NI: SUNRISE: Situated Understanding of Resilience in Island Societies and Environments

气候适应能力通常被定义为：(1)面对外部压力源（即气候影响）保持功能和/或(2)适应以更好地应对未来气候变化影响的能力。由于气温和海平面上升、土地流失以及极端天气风险增加，小岛屿特别容易受到气候变化的影响，因此气候适应能力是一个主要优先事项。然而，虽然多个岛屿国家和地区正在实践气候适应能力，但很少有学术研究在“岛屿性”的更大背景下考虑影响和适应的个别例子。现有的学术研究往往侧重于地理（例如太平洋）或社会经济（例如小岛屿发展中国家）分组内的岛屿。假定岛屿经验完全基于共同的地理空间或社会经济背景，而不是基于共同的“岛屿性”（基于小、有边界、孤立和碎片化的国家），这种孤立的方法阻碍了确定可转让做法的机会，限制了对气候复原力中与岛屿有关的问题的理解。可以说，这部分源于方法论上的缺陷。全球和区域气候影响评估中使用的方法往往不适合小岛屿，特别是环礁，气候模式提供地方尺度信息的能力特别有限。此外，关于岛屿社区现有的、基于文化的应对能力，以及这些特征在多大程度上促进了良好的适应（与应对不同，这涉及可持续的长期反应），特别是在与核心/城市地区相比数据稀缺的边缘/农村岛屿，所知甚少。通过建立一个关于岛屿气候适应能力的国际跨学科合作，SUNRISE将解决这些问题。通过在不同的岛屿环境（苏格兰群岛、毛里求斯、斐济）中应用他们的互补技能和专业知识，该研究小组将开发新的方法，弥合气候影响研究中如何考虑岛屿的差距。SUNRISE将通过一系列焦点小组和家庭调查来试点新的方法，这些调查以对气候变化影响的看法为中心，并根据基于地点、基于文化的气候和环境数据的使用情况提供信息。在此过程中，SUNRISE将寻求在小岛屿经验的更广泛背景下，将基于地点的气候影响和弹性实践的各种个体例子置于环境中。

Climate resilience is generally defined as the capacity to: (1) maintain function in the face of external stressors (i.e. climate impacts) and/or (2) adapt so as to be better prepared for future climate change impacts. Small islands are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change due to rising temperatures and sea levels, land loss, and increasing extreme weather risks, making climate resilience a major priority. Yet, while climate resilience is being practiced across multiple island states and regions, there is little scholarship that considers individual examples of impacts and adaptations in the larger context of 'islandness'. Existing scholarship tends to focus on islands within geographical (e.g. Pacific) or socio-economic (e.g. Small Island Developing States, or SIDS) groupings. By assuming that island experiences are grounded solely in shared geographical space or socio-economic contexts, rather than shared 'islandness' (grounded in states of smallness, boundedness, isolation and fragmentation), this siloed approach stymies opportunities to identify transferable practices, limiting understanding of island-related issues in climate resilience.Arguably, this stems in part from methodological deficits. Approaches used in global and regional climate impact assessments are often poorly suited to small islands and especially atolls, with climate models especially constrained in their ability to provide information on local scales. Additionally, little is known about the existing, culturally-grounded coping capacity of island communities, and to what extent these traits promote good adaptation (which, unlike coping, involves sustainable long-term responses), particularly in peripheral/rural islands where data is scarce compared to core/urban areas. Through the establishment of an international, interdisciplinary collaboration on island climate resilience, SUNRISE will address these issues. By applying their complimentary skills and expertise in a diverse set of island contexts (Scotish Isles, Mauritius, Fiji), the research team will develop new approaches that bridge the gaps around how islandness is accounted for in climate impacts research. SUNRISE will pilot new approaches through a series of focus groups and household surveys centred on perceptions of climate change impacts, informed by place-based, culturally-grounded usage of climate and environmental data. In doing so, SUNRISE will seek to situate varied, individual examples of place-based climate impacts and resilient practice within the wider context of small island experiences.