#Liviana2021 - Session 14

#Liviana2021

Session 14

Postdevelopment Approaches towards Just and Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change

10th November (Wednesday)
11pm New York
11th November (Thursday)
1am Buenos Aires5am Paris7am Istanbul11am-1pm Bangkok3pm Sydney

Abstract

As the adverse impacts of climate change exacerbate over the next few decades, researchers and practitioners look for precedence to inform climate change adaptation praxis. Mainstream adaptation discourses and approaches are often top-down, relying on techno-infrastructural solutions such as building seawalls, elevating roads, and diversifying livelihoods. While these measures may increase people's resilience, critical literature suggests that these processes are rarely egalitarian with unevenly distributed benefits. This backdrop brings front-and-centre the importance of just adaptation to climate change. This session will highlight practice-based and community-based lessons to guide adaptation responses in supporting social justice, environmental integrity, and sustainability. Drawing from the lens of postdevelopment, care ethics, and diverse economies, the session will bring to the fore the various community-driven initiatives that actors in communities, markets, NGOs, or local governments take in adapting to climate change. We highly welcome presentations highlighting the importance of community capacities, relationships, and local-indigenous knowledge concerning adaptation from global environmental change vis-à-vis extreme weather events. Presentations by, from, and about communities from the Global South are especially encouraged.

List of presenters

Kelly Dombroski (University of Canterbury) and Huong Thi Do (Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Climate Change)

Diverse More-than-Human Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Thai Binh, Vietnam

Justin See (University of Canberra)

Diverse Pathways to Climate Adaptation through a Postdevelopment Lens: Examples from Tambaliza Island in the Philippines

Suliasi Vunibola (University of Canterbury)

Indigenous Innovations and Climate Resilience: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Climate Smart Agricultural Approach in the Pacific

Ginbert Cuaton (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Yvonne Su (York University)

Promises and Pitfall of Social Capital to Climate Change Adaptation of an Indigenous Cultural Community in the Philippines

Convenors

Justin See

Ginbert Cuaton

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