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

气候复原力通常被定义为：(1)在面对外部压力(即气候影响)时保持功能和/或(2)适应，以便更好地为未来的气候变化影响做好准备。由于气温和海平面上升、土地流失和极端天气风险增加，小岛屿特别容易受到气候变化的影响，这使得气候适应能力成为主要优先事项。然而，尽管气候复原力在多个岛屿国家和地区得到了实践，但很少有学术机构将影响和适应的个别例子放在更大的“孤岛”背景下考虑。现有的学术研究往往侧重于地理(如太平洋)或社会经济(如小岛屿发展中国家或小岛屿发展中国家)群体内的岛屿。这种孤立的做法假定岛屿的经验完全植根于共享的地理空间或社会经济背景，而不是共享的“孤岛”(植根于狭小、有边界、孤立和支离破碎的状态)，从而阻碍了确定可转让做法的机会，限制了对与岛屿有关的气候适应能力问题的理解。在全球和区域气候影响评估中使用的方法往往不太适合小岛屿，尤其是环礁，气候模型在提供当地尺度信息的能力方面尤其受到限制。此外，关于岛屿社区现有的、有文化基础的应对能力以及这些特点在多大程度上促进良好的适应(与应对不同，这涉及可持续的长期反应)，人们知之甚少，特别是在数据与核心/城市地区相比稀缺的外围/农村岛屿。通过建立一个关于岛屿气候适应能力的国际跨学科合作，日出将解决这些问题。通过在不同的岛屿背景(苏格兰、毛里求斯、斐济)中应用他们的互补技能和专业知识，研究小组将开发新的方法，弥合在气候影响研究中如何解释岛屿的差距。日出将通过一系列以气候变化影响感知为中心的重点小组和家庭调查，试验新的方法，了解基于地点、基于文化的气候和环境数据的使用情况。在这样做的过程中，日出将寻求在小岛屿经验的更广泛的背景下，将各种以地方为基础的气候影响和复原力做法的个体例子放在一起。

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.