Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds: The role of Indigenous and local knowledge in Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds: The role of Indigenous and local knowledge in Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
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将气候变化适应置于多元世界中：土著和地方知识在瓦努阿图五旬节岛的作用
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2022
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R. Crease
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Allan Rarai;Meg Parsons;M. Nursey;R. Crease
学者、实践者和决策者越来越认识到，土著知识可以在促进适应气候变化方面发挥重要作用。然而，适应性理论和适应性理论仍然压倒性地位于欧洲现代本体论中，目前，多元本体论或存在和认识的替代方式的空间仍然有限。在本文中，并使用太平洋作为我们的案例研究，我们提出了一个参数，包括多个本体适应政策制定。太平洋地区的适应政策和干预措施往往优先考虑西方科学知识，并侧重于通过外国专家和供资机构指导的技术修复来应对个别气候风险。它们还植根于一个政策架构，这是该地区殖民化的产物。尽管存在这些障碍，太平洋岛民对气候变化的反应是动态的，包括他们工作的多种和相互竞争的本体论，为欧洲现代和太平洋岛民的世界观如何结合起来提供了见解，以建立适应能力并巩固社区的复原力。亮点·土著知识在瓦努阿图某些地区增强适应能力和促进气候变化适应方面发挥着至关重要的作用·尼瓦努阿图人采用动态应对气候风险的方法，将多种知识体系和知识融合在一起·不同知识体系的共存有助于深入了解增强适应能力和巩固社区适应能力的因素·不同的世界观，气候适应主要建立在西方本体论的基础上，但也需要考虑非西方的本体论和认识论。
Scholars, practitioners, and decision-makers are increasingly recognising that Indigenous knowledge can play a significant role in facilitating adaptation to climate change. Yet, adaptation theorising and practises remain overwhelmingly situated within Euromodern ontologies, and there remains limited space, at present, for plural ontologies or alternative ways of being and knowing. In this paper, and using the Pacific as our case study, we present an argument for the inclusion of multiple ontologies within adaptation policymaking. Pacific adaptation policies and interventions frequently privilege Western scientific knowledge and focus on addressing individual climate risks through technical fixes directed by foreign experts and funding agencies. They are also rooted in a policy architecture that is an artefact of colonisation in the region. Despite these obstacles, Pacific Islander responses to climate change are dynamic, and inclusive of the multiple and competing ontologies they work within, offering insights into how Euromodern and Pacific islander world views could coalesce to builds adaptive capacity and consolidate community resilience into the future. Highlights • Indigenous Knowledge plays a critical role in enabling resilience and facilitating climate change adaptation in some parts of Vanuatu • Ni-Vanuatu people employ dynamic responses to climate risks incorporating multiple knowledge systems and practises • Co-existence of different knowledge systems provide insights into factors that enable adaptive capacity and consolidate community resilience • Diverse worldviews, knowledge systems and practises with Pacific Island cultures highlights the importance of thinking about ontological pluralism within adaptation • Climate adaptation is principally founded on Western ontologies, but there is a need consider non-Western ontologies and epistemologies.