Handbook on Climate Change Vulnerability, Environments and Communities

Edited by Fiona Miller, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University, Krishna K. Shrestha, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales and Sarah Wright, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia

• Contents1 Imagining climate futures differently beyond vulnerability 1Fiona Miller, Krishna K. Shrestha and Sarah WrightPART I RECONCEPTUALISING VULNERABILITY2 Agency and the capacity to adapt: addressing gendered vulnerabilities toclimate change 20Nitya Rao3 Affected by the weather, distracted by the climate: towards an embodiedepistemology of time 36Yvonne Te Ruki-Rangi-o-Tangaroa Underhill-Sem4 Climate change, migration and livelihoods: responding to or reproducingvulnerability? 53Ramesh Sunam, Dipak Bishwokarma and Kumar Darjee5 Neoliberal vulnerabilization and subjectivities in Rwanda and São Toméand Príncipe 70Michael Mikulewicz and Karin Helwig6 Three layers of vulnerability in climatic and environmental crises: the roleof cultural caring practices 90Siri Veland, Camilla Risvoll, Stine Bang Svendsen and Elisabeth StubberudPART II KNOWING AND CONTESTING VULNERABILITY7 Decolonising climate change adaptation: insights from Aotearoa NewZealand 120Meg Parsons8 Expanding the definition of ‘vulnerability’ through relational, respectfuland accountable social science research in the context of climate change 149Katy Davis, Melanie Flynn, Anuszka Mosurska, Angus Naylor, IvanVillaverde Canosa and James D. Ford9 Encountering climate vulnerability through narratives and places 169Emily Potter and Donna Houston10 Spatial vulnerability: concept and application for decision-making in thechanging climate 187Garima Jain, Teja Malladi and Joseph Karanja11 Vulnerability of agricultural communities to climate-related disasters inthe coastal Vietnamese Mekong Delta 210Vo Quoc Thanh, Vo Thi Phuong Linh and Nguyen Hieu TrungPART III RESPONDING TO AND RESISTING VULNERABILITY12 In search of justice: Social vulnerability, local disaster capitalism andresponding to climate change 231Krishna K. Shrestha, Jagannath Adhikari, Eileen Baldry, HemantOjha and Anthony Zwi13 The role of Indigenous fishers’ knowledge and collective action in reducingvulnerability to climate change 256Eranga K. Galappaththi14 NGO responses to climate change vulnerability in China 278Fengshi Wu, Ju-Han Zoe Wang and Natalie W.M. Wong15 Replicable and context-specific: how co-production of knowledge canbuild resilience from the bottom-up to face climate change risk 296Roxana Bórquez, Marco Billi, Anahí Urquiza, Catalina Amigo andRodrigo FusterPART IV FUTURES16 From climate vulnerability to climate justice: resisting the inevitability ofloss, insisting on reparative relations 325Fiona Miller17 Voyaging beyond vulnerability: Pacific narratives of climate changemobility 341Christina Newport18 From drought to dzud: nomadic wayfinding in a changing climate 362Navchaa Tugjamba and Greg Walkerden19 Climate change is colonial (mis)management of Country: wildfires andIndigenous cultural burning in Australia 379Lauren Tynan and Jessica Riley

‘The Handbook on Climate Change Vulnerability, Environments and Communities is a timely collection of 18 chapters, many informed by field-based research from around the world, that fosters understanding of vulnerability to support both formal adaptation efforts and everyday decision-making for people impacted by exacerbating climate challenges. This important collection presents new perspectives on vulnerability from various disciplines and theoretical perspectives, emphasizing a critical engagement with both the concept of vulnerability and processes that construct and perpetuate vulnerability. It is a must-read for people prepared to be challenged while moving towards climate-resilient futures.’