Adapting to Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: The Problem of Uncertainty

By J. Barnett. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

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Migration, development and environment (2008, unknown): “Others too have pointed to how this ‘doomsday scenario’ has diverted attention away from the adaptation and mitigation strategies that are required to deal with the problems being faced by atoll countries (Farbotko 2005; Adger et al. 2003; Barnett 2001).”
The macro-economic impact of disasters (2002, background): “Unfortunately, many of the costs of disasters are highly variable and difficult to identify, and cost/benefit analysis to make this judgement more transparent is in its infancy (Dedeurwaerdere, 1998; Barnett, 2001).”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “…human history in the Pacific Islands to promote resilience, even though they have been portrayed negatively in terms of promoting dependency (see Barnett The examples presented are, of course, cases of coping with present-day vulnerability to variability in weather, rather than cases of…”
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities? (2004, background): “Social vulnerability scholars appear to prefer social exposure units such as households, communities (Adger, 1999), or in some cases small nations (Barnett, 2001) or all nations (Brooks and Adger, 2004).”
Does climate policy need probabilities (2003, background): “Barnett, G. S. Jones, D. M. H. Sexton and M. J. Webb (2003) Quantifying uncertainties in climate change from a large ensemble of general circulation model predictions.”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “No-regrets interventions are useful for hedging climate exposure because of the uncertainty over climate scenarios (e.g., Barnett, 2001).”
Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change (2005, background): “Errors of judgment are often most serious when levels of uncertainty are high (Patt and Zeckhauser, 2002; Rabin, 1998), which matches precisely the context within which adaptation must take place (Barnett, 2001).”
The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in 10 OECD Countries: Challenges and Approaches (2012, background): “Thus, science plays an important role in the governance of adaptation, in particular, in terms of (a) developing climate scenarios in general, (b) assessing the variations of regional impacts and vulnerabilities in particular, (c) identifying resulting adaptation needs, options, and priorities, and ”
Operationalising a resilience approach to adapting an urban delta to uncertain climate changes (2010, methodology): “A resilient system should also encompass the dynamics to accommodate trends and co-evolve; to ‘bounce back in better shape’ [15,16].”
Firm relocation as adaptive response to climate change and weather extremes (2011, background): “(Barnett, 2001)”