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Biodiversity
Intrinsic Values
Dignity (human mobility)
Intrinsic value of biodiversity
Physical and mental well-being
Loss of culturally
important landscapes
Territory
Habitat destrucƟon
(homes)
Places
Social cohesion, peacefully funcƟoning
society
Security (human mobility)
Adverse health impact Health
Physical and mental well-being
Ability to solve problems collecƟvely
Ecosystem Service
Sovereignty (territory)
EducaƟon
Agency
Intrinsic Instrumental
Loss of producƟve land
ProducƟon Sites
IdenƟty (Knowing/Belonging)
Communal Sites
DestrucƟon of cultural
sites
Cultural heritage
Artefacts Habitat destrucƟon
(markets,religious
sites)
material
non-material
TradiƟons/religion/customs
Loss of knowledge/ways of thinking
Decline of (indigenous) knowledge
Indigenous and local knowledge
Loss of idenƟty Social bonds/relaƟons
Sense of Place (territory)
Sources: ADB 2015; Morrissey&Oliver-Smith 2013; Fankhauser et al.2014
Biodiversity/Species
Biodiversity loss
Loss of life
Human Life
Ecosystem services
Ecosystem Services
Fig.8.1 Cases and categories ofNELDas reported in the literature published by 2015. Source
Serdecznyet al. (2016b)
the anthropologist andEnewetak ethnographerCarucci in his testimonybefore the
NuclearClaimsTribunalKirschwrites:
He[Carucci]notedthatAmericansmoveonaveragesixtimesduringtheirlifetimesandtreat
land as a commodity, ‘something that is used, purchased and sold.’Relationships to place
are temporary, and land is ‘something that one can buy, utilize for a short period of time,
andpasson.’Ourattachmenttoplace, inCarucci’sestimation, is‘quitemodest.’ Incontrast,
theMarshallese regard landasa ‘differentkindofentity,’ anelement ‘ofone’sveryperson’
andan‘integralpartofwhopeopleareandhowtheysituate themselves in theworld.’Their
‘senseof self,bothpersonalandcultural, isdeeplyembedded inapieceof land,’ theirweto
or landparcel (Kirsch2001:173).
Similarly,Morrissey andOliver Smith (2013) relate the high value of glaciers
to Andean villagers whose culture is composed of a system of traditional knowl-
edgeandcultural narrativesaround theseglaciers.Suchcontext-dependencemakes
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