移民,归属和环礁岛屿的可持续性通过不断变化的气候变化
1School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010.
概括
气候变化推动了来自环礁岛屿的移民. 然而,归属可以通过连接移民和居民,创造机会和减轻风险来促进社区的可持续性.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
背景情况:
- 气候变化正在加速低环礁岛屿的外迁,引发人们对它们最终被遗弃的担忧.
- 来自环礁的移民存在分歧:它可以减轻脆弱环境的人口压力,但也可以压缩气候适应所需的资源.
- 环礁社区的可持续性受到环境压力和人类流动性复杂相互作用的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 分析"归属"作为环礁岛屿迁移中的统一力量的作用.
- 调查移民,归属感和社区可持续性是如何相互联系的.
- 探索不同的环礁社区中,归属如何影响迁移结果的不同程度.
主要方法:
- 从三个太平洋环礁岛屿的实例研究中收集定性和定量数据:尼乌,南德里克环礁 (马歇尔群岛) 和布迪布迪环礁 (巴布亚新几内亚).
- 分析移民模式,归属概念和人口和社区可持续性指标之间的关系.
- 检查移民的经济机会和通信基础设施如何调解归属感和集体承诺.
主要成果:
- 归属作为一个中心力量,将移民转化为一个可以增强环礁人口可持续性的过程.
- 在尼乌岛,南德里克环礁和布迪布迪环礁,共同的归属感连接了居民和移民人口.
- 这种联系的强度及其对可持续性的影响因移民的经济机会和支持扩大社区联系的基础设施而异.
结论:
- 来自环礁岛屿的移民,通常是由气候变化驱动的,当受到强烈的归属感的支时,可以成为加强社区可持续性的途径.
- 促进对连续性的集体承诺需要解决移民的经济差异,并保持强大的社区间基础设施.
- 归属的概念对于理解和管理气候诱导的迁移的复杂动态以及确保环礁岛屿人口的长期生存能力至关重要.
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