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Cooper, Jago 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2396-4414
(2012)
Building resilience in island communities:A paleotempestological perspective.
Geophysical Monograph Series, 198.
pp. 43-49.
Abstract
A review of past hurricane activity over the past 8000 years in the Caribbean has been correlated with a comparative study of changing settlement locations, food procurement strategies, and household architecture traditions over time. The framework for human decision making is evaluated, and the multitemporal and multispatial complexity of social change is put into a regional context. This study highlights the conceptual friction between linking thresholds in climate change, tipping points of sudden environmental change, and divergent pathways through societal progression. The relative resilience of different community lifeways is assessed in light of known climatic and environmental hazards in the region, and key lessons about threat and mitigation are learned that have important implications for modern-day communities living in the Caribbean.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | geophysics,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908 |
| Faculty \ School: | University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2022 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 10:51 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86918 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2012GM001212 |
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