ABSTRACT Most research on climate change in South Pacific island communities has privileged people’s observations of physical environmental change with less attention paid to how people interpret the causes of these changes. Increasingly, more studies are focusing on how communities are receiving messages about environmental degradation, and from whom they are receiving them. This case study draws upon ethnographic research conducted in November 2015 in Narikoso on Ono Island in Fiji’s Kadavu Group. This village was in the process of relocating inland as a response to shoreline erosion and severe coastal flooding. By employing data drawn from interviews with government actors, religious leaders, and residents of Narikoso village along with fieldnotes from participant observation, this paper examines how village residents interpreted coastal flooding and shoreline erosion according to the biblical story of Noah’s Ark alongside a secular narrative of climate change. I conclude by showing the unique challenges these worldviews had on the community’s decision to relocate.

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基于信仰的叙事对斐济纳里科索气候变化适应的影响

摘要 大多数关于南太平洋岛屿社区气候变化的研究都优先考虑人们对物理环境变化的观察，而较少关注人们如何解释这些变化的原因。越来越多的研究关注社区如何接收有关环境退化的信息，以及他们从谁那里接收信息。本案例研究借鉴了 2015 年 11 月在斐济卡达武集团小野岛 Narikoso 进行的民族志研究。这个村庄正在搬迁内陆，以应对海岸线侵蚀和严重的沿海洪水。通过使用对政府行为者、宗教领袖和 Narikoso 村居民的采访以及参与者观察的实地记录所获得的数据，本文研究了村民如何根据诺亚方舟的圣经故事以及气候变化的世俗叙述来解释沿海洪水和海岸线侵蚀。最后，我展示了这些世界观对社区搬迁决定的独特挑战。