2016, Lavers et al, 2020Kumar et al, 2020).…”

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Plastics pollution as waste colonialism in Te Moananui

Fuller¹,

Ngata²,

Borrelle

et al. 2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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Plastics pollution is a global, relational, integrated, and intersectoral issue. Here, we undertook narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews with nineteen key plastic pollution decision-makers. They offered a contextual lens to understand challenges facing Pacific Island (Te Moananui) nations in preventing plastics pollution. We build on the work of Ngata (2014-2021) and Liboiron (2014-2021) to situate the narrative analysis within a "waste colonialism" framework. We argue that plastics pollution as waste colonialism transcends environmental, policy, and industry concerns. "Indigenous political ecologies" of plastics pollution provide an understanding by which plastics pollution prevention can be examined at multiple scales. These include, at the international level: trade agreements and import dependency, donor aid and duplication, and transnational industry influence. At the local level: pressure from local plastics manufacturers, importers and suppliers, and barriers to accessing the latest science. Located within a global and regional context, our findings capture the systemic and long-standing impacts of colonialism on Indigenous responses to plastics pollution prevention and management, highlighting its effects on human and environment health and wellbeing. Sustainable solutions to plastics pollution for Te Moananui require the centering of its peoples and their deep, lived, and intergenerationally transmitted knowledges in the identification of challenges and solutions, the implementation of activities, and amplification of a shared regional voice.

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“…The 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories [9] are experiencing multiple consequences of climate change, while at the same time being comparatively dependent on the maritime ecosystem for a nutritional basis and infrastructure [9,10]. The states differ based on a variety of factors such as (colonial) history, ethnic groups, ecological environment, and geology, with the consequences of climate change for each region being shaped in particular by their classification as high-or low-lying regions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…"Accelerated sea-level rise will result in higher inundation levels, rising water tables, higher and more extreme flood frequency and levels, greater erosion, increased salt water intrusion, and ecological changes in coastal flora and fauna". [10], p. 5…”

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Understandings, Practices and Human-Environment Relationships—A Meta-Ethnographic Analysis of Local and Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Selected Pacific Island States

Seggern¹

2020

Sustainability

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Local and Indigenous knowledge systems worldwide indicate adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change. Particularly in regions that are massively affected by climatic changes, such as the Pacific Island States, there is a need for increased and combined research on the role which these knowledge systems can play internationally. For this reason, this article provides a synthesis of empirical results and approaches to local and Indigenous climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in selected South Pacific Island States by using a meta-ethnographic approach. The reviewed literature is associated with the sub-disciplinary perspective of the Anthropology of Climate Change. The results of the meta-ethnographic analysis are discussed based on three thematic focal points: First, the empirical ground of local understandings of climate change and its theoretical conceptualization(s) are constituted. Second, the results of practices for adaptation to climate change are synthesized and presented in detail throughout one example. Third, the synthesis of climate change mitigation practices is outlined with a specific focus on human-environment relationships.

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Climate Change and the Pacific Islands

Cited by 18 publications

References 76 publications

Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping review

Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping review

Plastics pollution as waste colonialism in Te Moananui

Understandings, Practices and Human-Environment Relationships—A Meta-Ethnographic Analysis of Local and Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Selected Pacific Island States

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