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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Island Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Island Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology
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This book explores how Pacific Island communities are responding to
the challenges wrought by climate change-most notably fresh water
accessibility, the growing threat of disease, and crop failure. The
Pacific Island nations are not alone in facing these challenges,
but their responses are unique in that they arise from traditional
and community-based understandings of climate and disaster.
Knowledge sharing, community education, and widespread
participation in decision-making have promoted social resilience to
such challenges across the Pacific. In this exploration of the
Pacific Island countries, Bryant-Tokalau demonstrates that by
understanding the inter-relatedness of local expertise, customary
resource management, traditional knowledge and practice, as well as
the roles of leaders and institutions, local
"knowledge-practice-belief systems" can be used to inform
adaptation to disasters wherever they occur.
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