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Climate change, power, and vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Highlands
Regional Environmental Change ( IF 4.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 , DOI: 10.1007/s10113-021-01825-8
Anna Marjaana Heikkinen 1
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The intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious global threat, particularly for rural populations whose livelihoods are closely tied to natural resources. Yet there is a lack of critical understanding of how asymmetric power dynamics shape the vulnerabilities of such populations under climate change. This article examines the interrelations between smallholders’ climate-related vulnerability experiences and power relations across multiple scales of climate adaptation in the Peruvian Andes, a region susceptible to increasing climatic threats. The analysis draws on a case study conducted in the Mantaro River Valley in Central Peru using qualitative methods: open-ended interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. Findings of the study show that in the context of climate change, the production of vulnerabilities has much to do with larger socio-political structures in which protection of the highland farmers is not prioritized. The impact of the uneven scalar power dynamics in climate adaptation and other overlapping fields of policy have created uneven terms of adaptation among smallholders. This has created marginalization, conflicts, and deepened smallholders’ vulnerabilities under climate change. I argue that to reach a better understanding of the multidimensionality of vulnerabilities, more detailed attention must be paid to place-based climate experiences within context-specific, socio-political processes, and to the ways these are shaped by unequal power relations across multiple scales.



中文翻译:

秘鲁高地的气候变化、电力和脆弱性

气候变化的日益加剧的影响构成了严重的全球威胁,特别是对于生计与自然资源密切相关的农村人口而言。然而,对于不对称的权力动态如何影响气候变化下这些人口的脆弱性,缺乏批判性的理解。本文研究了秘鲁安第斯山脉地区小农与气候相关的脆弱性经历与多个气候适应尺度上的权力关系之间的相互关系,该地区易受日益增加的气候威胁。该分析借鉴了在秘鲁中部曼塔罗河谷进行的案例研究,使用定性方法:开放式访谈、参与式观察和文件分析。研究结果表明,在气候变化的背景下,脆弱性的产生与更大的社会政治结构有很大关系,在这些结构中,没有优先保护高地农民。气候适应和其他重叠政策领域不均衡的标量权力动态的影响在小农之间造成了不均衡的适应条件。这造成了边缘化、冲突,并加深了小农在气候变化下的脆弱性。我认为,为了更好地理解脆弱性的多维性,必须更详细地关注特定背景、社会政治过程中基于地点的气候体验,以及跨多个尺度的不平等权力关系塑造这些体验的方式. 气候适应和其他重叠政策领域不均衡的标量权力动态的影响在小农之间造成了不均衡的适应条件。这造成了边缘化、冲突,并加深了小农在气候变化下的脆弱性。我认为,为了更好地理解脆弱性的多维性,必须更详细地关注特定情境、社会政治过程中基于地点的气候体验,以及跨多个尺度的不平等权力关系塑造这些体验的方式. 气候适应和其他重叠政策领域不均衡的标量权力动态的影响在小农之间造成了不均衡的适应条件。这造成了边缘化、冲突,并加深了小农在气候变化下的脆弱性。我认为,为了更好地理解脆弱性的多维性,必须更详细地关注特定情境、社会政治过程中基于地点的气候体验,以及跨多个尺度的不平等权力关系塑造这些体验的方式.

更新日期:2021-08-23
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