出版社：Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island
摘要：Community-based adaptation has gained significant international attention as a way
for communities to respond to the increasing threats and complex pressures posed by climate
change. This bottom-up strategy represents an alternative to the prolonged reliance on, and
widespread ineffectiveness of, mitigation methods to halt climate change, in addition to the
exacerbation of vulnerability resulting from top-down adaptation approaches. Yet despite the
promises of this alternative approach, the efficacy of community-based adaptation remains
unknown. Its potential to reduce vulnerability within communities remains a significant gap
in knowledge, largely due to limited participatory evaluations with those directly affected by
these initiatives, to determine the success and failure of project design, implementation,
outcomes and long-term impact. This paper seeks to close this gap by undertaking an in-depth
evaluation of multiple community-based adaptation projects in Tanna Island, Vanuatu and
exploring community attitudes and behavioural changes. This study found that future
community-based adaptation should integrate contextual specificities and gender equality
frameworks into community-based adaptation design and implementation, as well as recognise
and complement characteristics of local resilience and innovation. In doing this, the critical
importance of looking beyond assumptions of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) as
homogenous, primarily vulnerable to climate change and lacking resilience, was also recognised.
关键词：adaptation; climate change; community-based resilience; Small Island Developing States (SIDS); vulnerability
