Adaptation to climate change in coastal communities: findings from seven sites on four continents
CORRECTION LINK: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-019-02613-4 International audience Climate change is causing wide-ranging effects on ecosystem services critical to coastal communities and livelihoods, creating an urgent need to adapt. Most studies of climate change adaptation con...
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CORRECTION LINK: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-019-02613-4 International audience Climate change is causing wide-ranging effects on ecosystem services critical to coastal communities and livelihoods, creating an urgent need to adapt. Most studies of climate change adaptation consist of narrative descriptions of individual cases or global synthesis, making it difficult to formulate and test locally rooted but generalizable hypotheses about adaptation processes. In contrast, researchers in this study analyzed key points in climate change adaptation derived from coordinated fieldwork in seven coastal communities around the world, including Arctic, temperate, and tropical areas on four continents. Study communities faced multiple challenges from sea level rise and warmer ocean temperatures, including coastal erosion, increasing salinity, and ecological changes. We analyzed how the communities adapted to climate effects and other co-occurring forces for change, focusing on most important changes to local livelihoods and societies, and barriers to and enablers of adaptation. Although many factors contributed to adaptation, communities with strong self-organized local institutions appeared better able to adapt without substantial loss of well-being than communities where these institutions were weak or absent. Key features of these institutions included setting and enforcing rules locally and communication across scales. Self-governing local institutions have been associated with sustainable management of natural resources. In our study communities, analogous institutions played a similar role to moderate adverse effects from climate-driven environmental change. The findings suggest that policies to strengthen, recognize, and accommodate local institutions could improve adaptation outcomes. |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02407624v1 2023-05-15T15:12:43+02:00 Adaptation to climate change in coastal communities: findings from seven sites on four continents Berman, Matthew Baztan, Juan Kofinas, Gary Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul Chouinard, Omer Huctin, Jean-Michel Kane, Alioune Mazé, Camille Nikulkina, Inga Thomson, Kaleekal University of Alaska Anchorage Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Université de Moncton Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Sénégal (UCAD) Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) North-Eastern Federal University Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) 2020-03 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02407624 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x hal-02407624 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02407624 doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x ISSN: 0165-0009 EISSN: 1573-1480 Climatic Change https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02407624 Climatic Change, Springer Verlag, 2020, 158 (2), pp.1-16. ⟨10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x⟩ Coastal communities Local institutions Climate change Common-pool resources Coastal livelihoods ACL [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x 2021-12-19T01:35:51Z CORRECTION LINK: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-019-02613-4 International audience Climate change is causing wide-ranging effects on ecosystem services critical to coastal communities and livelihoods, creating an urgent need to adapt. Most studies of climate change adaptation consist of narrative descriptions of individual cases or global synthesis, making it difficult to formulate and test locally rooted but generalizable hypotheses about adaptation processes. In contrast, researchers in this study analyzed key points in climate change adaptation derived from coordinated fieldwork in seven coastal communities around the world, including Arctic, temperate, and tropical areas on four continents. Study communities faced multiple challenges from sea level rise and warmer ocean temperatures, including coastal erosion, increasing salinity, and ecological changes. We analyzed how the communities adapted to climate effects and other co-occurring forces for change, focusing on most important changes to local livelihoods and societies, and barriers to and enablers of adaptation. Although many factors contributed to adaptation, communities with strong self-organized local institutions appeared better able to adapt without substantial loss of well-being than communities where these institutions were weak or absent. Key features of these institutions included setting and enforcing rules locally and communication across scales. Self-governing local institutions have been associated with sustainable management of natural resources. In our study communities, analogous institutions played a similar role to moderate adverse effects from climate-driven environmental change. The findings suggest that policies to strengthen, recognize, and accommodate local institutions could improve adaptation outcomes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Climatic Change 159 1 1 16 |