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McMichael C, Powell T, Piggott-McKellar AE, Yee M. Climate change and the planned relocation of people: A longitudinal analysis of Vunidogoloa, Fiji. AMBIO 2025:10.1007/s13280-024-02120-6. [PMID: 39775408 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02120-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2024] [Revised: 11/21/2024] [Accepted: 12/06/2024] [Indexed: 01/11/2025]
Abstract
Rising sea levels under a changing climate will cause permanent inundation, flooding, coastal erosion, and saltwater intrusion. An emerging adaptation response is planned relocation, a directed process of relocating people, assets, and infrastructure to safer locations. Climate-related planned relocation is an unfolding process, yet no longitudinal studies have examined outcomes over time. Vunidogoloa, a low-lying coastal village in Fiji, relocated to higher land in 2014. This paper considers the dynamic outcomes of relocation, based on qualitative data collected between 2015 and 2023. It examines: residents' changing experience of climate and environmental risk; governance and decision-making processes over time; improved access to many resources and services along with incomplete infrastructure; opportunities and threats to health; and changing social organization and place-based values. The paper foregrounds change over time and provides in-depth examination of dynamic planned relocation experiences and (mal)adaptation outcomes in Vunidogoloa, Fiji.
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- Celia McMichael
- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Peterson TD, Domingo A, Stadler D, Werner L, Needoba JA, Walker S, Liu BS, Hatfield J. An Interprofessional Approach to Prepare Medical Residents and Fellows to Address Climate- and Environment-Related Health Risks. J Grad Med Educ 2024; 16:5-10. [PMID: 39677916 PMCID: PMC11644577 DOI: 10.4300/jgme-d-24-00109.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2024] Open
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- Tawnya D. Peterson
- Tawnya D. Peterson, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Health and Program Director, Master of Public Health Program in Environmental Systems & Human Health, Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University (OHSU-PSU) School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Alexander Domingo, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine, OHSU Primary Care Clinic, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Diane Stadler, PhD, RD, LD, is Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Director, Graduate Programs in Human Nutrition and Dietetic Internship, Division of General Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Leah Werner, MD, CCHC, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Medicine, OHSU Primary Care Clinic, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Joseph A. Needoba, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Health, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Sara Walker, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Director, Psychology Division, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Benjamin S. Liu, MD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Unity Center for Behavioral Health and Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; and
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- Joanna Hatfield, MD, FACOG, is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, OHSU Center for Women’s Health, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Adger WN, Fransen S, Safra de Campos R, Clark WC. Migration and sustainable development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2206193121. [PMID: 38190541 PMCID: PMC10801908 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206193121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration of a range of population movements and their feedback across space and time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at the interface of migration studies, demography, and sustainability, focusing on consequences of migration flows for nature-society interactions including on societal outcomes such as inequality; environmental causes and consequences of involuntary displacement; and processes of cultural convergence in sustainability practices in dynamic new populations. We advance a framework that demonstrates how migration outcomes result in identifiable consequences on resources, environmental burdens and well-being, and on innovation, adaptation, and challenges for sustainability governance. We elaborate the research frontiers of migration for sustainability science, explicitly integrating the full spectrum of regular migration decisions dominated by economic motives through to involuntary displacement due to social or environmental stresses. Migration can potentially contribute to sustainability transitions when it enhances well-being while not exacerbating structural inequalities or compound uneven burdens on environmental resources.
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- William Neil Adger
- Department of Geography, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, ExeterEX4 4RJ, United Kingdom
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- United Nations University–Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, and School of Economics and Business, Maastricht University, Maastricht6211 AX, The Netherlands
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- Global Systems Institute, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, ExeterEX4 4RJ, United Kingdom
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- Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138
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