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Title: | What is shaping vulnerability to climate change? : the case of Laamu Atoll, Maldives |
Authors: | McNamara, Karen E. Clissold, Rachel Piggott-McKellar, Annah Buggy, Lisa Azfa, Aishath |
Keywords: | climate change, Maldives, peripherality, sea level rise, small islands, vulnerability |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island |
Citation: | McNamara, K.E ; Clissold, R. ; Piggott-McKellar. A ; Buggy, L. ; Azfa, A. (2019). What is shaping vulnerability to climate change? : the case of Laamu Atoll, Maldives. Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island 14(1), 81-100 |
Abstract: | As climate change accelerates, it brings with it numerous challenges to society and
the natural world. Concepts such as vulnerability have emerged as a way of trying to understand
people’s risk, despite there being a range of variables that can influence vulnerability and
its temporal and spatial dimensions. Drawing from the well-known conceptualisation
of vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, this paper
seeks to understand what variables are influencing and shaping vulnerability in Laamu
Atoll, the Maldives, and produce a base of knowledge for future vulnerability reduction
initiatives. Household questionnaires (n=412) were used on Laamu Atoll to ascertain locals’
perceptions of vulnerability based on livelihood resources, financial security, and
climate-change experiences. Results show that peripherality, as a notion that describes the
disparities between ‘core’ and ‘peripheral’ islands, is a key factor shaping vulnerability
variables on Laamu Atoll. This has prompted an overarching recommendation for
peripherality to be considered as a key dimension of vulnerability to climate change and an
important consideration for existing and future human development and climate change
policy and practice in Small Island Developing States. |
URI: | http://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/15279 |
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