Book contents
- Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
- Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation: Introduction
- Part I Knowing our Weather and Climate
- 2 Forest, Reef and Sea-Level Rise in North Vanuatu: Seasonal Environmental Practices and Climate Fluctuations in Island Melanesia
- 3 Annual Cycles in Indigenous North-Western Amazon: A Collaborative Research Towards Climate Change Monitoring
- 4 Indigenous Knowledge in the Time of Climate Change (with Reference to Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia)
- 5 Local Responses to Variability and Climate Change by Zoque Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico
- 6 Climate Knowledge of Ch’ol Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
- Part II Our Changing Homelands
- Part III Confronting Extreme Events
- Part IV Sources of Indigenous Strength and Resilience
- Index
- References
2 - Forest, Reef and Sea-Level Rise in North Vanuatu: Seasonal Environmental Practices and Climate Fluctuations in Island Melanesia
from Part I - Knowing our Weather and Climate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 September 2018
Book contents
- Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
- Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation: Introduction
- Part I Knowing our Weather and Climate
- 2 Forest, Reef and Sea-Level Rise in North Vanuatu: Seasonal Environmental Practices and Climate Fluctuations in Island Melanesia
- 3 Annual Cycles in Indigenous North-Western Amazon: A Collaborative Research Towards Climate Change Monitoring
- 4 Indigenous Knowledge in the Time of Climate Change (with Reference to Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia)
- 5 Local Responses to Variability and Climate Change by Zoque Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico
- 6 Climate Knowledge of Ch’ol Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
- Part II Our Changing Homelands
- Part III Confronting Extreme Events
- Part IV Sources of Indigenous Strength and Resilience
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
References
Ballu, V., Bouin, M.-N., Siméoni, P. et al. 2011. Comparing the role of absolute sea-level rise and vertical tectonic motions in coastal flooding, Torres Islands (Vanuatu). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(32): 13019–22.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barnett, J. and Campbell, J. 2010. Climate Change and Small Island States: Power, Knowledge and the South Pacific. London: Earthscan.Google Scholar
Bartlett, C. 2009. Emergce, Evolution and Outcomes of Maine Protected Areas in Vanuatu: Implications for social-ecological governance, unpublished PhD Thesis, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.Google Scholar
Cai, W., Lengaigne, M., Borlace, S. et al. 2012. More extreme swings of the South Pacific convergence zone due to greenhouse warming. Nature, 488(7411): 365–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castree, N. 2015. The ‘three cultures’ problem in global change research. EnviroSociety. 9 March, www.envirosociety.org/2015/03/the-three-cultures-problem-in-global-change-researchGoogle Scholar
Cronin, S. J., Gaylord, D. R., Charley, D. et al. 2004. Participatory methods of incorporating scientific with traditional knowledge for volcanic hazard management on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Bulletin of Vulcanology, 66(7): 652–68.Google Scholar
CSIRO (n.d.) The Environments of Vanuatu. A Classification And Atlas of the Natural Resources of Vanuatu and their Current Use as Determined from VANRIS. Brisbane: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO Brisbane) and the Australian Department of Primary Industries Forest Service.Google Scholar
Davies, H. L. 2002. Tsunamis and the coastal communities of Papua New Guinea. In Torrence, R. and Grattan, J. (eds.) Natural Disasters and Culture Change. London: Routledge, pp. 28–42.Google Scholar
Dominguez Rubio, F. and Baert, P. (eds.). 2012. The Politics of Knowledge. New York: RoutledgeGoogle Scholar
François, A. 2013. Shadows of bygone lives. The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu. In Mailhammer, R. (ed.) Lexical and Structural Etymology: Beyond Word Histories, Studies in Language Change. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 185–244.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galipaud, J-C. 1998. Recherches archéologiques aux îles Torres. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 107(2): 159–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galipaud, J.-C. 2002. Under the volcano: Ni-Vanuatu and their environment. In Torrence, R. and Grattan, J. (eds.) Natural Disasters and Culture Change. London: Routledge, pp. 162–71.Google Scholar
GIZ-ACCPIR. 2009. GTZ Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region, Summary. Deutsche Gesselschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). www.spc.int/lrd/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=210&Itemid=48Google Scholar
Hay, J. E., Mimura, N., Campbell, J. et al. 2003. Climate Variability and Change and Sea-level rise in the Pacific Islands Region: A Resource Book for Policy and Decision Makers, Educators and other Stakeholders. Apia, Samoa: SPREP.Google Scholar
Hviding, E. 1996. Nature, culture, magic, science: On meta-languages for comparison in cultural ecology. In Descola, P. and Pálsson, G. (eds.) Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 165–85.Google Scholar
Hviding, E. 2005. Reef and Rainforest: An Environmental Encyclopedia of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands/Kiladi oro vivineidi ria tingitonga pa idere oro pa goana pa Marovo. Paris: UNESCO.Google Scholar
Hviding, E. and Bayliss-Smith, T. 2000. Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, logging and eco-tourism in Solomon Islands. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.Google Scholar
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). 2013. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T. F., Qin, D., Plattner, G.-K. et al. (eds.)] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Jacka, J. 2009. Global averages, local extremes: The subtleties and complexities of climate change in Papua New Guinea. In Crate, S. and Nuttall, M. (eds.) Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, pp. 197–208.Google Scholar
Jasanoff, S. 2004. The idiom of co-production. In Jasanoff, S. (ed.) States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order. New York: Routledge, pp. 1–12.Google Scholar
Kwa’ioloa, M. and Burt, B. 2001. Our Forest of Kwara’ae. Our Life in the Solomon Islands and the Things Growing in our Home. London: The British Museum Press.Google Scholar
Lahsen, M. 2010. The social status of climate change knowledge: An editorial essay. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(2): 162–71.Google Scholar
Lazrus, H. 2012. Sea change: Island communities and climate change. Annual Review of Anthropology, 41: 285–301.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leach, J. 2012. ‘Step inside: Knowledge freely available’. The politics of (making) knowledge objects. In Dominguez Rubio, F. and Baert, P. (eds.) The Politics of Knowledge. New York: Routledge, pp. 79–95.Google Scholar
McCarter, J. and Gavin, M. C. 2014. Situ maintenance of traditional ecological knowledge on Malekula Island, Vanuatu. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 27(11): 1115–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mondragón, C. 2004. Of winds, worms and mana: The traditional calendar of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu. Oceania, 74(4): 289–308.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mondragón, C. 2009. Encarnando a los espíritus en la Melanesia: La innovación como continuidad en el norte de Vanuatu. In Fournier, P., Mondragón, C. and Wiesheu, W. (eds.) Ritos de Paso: Antropología y Arqueología de las Religiones, vol. 3. México: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, pp. 121–49.Google Scholar
Mondragón, C. 2012. The Meanings of Mana in North Vanuatu: Cosmological dualism, Christianity and Shifting Forms of Efficacious Potency in the Torres Islands. Unpublished paper presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.Google Scholar
Mondragón, C. 2014. Un Entramado de Islas: Persona, Territorio y Cambio Climático en el Pacífico Occidental. México: El Colegio de México.Google Scholar
Mondragón, C. 2015. Concealment, revelation and cosmological dualism. Visibility, materiality and the spiritscape of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu. Cahiers d’Anthropologie Sociale: Montrer/occulter. Visibilité et Contextes Rituels. Paris: Éditions L’Herne, pp. 38–50.Google Scholar
Muliagetele, J. R. 2007. An Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security in the Pacific. A Case Study in Vanuatu Apia, Samoa: Pacific Environment Consultants Ltd., prepared for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands (FAO SAPA).Google Scholar
Nakalevu, T. 2006. Capacity Building for the Development of Adaptation Measures in Pacific Island Countries Project, Final Report, Apia, Samoa: SPREP.Google Scholar
Pelling, M. 2011. Adaptation to Climate Change. From Resilience to Transformation. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Rio, K. 2007. The Power of Perspective. Societal Ontology and Agency on Ambryn Island, Vanuatu. Oxford: Berghahn.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodman, M. 1987. Moving houses. Residential mobility and the mobility of residences in Longana, Vanuatu. American Anthropologist, 87: 56–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubinstein, R. L. 1981. Knowledge and political process on Malo. In Allen, M. (ed.) Vanuatu. Politics, Economics and Ritual in Island Melanesia. Sydney: Academic Press Australia, pp. 135–72.Google Scholar
Rudiak-Gould, P. 2013. Climate change and tradition in a small island state. The Rising Tide. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
SPREP. 2011. Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006–2015, 2nd edn. APIA, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). www.sprep.org/attachments/Publications/PIFACC-ref.pdfGoogle Scholar
Taylor, J. 2008. The Other Side. Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torrence, R. 2002. What makes a disaster? A long-term view of volcanic eruptions and human responses in Papua New Guinea. In Torrence, R. and Grattan, J. (eds.) Natural Disasters and Culture Change. London: Routledge, pp. 292–312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). 2005. Pacific Island villagers first climate change refugees. UN Environment Builds Bridges Between Vulnerable Peoples in the Arctic and Small Islands. UNEP Press Release. www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?DocumentID=459&ArticleID=5066&I=enGoogle Scholar
Waddell, E. 1975. How the Enga coped with frost: Responses to climatic perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Human Ecology, 4(4): 249–73.Google Scholar
Warrick, O. 2011. The adaptive capacity of the Tegua island community, Torres Islands, Vanuatu. Report for the Department of the Environment, Australian Government. www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/adaptation/publications/adaptive-capacity-tegua-island-community-torres-islands-torba-province-vanuatuGoogle Scholar
Weightman, B. 1989. Agriculture in Vanuatu. Cheam, UK: The British Friends of Vanuatu.Google Scholar
Wescott, J. 2012. The Good Lake, the Possible Sea: Ethics and Environment in Northern Vanuatu. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of California, San Diego.Google Scholar
Wheatley, J. I. 1992. A Guide to the Common Trees of Vanuatu. With lists of their Traditional Uses and ni-Vanuatu names. Port Vila: Vanuatu Department of Forestry.Google Scholar
- 5
- Cited by