TY - JOUR
T1 - Diverse pathways to climate change adaptation through a post development lens
T2 - the case of Tambaliza Island, Philippines
AU - See, Justin
AU - Mckinnon, Katharine
AU - Wilmsen, Brooke
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by La Trobe University: [Grant Number 2018-1-HDR-0015]. The authors would like to thank the residents of Tambaliza Island, Philippines for their participation in this study. Special thanks to the NGOs who accommodated us during fieldwork in Iloilo. We are also grateful to the barangay officials who shared their time and knowledge with us. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive feedback. Finally, we acknowledge that we live and work on unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Ngunnawal and Wurundjeri peoples, and pay our respect to Country and to the traditional custodians who have cared for Country for countless generations, and continue to do so today.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Climate change adaptation programmes are being actively planned and implemented around the world, but particularly in places where climate change is threatening liveability. Critical adaptation scholars warn that adaptation practice largely utilizes techno-managerial and market-based approaches which can effectively disempower local communities or re-distribute vulnerabilities to the most marginalized. To foreground alternatives to mainstream conceptions of ‘best practice’ in climate change adaptation, this paper draws upon postdevelopment perspectives. We present a theoretical framework to articulate the diverse, locally based, everyday adaptation response of local communities to climate change. Drawing on a small island in the Philippines as a case study, we discuss how community members respond to climate change through collective action, reciprocity, and advocacy to shape their own adaptation. A range of qualitative methods including focus groups, semi-structured interviews and participant observation reveal how community members devise their own strategies to exploit openings in politics, economy, and knowledge to advance their needs and agendas. Rather than relying on business-as-usual adaptation trajectories, this paper highlights the importance of diverse, spontaneous, and locally driven initiatives in imagining new visions for how to respond to climate change in the future.
AB - Climate change adaptation programmes are being actively planned and implemented around the world, but particularly in places where climate change is threatening liveability. Critical adaptation scholars warn that adaptation practice largely utilizes techno-managerial and market-based approaches which can effectively disempower local communities or re-distribute vulnerabilities to the most marginalized. To foreground alternatives to mainstream conceptions of ‘best practice’ in climate change adaptation, this paper draws upon postdevelopment perspectives. We present a theoretical framework to articulate the diverse, locally based, everyday adaptation response of local communities to climate change. Drawing on a small island in the Philippines as a case study, we discuss how community members respond to climate change through collective action, reciprocity, and advocacy to shape their own adaptation. A range of qualitative methods including focus groups, semi-structured interviews and participant observation reveal how community members devise their own strategies to exploit openings in politics, economy, and knowledge to advance their needs and agendas. Rather than relying on business-as-usual adaptation trajectories, this paper highlights the importance of diverse, spontaneous, and locally driven initiatives in imagining new visions for how to respond to climate change in the future.
KW - adaptation
KW - Climate change
KW - island community
KW - Philippines
KW - postdevelopment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124340279&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17565529.2022.2029340
DO - 10.1080/17565529.2022.2029340
M3 - Article
SN - 1756-5537
VL - 14
SP - 945
EP - 956
JO - Climate and Development
JF - Climate and Development
IS - 10
ER -