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Adapting towards climate change impacts: strategies for small scale fishermen in Malaysia


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Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence (2017) Adapting towards climate change impacts: strategies for small scale fishermen in Malaysia. Marine Policy, 81. 193 - 201. ISSN 0308-597X; ESSN: 1872-9460

Abstract

As with the global scenario, a number of climate change ‘symptoms’ are being detected in Malaysia. Local scholars have looked into the problems of rising temperature, rising sea level, extreme rainfall and extreme winds, which are causing coastal and mangrove erosion and degradation of marine resources. In turn, these issues are affecting the small-scale fishermen who rely heavily on weather stability to conduct their social and economic routines. This paper analyses six adaptation strategies, namely, reducing the risks associated with fishing routines, strengthening social relationships, managing fishermen's climate change knowledge, facilitating the community's learning of alternative skills, involving fishermen in climate change adaptation planning, and enhancing fishermen's access to credit. These suggestions are hoped to provide basis for concerned parties to develop adaptation strategies that are in line with small-scale fishermen's needs, abilities and interests.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
Institute for Social Science Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.032
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: Fishermen; Social adaptation; Climate change; Adaptive capacity; Vulnerability to climate change
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2019 03:16
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2019 03:16
Altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.032
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60770
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