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Preservation: The Case of the Marshallese Diaspora byAlisonHeslin expands
that conversation by addressing the consequences of the relocation ofMarshallese
Islandersontheirculturalheritage,animportantcomponentofNELD.Thelow-lying
islands of the Republic of theMarshall Islands, with little capacity to withstand
evenminor increases in sea level and tides, are an important case in point, as its
population is facedwith relocation in the immediate future. Interestingly, nearly a
thirdof thepopulationalreadylivesoutsideof theMarshall Islands,benefittingfrom
visa freeentry into theUnitedStates.Thisprovidesanevidencebase forhelping to
anticipatefuturechallengesfacedbythosewhowillbedisplacedbyrisingsealevels.
The study draws on data from interviewswithmigrants from theMarshall Islands
regardingaccountsoflifeintheUnitedStatesandidentifieschallenges(differencesin
livelihoods,familystructures,foodhabits,etc.),aswellasopportunities(betteraccess
tovariousformsofemployment,improvedhealthcareandculturalpreservationinthe
midstoftheMarshallesediaspora).Thestudyclosesbylayingouthowunderstanding
themeans throughwhichMarshallesemigrantsmaintain cultural traditions and the
challenges they face can help to address potentially irreversible, but in this case,
avoidable lossesof cultural traditions in theevent ofmassdisplacement fromthese
small islands.
Suggestions have increasingly been brought forward regarding the potential for
partnerships between public and private sectors and civil society for devising and
implementingoptionsthatmanagecriticalclimate-relatedrisksatscale.Buthoware
suchmodelsandpartnershipsorganised?Whatcanbelearnedfromexistingactivities
andhowcanlearningbeupscaled?ThechapterSupportingClimateRiskManage-
ment at Scale: Insights from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Partnership
Model Applied in Peru and Nepal byReinhardMechler, ColinMcQuistan, Ian
McCallum,Wei Liu,AdrianaKeating, PiotrMagnuszewski, Thomas Schinko and
FinnLaurien reports on the learnings fromone suchpartnership, theZurichFlood
ResilienceAlliance–amulti-actorpartnership launched in2013toenhancecommu-
nities’ resilience to floods at local to global scales. The chapter presents learnings
fromtwocaseswherefloodrisk,amplifiedbyclimatechange,hasbeenerodingliveli-
hoods leading to some soft limits. In theKarnali andKoshi river basins inNepal,
communitiesare facing rapidon-setflashfloodsduring themonsoonseason that, in
the absenceof appropriate earlywarning technology, have led to severe loss of life
andassets.IntheRimacandPiurariverbasinsinPeru, thewellbeingofcommunities
intheabsenceofeffectivepreparednesshasbeenseverelyaffectedbylowprobability,
buthighimpactElNiñoepisodes.Options toovercomethese impactshave included
identifyingnovel evacuation routes andemergencyplans, thedevelopmentofflood
brigades, and supporting communities to interactwith local governments onDRR
planning.This critical examinationof theexperienceacrossgeographies andscales
leads the authors towards suggestions for identifyingnovel organisational, funding
andsupportmodels involvingNGOs, researchersandtheprivatesector, sidebyside
withpublic sector institutions.
TheArctic is a “laboratory” of physical transformation, where climate change
is happening about two times faster than theglobal average; there is high evidence
that meltwater fromArctic sources accounts for 35 percent of the current global
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima