Climate Change as (Dis)Equilibrium: Behavioral Resilience in the Greenlandic Arctic

Tejsner, Pelle; Veldhuis, Djuke

doi:10.1007/s10745-018-0026-7

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“…In Ghana, for instance, high impact of climate change on farmers’ livelihoods is paired with low climate vulnerability and high resilience to climate change [ 72 ]. Similarly, field research in the Greenlandic Arctic demonstrates indigenous people’s ability to respond flexibly to climate-based changes to the local environment that provides their livelihood, contrary to claims that they are prime examples of helpless, exposed cultures in crisis [ 34 ]. Therefore, one can imagine how rural residents might be more opposed to housing development on a green field site than a change in land use of this greenspace from grassland to marshland (e.g.…”

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“…With climate change affecting local communities, individuals either need to adapt or to migrate. As higher place attachment implies a higher motivation for staying in a place and adapting, rather than giving up a place associated with culture and identity [ 34 ], the link between place attachment and climate change becomes particularly crucial for policy responses [ 35 , 36 ].…”

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Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Tenbrink,

Willcock

2023

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Climate change is a global threat to ecosystems and the people that depend on them. However, the perceived threat of climate change may vary spatially. Previous research suggests that inhabitants in rural areas show higher levels of place attachment (associating meaning with a specific place) than urbanites, possibly because rural people depend more directly on their local environment. This can shape perceptions and behaviours, such as enhanced willingness to engage in landscape preservation. Here we ask if it also makes rural people perceive climate change as a greater threat, using a representative sample of 1,071 survey respondents from across the United Kingdom (UK) to provide first-order insights. We found that, whilst indicators of place attachment were indeed more frequent in rural areas, the perceived threat of climate change in the most rural locations was lower. We discuss possible explanations for this pattern (including lower levels of awareness of the anthropogenic causes of climate change, lessened first-hand experiences of climate change impacts due to higher levels of regulating ecosystem services, and higher levels of resilience in rural areas related to a closer relationship with nature), and call for further research to investigate this.

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Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Tenbrink,

Willcock

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Among some Inuit communities, for example, sharing networks have been documented to be contracting as it becomes harder to procure traditional foods with climate impacts, in turn reducing familial connections on which collective action is based. 96,97 New forms of sharing and decision making, including the incorporation of cash into traditional economies, 96,98 new mechanisms of sharing (e.g., via Facebook), 99 and expansion of social networks to access external support, 66 have balanced some of these trends and are commonly documented where peoples have sovereignty over their territories. The ability of such reorganization for resilience to environmental change has not, however, been widely examined.…”

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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

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Indigenous peoples globally have high exposure to environmental change and are often considered an ''atrisk'' population, although there is growing evidence of their resilience. In this Perspective, we examine the common factors affecting this resilience by illustrating how the interconnected roles of place, agency, institutions, collective action, Indigenous knowledge, and learning help Indigenous peoples to cope and adapt to environmental change. Relationships with place are particularly important in that they provide a foundation for belief systems, identity, knowledge, and livelihood practices that underlie mechanisms through which environmental change is experienced, understood, resisted, and responded to. Many Indigenous peoples also face significant vulnerabilities, whereby place dislocation due to land dispossession, resettlement, and landscape fragmentation has challenged the persistence of Indigenous knowledge systems and undermined Indigenous institutions, compounded by the speed of environmental change. These vulnerabilities are closely linked to colonization, globalization, and development patterns, underlying the importance of tackling these pervasive structural challenges.

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“…Stress induced by climate change affects traditional social binding practices within Indigenous Peoples' communities. For example, amongst some Inuit communities, food-sharing networks have been documented to be under stress as traditional foods have become harder to procure, in turn reducing familial connections on which collective action is based (Beaumier et al, 2015, Tejsner andVeldhuis, 2018). Over the long term, it is expected that climate change will greatly affect Indigenous Peoples' food systems, resulting in forced migration and disaster replacement amongst Indigenous Peoples.…”

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The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

2021

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ForewordOur life depends on nature and we contribute to nature through nurturing. This symbiotic relationship is something all of us are beginning to understand more and more.Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge: In this paper, we take "Indigenous Peoples' traditional knowledge" to denote the cumulative body of knowledge, practices and manifestations maintained and developed by Indigenous Peoples with long histories of interaction with their natural environment. Indigenous contributors to this paper stressed the importance of their traditional knowledge, most of it oral, and how its effective inter-and intragenerational transmission keeps their food systems alive and well functioning.xi Land, natural resources and territories: In this paper, we define land, territories or natural resources according to the terminology agreed at WCIP 2014 ("Land, natural resources and territories of Indigenous Peoples"). These terms encompass not only the land, but also the resources and customary rights over the management of these lands, and therefore carry a different significance.Cosmogony, cosmogonic views and spirituality: In this paper, the term cosmogony is used to refer to the set of spiritual beliefs, rites, religious practices, and customs that inform Indigenous Peoples' views of the ecosystem, nature and the world. Cosmogony is different to cosmology and is the term used by Indigenous Peoples to refer to spiritual principles held by their societies.Living in balance and harmony with nature and Mother Earth: In this paper, living in harmony means in recognition of the interconnectedness and balance with all other beings in nature, respectful of ecosystem-carrying capacities. Indigenous Peoples' holistic view places the interconnectedness and balance amongst all living things (including humans) as fundamental for harmonious and peaceful living. This concept was stressed repeatedly by many of the indigenous experts who contributed to this paper.Food sovereignty: Although Indigenous Peoples understand the definitions of food security and the principle of the Right to Food, Indigenous Peoples insist on the centrality of food sovereignty. Whilst the 1996 definition of food sovereignty agreed by La Via Campesina provides important conceptual framing, Indigenous Peoples tend to emphasise food sovereignty as the right for Indigenous Peoples to choose, to cultivate, and to preserve their food practices and biocultural values.Collective rights and communal or common resources: Indigenous Peoples' traditions of collective rights to lands and resources (through the community, region or state) contrast with dominant models of individual ownership, privatisation and development. In this paper, we define and acknowledge the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples to lands, territories and resources in accordance with the UNDRIP (Articles 3 and 26) and the International Labour Organization's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (no. 169). Biocentrism:The principle of biocentrism is part of the cosmogony of many Indigenous Peop...

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Climate Change as (Dis)Equilibrium: Behavioral Resilience in the Greenlandic Arctic

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

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