Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon
Climate adaptation tends to face resistance or produce adverse effects, if it is tested only on the generalist scientific models, ignoring its effects on the culture, values, and worldviews of local communities. This article investigates how climate change has threatened the livelihood and cultur...
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Climate adaptation tends to face resistance or produce adverse effects, if it is tested only on the generalist scientific models, ignoring its effects on the culture, values, and worldviews of local communities. This article investigates how climate change has threatened the livelihood and cultural dimensions of peri-urban communities in the Central Amazon. The analysis is based on the cultural theory of risk in climate adaptation and its relationships to local Ecosystem Services (ES). In this case study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with residents of three municipalities in the Metropolitan Area of Manaus-Brazil. Given that their diet used to be heavily based on native food, the results show how Amazonian communities are adapting their eating habits in response to climate and environmental changes to the ES decline in the category of food security (i.e., in the class of provisioning ES). In addition, these services have relevant cultural value (i.e., cultural services). The ES reduction influences adaptation strategies amid the dismantling of current environmental policies. As a result, these communities began to adopt industrialized means of production and consumption, such as adopting products derived from cattle, whose production is the main cause of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil. Therefore, the studied case demonstrates how climate adaptation may pressure and erode local cultures, when these following the logic of globalized urbanization.
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| spelling | doaj.art-466f8d1e63f849fc8d6378bb6fab74072023-09-01T16:42:49ZengUniversidade de BrasíliaSustentabilidade em Debate2177-76752179-90672023-08-0114210.18472/SustDeb.v14n2.2023.45461Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central AmazonMoara Almeida Canova0Jaqueline Nichi1Amasa Ferreira Carvalho2Niklas Werner Weins3Marcelo Rezende Calça Soeira4Sonia Regina da Cal Seixas5Ph.D. in Environment and Society, Researcher, Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture (Cepagri), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, BrazilMaster’s degree in Sustainability, PhD Student, Center for Environmental Studies and Research (Nepam), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, BraziMaster’s degree in Environmental Sciences, PhD Student, Center for Environmental Studies and Research (Nepam), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, BrazilPhD in Environment and Society, Researcher, Center for Environmental Studies and Research (Nepam), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, BrazilMaster’s Degree in Urban Infrastructure Systems, Ph.D. student, Center for Environmental Studies and Research (Nepam), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, BrazilPhD in Social Sciences, Senior researcher, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, Brazil Climate adaptation tends to face resistance or produce adverse effects, if it is tested only on the generalist scientific models, ignoring its effects on the culture, values, and worldviews of local communities. This article investigates how climate change has threatened the livelihood and cultural dimensions of peri-urban communities in the Central Amazon. The analysis is based on the cultural theory of risk in climate adaptation and its relationships to local Ecosystem Services (ES). In this case study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with residents of three municipalities in the Metropolitan Area of Manaus-Brazil. Given that their diet used to be heavily based on native food, the results show how Amazonian communities are adapting their eating habits in response to climate and environmental changes to the ES decline in the category of food security (i.e., in the class of provisioning ES). In addition, these services have relevant cultural value (i.e., cultural services). The ES reduction influences adaptation strategies amid the dismantling of current environmental policies. As a result, these communities began to adopt industrialized means of production and consumption, such as adopting products derived from cattle, whose production is the main cause of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil. Therefore, the studied case demonstrates how climate adaptation may pressure and erode local cultures, when these following the logic of globalized urbanization. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sust/article/view/45461climate change cultural ecosystem servicesadaptation strategiesperi-urban citiesresilient communities |
| spellingShingle | Moara Almeida Canova Jaqueline Nichi Amasa Ferreira Carvalho Niklas Werner Weins Marcelo Rezende Calça Soeira Sonia Regina da Cal Seixas Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon Sustentabilidade em Debate climate change cultural ecosystem services adaptation strategies peri-urban cities resilient communities |
| title | Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon |
| title_full | Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon |
| title_fullStr | Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon |
| title_short | Cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the Ecosystem Services in a case study of Central Amazon |
| title_sort | cultural aspects for adaptation to the climate change impacts on the ecosystem services in a case study of central amazon |
| topic | climate change cultural ecosystem services adaptation strategies peri-urban cities resilient communities |
| url | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sust/article/view/45461 |
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