Ha’apio, Michael O. and Wairiu, Morgan and Gonzalez, Ricardo and Morrison, Keith (2018) Transformation of rural communities: Lessons from a local self-initiative for building resilience in the Solomon Islands. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 23 . pp. 352-365. ISSN 1354-9839
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Solomon Islands is vulnerable to negative impacts from climate change,
where people’s livelihoods and their well-being are threatened,
especially the viability of isolated communities. Realising the increasing
risks from climate change on communities, government, in partnership
with aid-donor partners, has invested millions of dollars in climate
change projects, through mitigation and adaptation strategies. As a form
of adaptation, the government invests in programmes aimed at
increasing the adaptive capacity of the vulnerable communities through
landscape and seascape projects across the rural communities. Focusing
on the “transformation concept” as a long-term adaptation strategy and
enlargement of climate engineering and ecological resilience concepts,
the paper discusses why building resilience from transformation of rural
communities, as well as from landscape and seascape projects, would
benefit communities and relevant authorities. This paper describes the
findings of a study on two rural villages, Keigold and Mondo, from
Ranogha Islands, Western Province, in Solomon Islands, where 80% of
households decided to relocate from their old village “Mondo” to their
new home “Keigold” after an earthquake in 2007, as part of a selfinitiative.
The reallocation process can be seen as a case of pro-active
community transformation that provides valuable lessons to other rural
communities that may be forced to move due to impacts from natural
catastrophes, including those explained by climate change risks. Lessons
from this experience suggest that policy-makers and non-government
organisations should consider and empower local transformation
initiatives as a way to building long-term adaptation to climate change.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD) |
| Depositing User: | Generic Email |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2018 03:17 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2018 03:17 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/10592 |
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