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| Weathering the waves: Climate change, politics and vulnerability in Tuvalu | |
| Lazrus, Heather | |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 学位类型 | 博士 |
| 导师 | Sivaramakrishnan, K. |
| 学位授予单位 | University of Washington |
| 英文摘要 | This dissertation examines perceptions of climate change impacts and related atmospheric hazards as well as the governance of vulnerability to those impacts in Tuvalu, a Pacific Island country. Rising sea levels, increasing sea surface temperatures, ocean acidification, and extreme events including storms and droughts are among the challenges that Tuvalu faces as anthropogenic influences transform the nature of our global climate. Conclusions are based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Wellington, New Zealand, and Funafuti and Nanumea, Tuvalu. Archival, survey, and interview data complement insight gleaned from extensive participant observation among Tuvaluans living overseas, in the national capital, and on the northernmost outer island of the Tuvaluan Archipelago. Climate change demands attention at multiple scales of analysis. The potential for a Pacific Islands regional climate change regime is explored. Given successful regional precedents and characteristics of the problem, the formation of a regional climate regime is favorable. At the national level, the Tuvaluan government is concerned with preserving cultural integrity and promoting in situ development, while at the same time, needing to consider the possibility of population relocation. At the community level, recent policies of political decentralization are reviving and reinventing “traditional” island governance structures. On Nanumea, traditional governance is intrinsically linked to legends and genealogies that are used to navigate social and political life. Traditionally, leaders had specific responsibilities to maintain community safety and prevent disasters. Decentralization therefore carries important implications for community identity and safety in the face of ecological devastation. Already, local observations of environmental change indicate a climate signal that reflects expectations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for small island states. Vulnerability to climate change is differentially experienced and subjectively perceived. Research in Tuvalu grounded in political ecology demonstrates the importance of recognizing the political as well as environmental contributions to climate change impacts. The work underscores the need for adaptation to climate change to be driven by local aspirations and needs. |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change Pacific Islands Political ecology Resilience Tuvalu Vulnerability |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | United States |
| 来源学科分类 | Cultural anthropology; Climate Change; Pacific Rim Studies; Political science |
| URL | https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/305016393.html?FMT=AI |
| 来源机构 | University of Washington |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/244283 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lazrus, Heather. Weathering the waves: Climate change, politics and vulnerability in Tuvalu[D]. University of Washington,2009. |
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