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CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 313-324Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2016.1145100
Keywords
adaptive capacity; community development; fisheries development; environmental issues; rural development
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- Universiti Putra Malaysia [06-02-12-2232RU]
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The present study attempts to identify the individual adaptive capacity of small-scale fishermen living in coastal areas that are vulnerable to the climate change in Malaysia. This study is quantitative in nature and involves a total of 240 respondents from four areas in Malaysia. It can be concluded that small-scale fishermen in Malaysia have adaptive strength in two aspects: namely formal and informal networks; and environmental awareness, values and attitudes. Although the fishermen were found to record a high mean score for three other adaptive aspects - local environmental knowledge; attachment to job; and attachment to place - this actually demonstrates their adaptive weaknesses. Employability is another area of concern, as it emerged as the fishermen's weakest adaptive aspect. This study demonstrates the potential of alternative skills, managed retreat, accommodation and protection, information management, periodical assessment and access to credit to produce progressive adaptive capacity of small-scale fishermen in Malaysia.
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