Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador

Gutierrez, Helen; Lee, Gwenyth O.; Angulo, Betty Corozo; Dimka, Jessica; Eisenberg, Joseph N.S.; Trostle, James; Hardin, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/s10745-020-00165-1

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“…All these conceptualizations of well‐being were coined from existing frameworks developed in WEIRD settings (e.g., the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) and then applied to IPLC. Only one of the reviewed studies (Gutierrez et al, 2020) had an inductive approach whereby IPLC participants themselves defined the components of well‐being based on a local (Quechua) concept, sumac kawsay (Table 2).…”

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Perspectives on Indigenous well‐being and climate change adaptation

Jarillo,

Crivelli

2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Though it is often said that climate change is a risk to people's well‐being, the specific ways in which it affects people's well‐being is still poorly understood, especially as it relates to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Two interrelated issues contribute to this gap in knowledge: (1) the use of different conceptualizations of well‐being across disciplines; and (2) the limited use of local and context‐specific understandings of well‐being that are meaningful to people exposed to climate change. Here, we review 103 articles covering the topic of climate change adaptation and well‐being. We find that, despite the growing interest on the topic, most of the articles do not include definitions of well‐being. We then propose an approach informed by emic values to better understand how climate change may affect well‐being in Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. We conclude that, given the increasing recognition of well‐being as a fundamental marker of successful adaptation, well‐being should be central to climate change research and policymaking, but for this to be of benefit to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities context‐specific understandings of well‐being are necessary.This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation Climate and Development > Sustainability and Human Well‐Being The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge

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Perspectives on Indigenous well‐being and climate change adaptation

Jarillo,

Crivelli

2024

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“…When asked why the topic was important, 58.33% of those participating in the survey answered it would “bring drought and shortage,” while 17.19% stated that it would “affect my lifestyle,” 17.30% that “some living things would become extinct,” and 6.77% that there would be “an increase in disease and deaths.” Reasons such as that it would bring material cost or that it would cause migration was rarely chosen. According to a study by Gutierrez et al (2020) conducted in an agricultural rural area in Ecuador, which had been damaged by flood, problems such as unmet basic needs and economic instability were seen as more urgent and dangerous than changes in local ecosystems as a result of the climate and environmental degradation.…”

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“…However, while the confusion over the causes and effects of climate change generally attracts more attention, it has been shown that the ozone layer, carbon emissions, and industrialization by developing countries are among the important factors. On the other hand, deficiencies in financial, human, or political resources may reduce the capacity of a society to develop or maintain a climate‐suitable infrastructure, which may result in a vicious circle, increasing financial and human costs of the effects of climate change (Gutierrez et al, 2020). Developed countries are able to develop different practical measures to cope with climate change, but undeveloped countries are relatively defenseless (Adhikari et al, 2019).…”

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“…Reasons such as that it would bring material cost or that it would cause migration was rarely chosen. According to a study by Gutierrez et al (2020) conducted in an agricultural rural area in Ecuador, which had been damaged by flood, problems such as unmet basic needs and economic instability were seen as more urgent and dangerous than changes in local ecosystems as a result of the climate and environmental degradation.…”

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An examination of the state of awareness of the problem of climate change in Turkey for those living in cities: The case of Eskişehir Province

Ağırbaş

Sarıçam

2022

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Climate change directly or indirectly affects the standard of living and quality of life for everyone, and so it has generated widespread interest and concern. Human awareness of global climate change, knowledge of the dimensions of the problem, and its consequences, are the first and most important steps towards a solution. However much the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement are seen as global efforts to combat climate change, economic outcomes overshadow worries about climate change. Therefore, even if individual awareness seems small for such a large problem, it is as an effective first step. In this regard, a survey was conducted among 384 people living in the districts of Odunpazarı and Tepebas ¸ı of Eskis ¸ehir province to determine their levels of awareness and knowledge of climate change. Survey participants were evaluated with regard to the district in which they lived and their gender, age group, education, membership in nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and income. Correlations between various determinant characteristics of the participants and their knowledge of climate change and readiness to pay more for goods produced without harming the environment are presented with χ 2 analysis, percentages, and proportions. No statistically significant correlation was found between knowledge of climate change of the participants and district, age, or gender, but a significant correlation was found between education and income levels, and NGO membership. There was no correlation between being willing to pay more for goods produced without harming the environment and district. No correlation was found between NGO membership and readiness to pay more for goods produced without harming the environment. Both central districts are close to each other and are very similar in terms of lifestyle, income, and the practices of local administrations regarding climate change and environmental problems.

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“…Land loss entails a concomitant loss of access to financial resources among subsistence and agricultural-based populations such as smallholder farmers 37 . This economic instability is compounded by other climate risks and non-climatic stressors, resulting in reduced access to basic services such as education, public goods and social programmes 38,39 . Such basic services constitute an important dimension of human security that is intrinsic to the well-being of whole communities, particularly in rural settings and among low-income urban households.…”

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Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses

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The consequences of climate change and responses to climate change interact with multiple dimensions of human well-being in ways that are emerging or invisible to decision makers. We examine how elements of well-being-health, safety, place, self and belonging-are at risk from climate change. We propose that the material impacts of a changing climate, discourses and information on future and present climate risks, and policy responses to climate change affect all these elements of well-being. We review evidence on the scale and scope of these climate change consequences for well-being and propose policy and research priorities that are oriented towards supporting well-being though a changing climate.Climate change is altering environments and societies in ways that affect what it is to be human. Psychosocial theories of well-being explain how people's feelings and functions depend on the way they relate to and are enabled and constrained by their environmental and social circumstances. Here we focus on a major body of evidence that shows how these circumstances are increasingly being affected by climate change in direct and indirect ways.We provide a survey of recent developments in research that shows how climate change affects human well-being and will increasingly do so. These developments are based on well-established framings that underpin psychosocial descriptions of human well-being. We offer a model of how well-being may be affected by climate change and use this as a framework to structure our survey of the social science research on human experiences of climate change.The analysis here draws on social psychology and applied social science research on climate risks that uses diverse methods ranging from epidemiological investigations to economic assessments to ethnographic studies on sense making and place [1][2][3][4] . Many studies are implicit about the nature of well-being, focusing on elements that are self-evidently part of the overall picture, such as individual health, nutrition and the absence or presence of physical risks. Many climate risk assessments recognize the limited nature of climate goals and raise concerns about narrow conceptions of material well-being 5 . This concern about the omission of well-being from the objectives and scope of climate policy is reflected in wider political debates.The Sustainable Development Goals, for example, are explicit that health and well-being for all at every stage of life (SDG3) is an overarching goal of policy. Diverse proposals of alternative measures of desirable policy objectives, from happiness to resilient communities, suggest at their core that human well-being could and should be a central objective of climate change science and policy.Here we therefore explicitly focus on long-established models of human well-being that expand the scope of climate science and policy to include more than the material and physical dimensions of climate change 6 . In this way we explain how the direct impacts of climate change, information about climate risks, an...

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Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Perspectives on Indigenous well‐being and climate change adaptation

Perspectives on Indigenous well‐being and climate change adaptation

An examination of the state of awareness of the problem of climate change in Turkey for those living in cities: The case of Eskişehir Province

Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses

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