The Localization of Actions for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Post-Morakot Reconstruction in Coastal Taiwan

Abstract

This study examined the post-disaster adaptation since 2009 of a fishing harbor Linbian in southern Taiwan. This study found that locals have developed adaptation plans different from the expert planning after participating in the call for adaptation action plans, technology actant inventions, and decision-making with locally inherited wisdom to re-define action plans for climate change adaptation. Local adaptation actions responding to climate change not only require the involvement of local knowledge covering history, culture, and the environment, but also needs modern knowledge capital similar to community building and public affair participation experiences to stimulate each other, accomplish one another’s goals, and empower mobilization, thus bringing locale-specific characteristics, and creating value for local actions.