Loss and Damage

Burkett, Maxine

doi:10.1163/18786561-00402010

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“…The question of L&D governance typically revolved around the international climate agreements and, in particular, the WIM. Although criticized as conservative (Burkett, ), the WIM offers a first attempt at providing a template for concerted scientific and policy efforts on L&D. The WIM is “mandated to fulfil the role of the Convention as determined by Parties at COP 18, which included enhancing knowledge and understanding of how risk management tools can be used to address L&D; strengthening dialogue, coordination and coherence and synergies amongst relevant stakeholders and enhancing action and support to address L&D” (Roberts & Huq, , p. 152). The Paris Agreement continued this framing and preferences a risk management perspective which relates to a focus on treating underlying risk factors by bringing together adaptation and disaster risk reduction to reduce future L&D (Roberts & Huq, ).…”

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Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

McNamara

Jackson

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change researchers argue that a residual domain exists beyond the limits of adaptation to prevent deleterious climate change impacts: this has been labeled as "loss and damage." Over the last 8 years, there has been significant growth in loss and damage scholarship thus making it imperative to take stock of what we know already and directions for future research. We undertook a quantitative review of academic publications (n = 122) in the loss and damage field to date and documented study characteristics, thematic areas, trends, gaps, and opportunities. The first publication appeared in 2010 before a significant increase in published research after 2013. Although increasingly diverse over time, loss and damage studies have primarily focused on technical, political, and normative questions. Our analysis suggests the following: that researchers predominately conceptualize loss and damage as "limits to adaptation"; that the literature is more practical (i.e., descriptive, does not challenge underlying presuppositions) than critical (i.e., challenges underlying presuppositions) in orientation; that loss and damage is conceived as both an occurring and future condition; and that economic dimensions of loss and damage are prioritized in studies. Recommended future research directions include empirical and theoretical explorations of the potential for transformational change; understanding what people value and how they can engage with loss and grief; ensuring the perspectives of the most vulnerable groups are included in decision-making; and greater policy-relevant research and critical analyses of loss and damage conceptualizations and the Warsaw International Mechanism.

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Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

McNamara

Jackson

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Regarding practical tools, this perspective utilizes economic reasoning and cost-benefit analysis (Lincke and Hinkel 2018) to justify investing in projects to avoid or minimize L&D. The L&D that is beyond CBA justification has been labeled as "residual" (Ma et al 2015). Managing financial vulnerability leads to the use of economic risk management tools (Mechler and Schinko 2016;Schinko and Mechler 2017), including various forms of insurance, disaster bonds, and disaster hedging (Burkett 2014;Wirtz et al 2014;Broberg 2019;Nordlander et al 2019). These tools facilitate the management of financial risks to reduce loss of capital (Hochrainer-Stigler et al 2017).…”

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Loss and damage from climate change and implicit assumptions of sustainable development

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Loss and damage from climate change, recognized as a unique research and policy domain through the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) in 2013, has drawn increasing attention among climate scientists and policy makers. Labelled by some as the “third pillar” of the international climate regime—along with mitigation and adaptation—it has been suggested that loss and damage has the potential to catalyze important synergies with other international agendas, particularly sustainable development. However, the specific approaches to sustainable development that inform loss and damage research and how these approaches influence research outcomes and policy recommendations remain largely unexplored. We offer a systematic analysis of the assumptions of sustainable development that underpins loss and damage scholarship through a comprehensive review of peer-reviewed research on loss and damage. We demonstrate that the use of specific metrics, decision criteria, and policy prescriptions by loss and damage researchers and practitioners implies an unwitting adherence to different underlying theories of sustainable development, which in turn impact how loss and damage is conceptualized and applied. In addition to research and policy implications, our review suggests that assumptions about the aims of sustainable development determine how loss and damage is conceptualized, measured, and governed, and the human development approach currently represents the most advanced perspective on sustainable development and thus loss and damage. This review supports sustainable development as a coherent, comprehensive, and integrative framework for guiding further conceptual and empirical development of loss and damage scholarship.

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“…Its status as a COFA (Compact of Free Association) treaty state, still in many ways tied to the US, also informs official discourses of adaptation and mitigation. In recent years, discussions of climate migration have met with resistance (Rudiak-Gould, 2013;Burkett, 2014) and new discussions are centered around NGO-sponsored engineering and land reclamation projects to raise the archipelago's infrastructure and even build new islands (Jetnīl-Kijiner, 2019). Greenland's government, facing rapid ice melt, thawing permafrost and increased navigability of Arctic waters, is considering how to manage its natural resources (over which it gained sovereignty under the 2009 Self Government Act), especially oil and uranium (Markussen, 2017: 306).…”

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“…Additionally, there are concerns about the mismanagement of COFA funds (Kupferman, 2011), that have already caused economic vulnerabilities and waves of migration, which in turn impact climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. While there are discussions about the necessity of relocation (Burkett 2011), the realities of being a climate refugee-lack of citizenship, rights, access to social safety nets, and autonomy-are already known by many Marshallese (for more the problematics of climate refugees in Pacific Islands, see Farbotko and Lazrus (2012); see also Burkett, 2014;Yamada, et al, 2017). In Iep Jāltok, Jetnīl-Kijiner herself relates the experience of growing up in Hawai'i as part of a large diasporic Marshall Islanders community, continually dealing with racism against them and general invisibility in this structure (2017).…”

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Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another

Faris¹

2019

Shima

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The video poem Rise: From One Island to Another, a 2018 collaboration between Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnīl-Kijiner and Inuk poet Aka Niviâna from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) raises key questions about the antimonies of climate mitigation and adaptation discourses across oceans and islands. As "sisters of ocean and ice," the poets reference the climate relationships between ice melt in Greenland and sea inundation of the Marshall Islands as part of the extended, but differentiated, island colonial histories of occupation, militarism, and development. Having been brought together by environmental activist organisation 350.org, Jetnīl-Kijiner and Niviâna also strategically use their positionalities as Indigenous islanders to critique not only the continuity between colonial and neo-liberal operations but also the continuity between colonial and environmental scopic regimes, that taken together, stymie climate change imaginaries. In response to these discourses, they claim a feminist hydro-ontological imaginary. Ultimately, the video poem allows an examination of the value of materialist hydro-feminisms and "feminism without borders" (Mohanty, 2003) to extend Island Studies frameworks of the aquapelagic-the assemblage of human interactivity with sea, land, and sky.

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Loss and Damage

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Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research

Loss and damage from climate change and implicit assumptions of sustainable development

Sisters of Ocean and Ice: On the Hydro-feminism of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna’s Rise: From One Island to Another

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