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Apocalypse now (and avoid the rush): human dimensions of climate change in the Indo‐Pacific
Author(s) -
LILLEY IAN
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2008.tb00028.x
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , climate change , politics , environmental change , cultural ecology , political ecology , psychological resilience , environmental ethics , natural (archaeology) , ecology , sociology , history , geography , environmental resource management , anthropology , archaeology , political science , law , biology , environmental science , philosophy , psychology , computer security , computer science , psychotherapist
This essay draws attention to a set of related alternatives to conventional archaeological approaches to climate change and cultural transformation. It canvasses concepts drawn from the ‘new ecology’, the study of societal vulnerability and from ‘political ecology’. The suggestion is that archaeologists focus on• change as a continuous variable • vulnerability to change as a ‘socio‐natural’ phenomenon resting on the robustness and resilience of relations between culture and nature, and • the effects on vulnerability of sociopolitical manipulation of access to natural resources.