Islands and islanders are often misrepresented in the climate change discourse, oversimplifying their experiences and interactions with climate change. In reality, islands and islanders have far more complex relationships with climate change. This special thematic section presents eight papers that highlight local responses and localized impacts of climate change on islands, reiterating the importance of considering local community perspectives in small island contexts to overcome simplistic viewpoints. Such perceptions and perspectives are increasingly being recognized as offering a valuable contribution to climate change adaptation, particularly to counter the misrepresentation of small islands as vulnerable or passive, and the disregard for the fact that climate change is a global, as well as continual process. This special thematic section further demonstrates that island research is well placed to address the disproportionate concentration of perspectives and opinions of climate change from the Global North and adds to the calls for increased efforts to give a voice to island communities of all kinds.

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小岛对气候变化的看法

岛屿和岛民在气候变化话语中常常被歪曲，从而过度简化了他们的经历以及与气候变化的互动。实际上，岛屿和岛民与气候变化的关系要复杂得多。本专题专题介绍了八篇论文，重点介绍了气候变化对岛屿的当地反应和局部影响，重申了在小岛屿环境中考虑当地社区观点以克服简单观点的重要性。人们日益认识到，这种看法和观点为适应气候变化提供了宝贵的贡献，特别是为了防止小岛屿被误认为是脆弱的或被动的，以及无视气候变化是全球性的和持续的过程。