Climate Change and Everyday Life in Toineke Village, West Timor: Uncertainties, Knowledge and Adaptation
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Climate Change and Everyday Life in Toineke Village, West Timor: Uncertainties, Knowledge and Adaptation
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina | Scholtes, Fabian
Sociologus, Vol. 61 (2011), Iss. 2 : pp. 151–175
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Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Senior Researcher, Center for Development Research, Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Dr. Fabian Scholtes, KfW Development Bank, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Development Research Division, Palmengartenstr. 5–9, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany.
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Abstract
Klimawandel und die durch ihn verursachten oder verschärften Umweltveränderungen sowie deren sozio-ökonomische Folgen sind mit beachtlichen Risiken verbunden, insbesondere für arme Subsistenzbauern, deren Systeme der Lebenssicherung unmittelbar von ihrer natürlichen Umwelt abhängen. Wir analysieren, wie solche Umweltveränderungen die Menschen im Dorf Toineke in West Timor (Indonesien) betreffen und wie die Menschen die sich ihnen stellenden Risiken bewältigen und sich an sie anpassen.
Dabei beziehen wir uns auf verschiedene Konzepte und Aspekte, die Ulrich Beck in seiner Theorie der Risikogesellschaft formuliert hat. Wir nutzen u. a. seine Unterscheidung von Risiken in Ungewissheiten, den Verlust an Gefahrlosigkeit und Unsicherheiten und diskutieren, welche Rolle Wissen in Verbindung mit anderen Kapitalformen in Toineke im Umgang mit den Folgen von Klimawandel spielt.
Environmental change, in particular as caused or aggravated by climate change, and its socioeconomic consequences inflict considerable risks on people, especially on poor people who depend very directly on their natural environment for their livelihoods. In this paper, we analyse how such changes affect the people of the village of Toineke in West Timor (Indonesia), which risks the changes involve, and how people cope with and adapt to these risks.
In doing so, we refer to concepts and aspects put forward in Ulrich Beck's theory of risk societies, including uncertainty, lack of safety and insecurity as different categories of risk. Based on our analysis, we discuss which role knowledge, in connection with other forms of capital, plays in Toineke in living with and managing the consequences of climatic and environmental change.