Voices of hard-to-reach island communities provide inclusive and culturally appropriate climate change responses: A case study from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Mosby, V; Moggridge, BJ; Creamer, S; Evans, G; Ireland, L; Pecl, G; Lansbury, N

Voices of hard-to-reach island communities provide inclusive and culturally appropriate climate change responses: A case study from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Mosby, V Moggridge, BJ Creamer, S Evans, G Ireland, L Pecl, G Lansbury, N

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Citation:: Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, 23, pp. 100450
Issue Date:: 2025-05-01

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dc.contributor.author	Mosby, V
dc.contributor.author	Moggridge, BJ
dc.contributor.author	Creamer, S
dc.contributor.author	Evans, G
dc.contributor.author	Ireland, L
dc.contributor.author	Pecl, G
dc.contributor.author	Lansbury, N
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-18T22:07:48Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-18T22:07:48Z
dc.date.issued	2025-05-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, 23, pp. 100450
dc.identifier.issn	2667-2782
dc.identifier.issn	2667-2782
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/189442
dc.description.abstract	Introduction: Many island-based Indigenous communities continue to occupy, manage and live off and from their ancestral lands. For some Indigenous Islander communities, climate change is already causing destruction to fragile ecosystems, affecting traditional food supply, and impacting on the health and livelihoods of communities. Materials and methods: The voices gathered through extended yarns of Torres Strait Islander Peoples was featured as a case study to describe the range of physical and psycho-social impacts from climatic changes to their Country, as well as their priority climate responses. Results & discussion: In describing climate change impacts and priority responses, Torres Strait Islander community members detailed five aspects of concern to them. These were to adequately monitor climatic changes and respond appropriately by drawing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges, to consider the human rights inherent in being protected from climate change, and to develop locally led solutions that are implemented soon. Conclusion: The impacts of climate change that are being seen and felt in Australia's Torres Strait Islands hold many similarities with small island nations in the Pacific whose islands are remote, climate-exposed, and their voices unheard on the political stage despite experiencing irreversible damage and gradual disappearance of their ancestral lands.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Climate Change and Health
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.joclim.2025.100450
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dc.title	Voices of hard-to-reach island communities provide inclusive and culturally appropriate climate change responses: A case study from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	23
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
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Abstract:

Introduction: Many island-based Indigenous communities continue to occupy, manage and live off and from their ancestral lands. For some Indigenous Islander communities, climate change is already causing destruction to fragile ecosystems, affecting traditional food supply, and impacting on the health and livelihoods of communities. Materials and methods: The voices gathered through extended yarns of Torres Strait Islander Peoples was featured as a case study to describe the range of physical and psycho-social impacts from climatic changes to their Country, as well as their priority climate responses. Results & discussion: In describing climate change impacts and priority responses, Torres Strait Islander community members detailed five aspects of concern to them. These were to adequately monitor climatic changes and respond appropriately by drawing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges, to consider the human rights inherent in being protected from climate change, and to develop locally led solutions that are implemented soon. Conclusion: The impacts of climate change that are being seen and felt in Australia's Torres Strait Islands hold many similarities with small island nations in the Pacific whose islands are remote, climate-exposed, and their voices unheard on the political stage despite experiencing irreversible damage and gradual disappearance of their ancestral lands.

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