Living on the margin: Ethnoecological insights from Marshall Islanders at Rongelap atoll |
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Authors: | K.W. Bridges Will C. McClatchey |
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Affiliation: | Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 3190 Maile Way 101, Honolulu, HI 96822-2279, USA;Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St Louis, Missouri 63166-0299;Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St Louis, Missouri 63166-0299 |
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Abstract: | Pacific Islanders who live on atolls are among the first people who have begun to be seriously impacted by the effects of global climate change. These are the people whose entire landscape is typically no higher than one meter above sea level. Extreme environmental changes are nothing new to these communities. Over many generations these atoll cultures have survived major, unpredictable and locally devastating changes that are of the same magnitude as those expected from climate changes. An examination of traditional ecological knowledge of Marshall Islanders at Rongelap atoll serves to illustrate some of the coping strategies that have enabled these people to be resilient in the past and in the current environmental crisis. Interviews revealed that these atoll dwellers actively manage the resources that are most likely to be impacted by climate change. |
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