Analysing Climate Change Through a Human Security Lens - a Case Study of Fishermen in Crisis from Peninsular Malaysia

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ID3948771
AutoresSerina Rahman (0000-0002-7707-7802, National University of Singapore, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Páginas1-36
Data de publicação2024-06-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2024.2367627
OpenAlexW4399946477
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas31

Southeast Asia’s coastal communities are the frontliners of climate change impacts. Traditional livelihoods and fish landings are already declining due to changes in sea temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme weather. A human security lens should be used to examine the consequences of climate change impacts on the marginalised communities that suffer directly from it. This study adapts a 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change vulnerability assessment for human and food security and assessment of potential conflicts, merging it with a tool to assess community resilience and adaptability to threats, as a framework to analyse the predicament of Malaysia’s artisanal fishermen. A case study based on 16 years of ethnographic and participant observation in a fishing community that depends on the maritime boundary between Malaysia and Singapore is used to illustrate the above. This paper demonstrates how local knowledge and experience in overcoming change should be used for better climate change adaptation policies and implementation

Business · Climate change · Geography · Human security · Political science · Through-the-lens metering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Geology