The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique
Small islands are highly dependent on their natural endowments. Because of this dependency, they are more vulnerable to climate change. This paper builds on the assumption that a better understanding of the meaning of climate change in specific local contexts (from localized perspectives) opens up p...
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| author | Marlino Eugénio Mubai Salomão Olinda Bandeira Dactivo José Combane Tim Daw Taís Gonzalez Elizabeth Maria Drury O'Neill Maria Mancilla Garcia |
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| description | Small islands are highly dependent on their natural endowments. Because of this dependency, they are more vulnerable to climate change. This paper builds on the assumption that a better understanding of the meaning of climate change in specific local contexts (from localized perspectives) opens up possibilities for climate change adaptations. Based on literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and forum theatre performances, the paper provides various perceptions of climate change effects from KaNyaka Island in Mozambique. It endeavors to further build the case for the integration of everyday-life experiences and observations of environmental processes in developing collective responses to climate change. The study does so by looking at the way island inhabitants, who are particularly vulnerable to climate change, perceive this phenomenon. The paper argues that the KaNyaka residents are part of local ecologies in which physical and spiritual worlds are entangled in everyday life. It also avers that for a better understanding and response to the adverse effects of climate change on the island, scientists at large must approach local communities as co-producers of knowledge. This relational approach allows the incorporation of worldviews that have been key in sustaining enfolding relationships between people and local ecology. It concludes that this approach opens the possibility of adaptation to climate change as an embedded socio-environmental phenomenon. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c87ea47ba444e128879d1fdae0960592023-12-10T06:15:50ZengElsevierClimate Risk Management2212-09632023-01-0142100564The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in MozambiqueMarlino Eugénio Mubai0Salomão Olinda Bandeira1Dactivo José Combane2Tim Daw3Taís Gonzalez4Elizabeth Maria Drury O'Neill5Maria Mancilla Garcia6Departamento de História, Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; Corresponding author.Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, MozambiqueUniversidade Eduardo Mondlane, Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Departamento de Teatro, MozambiqueResearcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, SwedenPh.D. Candidate at Free University of Brussels, Belgium (ULB), BelgiumThe Stockholm Resilience Center at Stockholm University, SwedenSocio-Environmental Dynamics Research Group at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium and Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, SwedenSmall islands are highly dependent on their natural endowments. Because of this dependency, they are more vulnerable to climate change. This paper builds on the assumption that a better understanding of the meaning of climate change in specific local contexts (from localized perspectives) opens up possibilities for climate change adaptations. Based on literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and forum theatre performances, the paper provides various perceptions of climate change effects from KaNyaka Island in Mozambique. It endeavors to further build the case for the integration of everyday-life experiences and observations of environmental processes in developing collective responses to climate change. The study does so by looking at the way island inhabitants, who are particularly vulnerable to climate change, perceive this phenomenon. The paper argues that the KaNyaka residents are part of local ecologies in which physical and spiritual worlds are entangled in everyday life. It also avers that for a better understanding and response to the adverse effects of climate change on the island, scientists at large must approach local communities as co-producers of knowledge. This relational approach allows the incorporation of worldviews that have been key in sustaining enfolding relationships between people and local ecology. It concludes that this approach opens the possibility of adaptation to climate change as an embedded socio-environmental phenomenon.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096323000906MozambiqueKaNyakaClimate changePerceptionAdaptation |
| spellingShingle | Marlino Eugénio Mubai Salomão Olinda Bandeira Dactivo José Combane Tim Daw Taís Gonzalez Elizabeth Maria Drury O'Neill Maria Mancilla Garcia The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique Climate Risk Management Mozambique KaNyaka Climate change Perception Adaptation |
| title | The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique |
| title_full | The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique |
| title_fullStr | The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique |
| title_full_unstemmed | The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique |
| title_short | The sacred and climate change: Local perceptions from KaNyaka island in Mozambique |
| title_sort | sacred and climate change local perceptions from kanyaka island in mozambique |
| topic | Mozambique KaNyaka Climate change Perception Adaptation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096323000906 |
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