The project will investigate place-based expertise through generational climate stories, lived experiences, and other indigenous ways of knowing to uncover traditional foundations of adaptive capacity…

The project will investigate place-based expertise through generational climate stories, lived experiences, and other indigenous ways of knowing to uncover traditional foundations of adaptive capacity in island worlds. By inquiring into dimensions of resilience maintained by and embedded in seafaring systems that supported local communities' past responses to the cascading impacts of diverse environmental disasters (typhoon, tsunami) and impacts (enso, drought, resource collapse), this project seeks to assess the potential for indigenous seafaring knowledge to be effectively employed or RE-activated to inform community-driven climate resilience strategies. The project's objectives are: 1) to identify the current fragility of ancestral seafaring knowledge that the custodians and practitioners face as a result of climate impacts, and to learn about the adaptive capacity of their lived experiences of inter-island interaction and post-disaster exchange; 2) to begin to understand