Local perceptions of climate change impacts and migration patterns in Malé, Maldives

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14560/17:00095861 RIV/62156489:43110/17:43909816 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10326723

Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geoj.12177/abstract" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geoj.12177/abstract</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12177" target="_blank" >10.1111/geoj.12177</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local perceptions of climate change impacts and migration patterns in Malé, Maldives

Original language description

For the last few decades, Maldives has been seen as being at the forefront of addressing climate change impacts. The low elevation of the islands makes them vulnerable to slow-onset hazards, such as coastal erosion, sea-level rise, salinity intrusion, and change in monsoon patterns and hence rainfall. Consequently, migration has long been discussed as an adaptation strategy for the population. This study covers outcomes from our field research conducted among islanders in Male, the capital of Maldives, in 2013. It contributes empirical evidence toward understanding complex relations among environmental challenges, climate change, and migration. We set up two main research questions. The first question explored islanders' perceptions of impacts of climatic variability in recent years and possible impacts of future climate change. The second question probed whether out-migration from the islands might be considered to be an adaptation strategy and whether the islanders were willing to move outside Maldives due to projected climate change impacts. We conducted our field research in the capital Male and nearby residential islands, using quantitative questionnaires with local respondents (N=347). Our results suggest that, besides a set of actually experienced environmental and climate challenges, slow-onset climate change impacts such as sea-level rise are perceived as being one of the key factors affecting Maldivian society and livelihoods. More than 50% of respondents perceive future sea-level rise to be a serious challenge at the national level and they accept that migration from islands to other countries might be a potential option. Conversely, from the individual perspective, sea-level rise is not perceived by the local population as being one of their own important challenges. The reason is that many other factors - cultural, religious, economic and social - play an important role in decisionmaking about migrating or not.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geographical Journal

ISSN

0016-7398

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

183

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

370-385

UT code for WoS article

000414464300006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84978198929