Climate (in)justice, vulnerability and livelihoods in the Caribbean: The case of the indigenous Caribs in northeastern St. Vincent

Smith, Rose Ann J.; Rhiney, Kevon

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.008

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“…Rawlins et al (2007) capture the variations in knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) towards climate change, as well as impacts detection and attribution in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Kitts and Nevis. Work by Smith and Rhiney (2016) underscores the sensitivity and exposure of Indigenous communities to climate-related hazards, and draws attention to the role of economic and political factors in driving vulnerability. Tompkins and Adger (2004) support building resilience as a way to cope with environmental change, and their study demonstrates a positive relationship between community-based management and adaptive capacity.…”

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Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

Robinson¹

2018

ISJ

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Small island developing states (SIDS) are distinct from other developing countries: they are particularly and comparatively more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Efforts to understand national-level vulnerability in these countries are limited. This paper helps to fill this gap and has two main aims. First, it identifies trends in national-level climate change adaptation among SIDS in the Caribbean region. Second, it identifies the limits to adaptation at the national level in these countries. In applying a resilience lens, and using summative content analysis techniques and semi-structured interviews with 26 senior policy-makers, this paper finds that Caribbean SIDS are primarily adapting to changes in hurricane, rainfall, and drought patterns. It also finds that most adaptations are being undertaken in the coastal zone and the water and agriculture sectors, and that there are many factors limiting national-level adaptation. The most commonly reported limit is financing, though not all policy-makers agree that financing is a limit. These findings are important for national SIDS governments and international donors and agencies that will be better able to identify and fill gaps in their adaptation actions and financing. This paper's findings also highlight the importance of depoliticising climate change and prioritising good governance, improving SIDS' access to international adaptation financing, and making the road to a climate-resilient future by walking.

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Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

Robinson¹

2018

ISJ

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“…Ref. [26] examined climate justice for SIDS like the Caribbean islands and argued that factors driving vulnerability pointed to centuries of economic neglect and political marginalisation that are strongly related to communities' socio-economic characteristics, geographic locations, heavy reliance on land-based resources and the capacity to adapt to climate change. Refs.…”

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“…Refs. [26,27] stressed that vulnerability to negative impacts of climate change is partly a function of different coping and adapting capabilities of various groups of people in developing countries. Ref.…”

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A Survey of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island States

Taupo¹

2019

Climate Change and Global Warming

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This paper surveys the conceptual framework of disaster risk that relies on its associated components of hazard, vulnerability and exposure. How we measure these risks depends on how we define disaster risk and its components. We focus on the implication and applicability of available conceptual frameworks of disaster risk on small and low-lying islands in the Pacific. We examine some of the available measurements of these disaster risks as they are imperative to the formulation of appropriate disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies for Tuvalu. Though there are diverse views on these definitions in different disciplines, we can capitalise on their commonalities to frame disaster risk models. Here, we intend to use the findings and set a pathway for potential research and to contribute into building resilience, reducing DRR and improving responsiveness to the impact of climatic disasters in Pacific Islands.

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“…6 It is this theoretical framework that grounds our empirical investigation. Smith and Rhiney (2015) and López-Marrero and Wisner (2012) stress that vulnerability to negative impacts of weather risk is partly a function of the differential coping and adapting capabilities of various groups of people. They further point out that vulnerability to climatic impacts is inherently developmental as the differentiated levels of exposure and sensitivity to natural hazards are partly created by basic social and economic inequalities, and access to resources, assets and government support.…”

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At the Very Edge of a Storm: The Impact of a Distant Cyclone on Atoll Islands

Taupo

2017

EconDisCliCha

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The intensity of cyclones in the Pacific is predicted to increase and sea levels are predicted to rise, so an atoll nation like Tuvalu can serve as the 'canary in the coal mine' pointing to the new risks that are emerging because of climatic change. Based on a household survey we conducted in Tuvalu, we quantify the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Pam (March 2015) on households, and the determinants of these impacts in terms of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and responsiveness. Households experienced significant damage due to the storm surge caused by the cyclone, even though the cyclone itself passed very far away (about a 1000 km from the islands). This risk of distant cyclones has been overlooked in the literature, and ignoring it leads to significant under-estimation of the disaster risk facing lowlying atoll islands. Lastly, we constructed hypothetical policy scenarios, and calculated the estimated loss and damage they would have been associated with -a first step in building careful assessments of the feasibility of various disaster risk reduction policies.

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Climate (in)justice, vulnerability and livelihoods in the Caribbean: The case of the indigenous Caribs in northeastern St. Vincent

Cited by 47 publications

References 30 publications

Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

Adapting to climate change at the national level in Caribbean small island developing state

A Survey of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island States

At the Very Edge of a Storm: The Impact of a Distant Cyclone on Atoll Islands

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