A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities |
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| Institution: | 1. CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, P.O. Box 2111, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia;2. CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2001, Australia;3. Center for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;4. University of Botswana, Department of Environmental Science, Private Bag 0022, Gaborone, Botswana;1. Transport Research Centre -TRANSyT-, Department of Transport and Territory, Technical University of Madrid, C/ Profesor Aranguren, 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain;2. Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;1. CSIRO Land and Water, Private Bag 5, Wembley, Western Australia 6913, Australia;2. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia;3. CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia;4. CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia;5. New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia;6. Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, CNRS – Université Grenoble Alpes, CS 40700, 38058 Grenoble Cedex 9, France;7. CSIRO Land and Water, Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, Queensland 4102, Australia;8. CSIRO Land and Water, PO Box 780, Atherton, Queensland 4883, Australia;9. Australian Resilience Centre, PO Box 271, Beechworth, Victoria 3747, Australia;1. School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Morven Brown Building Room G16, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;2. School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia;3. Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Architecture and Planning Building (Building 133), Parkville, VIC 3010, AUSTRALIA;4. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | We develop a systems framework for exploring adaptation pathways to climate change among people in remote and marginalized regions. The framework builds on two common and seemingly paradoxical narratives about people in remote regions. The first is recognition that people in remote regions demonstrate significant resilience to climate and resource variability, and may therefore be among the best equipped to adapt to climate change. The second narrative is that many people in remote regions are chronically disadvantaged and therefore are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. These narratives, taken in isolation and in extremis, can have significant maladaptive policy and practice implications. From a systems perspective, both narratives may be valid, because they form elements of latent and dominant feedback loops that require articulation for a nuanced understanding of vulnerability-reducing and resilience-building responses in a joint framework. Through literature review and community engagement across three remote regions on different continents, we test the potential of the framework to assist dialogue about adaptation pathways in remote marginalized communities. In an adaptation pathway view, short-term responses to vulnerability can risk locking in a pathway that increases specific resilience but creates greater vulnerability in the long-term. Equally, longer-term actions towards increasing desirable forms of resilience need to take account of short-term realities to respond to acute and multiple needs of marginalized remote communities. The framework was useful in uniting vulnerability and resilience narratives, and broadening the scope for adaptation policy and action on adaptation pathways for remote regions. |
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| Keywords: | Vulnerability Resilience Adaptive capacity Remoteness Marginalization Adaptation pathways |
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