El Niño

An Adaptive Response to Build Social and Ecological Resilience

Bibliographic Data

ID7744353
AuthorsPeter B Urich (University of Waikato – International Global Change Institute, PB 3105, Hamilton, 3105, New Zealand), Peter Urich (University of Waikato, corresponding author), Liza Quirog (44 Visarra St., Tagbilaran City, 6300, Bohol, Philippines), William G Granert (Soil and Water Conservation Foundation, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines)
Year2009
Volume19
Issue6
Pages766-776
Publication date2009-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614520903026991
OpenAlexW1972510221
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited5

Experience from adaptive and community-based resource management suggests that building resilience into both human and ecological systems is an effective way to cope with environmental change. El Niño phenomena are increasingly signalled in advance of their onset. We argue that it is beneficial to heed warnings of potential harm and to intervene in society to foster adaptations that might avert extreme negative ecological and social impacts which can trigger socio-political stress and widespread human suffering. The El Niño of 2004 in the island province of Bohol in the Philippines is used as an example of a successful intervention

Adaptive capacity · Biology · Climate change · Development economics · Ecological resilience · Ecological systems theory · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Harm · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology

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