Authors
Michael Davis, Elise Huffer, Louise Mataia Milo, Nanise Young Okotai and Kabini Sanga
Abstract
There is a complex inter-connectedness between cultural heritage and climate change. In another sense, Pacific peoples’ cultural heritage is vulnerable to, and threatened by, the rapidly increasing impacts of human-induced climate change. Importantly too, this cultural heritage forms a strong foundation from which Pacific Island peoples develop resilience and adaptation mechanisms to the climate crisis. In this chapter we adopt a tok stori approach, as a series of ‘conversations’ between different ‘voices’, or narratives. The people-centred, storied narrative, which is at the heart of the chapter, is in conversation with an ‘institutional’ narrative of law, policy, and administration. Engaging this ‘conversational’ approach, our chapter describes, through case studies and other material, the intersections between cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledges, and the climate crisis, and from this, proposes some recommendations for law and policy.
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