Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa.

ABSTRACT: Recent debates on climate mobilities have largely ignored the dynamics of mobility patterns including short-distance and short-duration circular movements to enhance adaptative capacity and resilience of households and individuals, enabling them to remain in place despite facing increasingly severe climatic risks. This paper explores Pacific Islanders' climate-related mobilities with reference to cases from Samoa. It first conceptualizes Samoan mobility, which is rooted in Samoan culture, norms and worldviews, and then uses this as a framework to examine ways in which people shift and diversify their residential locations for climate-associated reasons. The study employs a comparative case study approach using conversational (the Pacific-originated talanoa-style) interviews with 40

SUBMITTER: Latai-Niusulu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10505846 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature