The complex decision-making of climate-induced relocation: adaptation and loss and damage

McNamara, Karen E.; Bronen, Robin; Fernando, Nishara; Klepp, Silja

doi:10.1080/14693062.2016.1248886

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“…The last typology group was “existential” (category #4). Eighteen percent of studies portrayed a sense of inevitability and permanent loss through, for example, migration and relocation of communities (Eckersley, ; Mayer, ; McNamara, Bronen, Fernando, & Klepp, ), the cultural loss of receding glaciers (Jurt, Brugger, Dunbar, Milch, & Orlove, ), and the harmful psychological effects of potential L&D which impacts well‐being even if it does not actually eventuate (Herington, ). In some cases, the term “existential” was explicitly stated with Thomas and Benjamin (, p. 95), for example, stating that “climate change was identified as an existential threat.” More commonly, however, the identification of “existential” publications was based on the presence of suggestions that L&D is occurring now and is inevitable, the highlighting of noneconomic and permanent L&D, calls for urgent mitigation, and support for having a compensation mechanism.…”

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“…However, “the very least that the parties to the UNFCCC should offer climate refugees is sufficient compensation under the WIM to enable them to start a new life” (Eckersley, , p. 498). Additionally, two studies explore Kiribati and Alaskan examples to elicit some of the complexity involved with relocating communities (McNamara et al, ; Roberts & Andrei, ).…”

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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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“…As evidenced by the considerable research undertaken on development-induced displacement (Scudder 2011;Wilmsen and Webber 2015) relocation always involves some 'loss and damage', even if the motivation is to 'adapt' to climate change. McNamara et al (2018) summarise these harmful effects as including loss or erosion of a sense of place and identity, self-efficacy, rights to land and culture, capital derived from physical places and access to common property resources. These harmful effects are all likely to undermine a community's capacity to adapt to future climate risks.…”

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“…Yet, it remains the subject of considerable debate as to whether displacement is a form of adaptation or evidence of harm and damage due to the impacts of climate change (see McNamara et al 2018 for an excellent review). What is critical here in making such a determination is the circumstances under which a decision to move is taken, the degree of agency or coercion involved, the livelihood and wellbeing outcomes and ultimately whether vulnerability to future climate risks is decreased.…”

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Resettlement and the environment in Vietnam: Implications for climate change adaptation planning

Miller

Dun

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Increasingly the environment, and climate risks in particular, are influencing migration and planned resettlement in Vietnam, raising the spectre of increased displacement in a country already confronting serious challenges around sustainable land and water use as well as urbanisation. Planned resettlement has emerged as part of a suite of measures being pursued as part of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies. This paper provides an historical, political, legal and environmental overview of resettlement in Vietnam identifying key challenges for framing resettlement as climate change adaptation. The paper outlines the scale of past resettlement in Vietnam, identifying the drivers and implications for vulnerability. Detailed case studies of resettlement are reviewed. Through this review, the paper reflects on the growing threat of climate change and the likelihood of increased displacement associated with worsening climate risks to identify some critical considerations for planned resettlement in climate change adaptation planning.

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“…Some governmentse.g., Mozambique, Solomon Islandsare formulating planned relocation policies, including as a component of National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) (Warner et al, 2014). There are to date, however, few sites where climate-related relocation has been implemented (Burkett, 2015;Hino et al, 2017;Lipset, 2013;McNamara et al, 2018;Weir & Pittock, 2017).…”

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Planned relocation and everyday agency in low‐lying coastal villages in Fiji

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Katonivualiku²,

Powell

2019

Geographical Journal

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Relocation of communities is widely expected to be an adaptive response to sea‐level rise, albeit a last resort after exhausting other adaptation options. It is a phenomenon, however, from which there are few examples to learn. This paper examines relocation processes underway in three low‐lying coastal villages in Fiji, each affected by coastal erosion and flooding. Drawing on the concept of “everyday agency,” it considers how environmental changes and planned relocation initiatives are resisted, accommodated, or shaped through daily activities and decision‐making. For residents of these three villages, climate change adaptation is not only a matter of adapting to environmental changes, but a process of actively steering a way through unfolding dimensions of planned relocation. The findings respond to increasingly audible calls to recognise the agency of people living in climate‐vulnerable places, and to highlight everyday responses to climate impacts and adaptation initiatives.

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The complex decision-making of climate-induced relocation: adaptation and loss and damage

Cited by 79 publications

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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

Resettlement and the environment in Vietnam: Implications for climate change adaptation planning

Planned relocation and everyday agency in low‐lying coastal villages in Fiji

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