@tirivangasi
🌍 Political & Environmental Sociologist | Doctoral Researcher @ Uni. of Jyväskylä| Adjunct Professor @Univen 🌱 Climate Change | Indigenous Knowledge | Governance | Resilience 📝 Published 50+ peer-reviewed articles 🎓 YALI Alumnus |Topic Editor @Frontiers
Happy Tirivangasi shows that adaptation to climate change is a deep social and cultural process shaped by land-based worldviews, spirituality, and collective responsibility. Effective and just climate adaptation must be rooted in Indigenous knowledge. r.jyu.fi/Gyr
🔓 @tirivangasi.bsky.social & Louis Nyahunda @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social identify the determinants of transformative #climatechange #adaptation in rural Zimbabwe:
➡️ Livelihood diversification
➡️ Disaster-resistant infrastructure
➡️ Mental health and psychosocial support
& much more 🇿🇼 ⬇️
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In Somalia, climate change is worsening poverty, hunger and threatening to enflame a decades-long conflict.
However, there is hope through #ClimateAction, as the government and @unep-ccc.bsky.social work on technology-based adaptation measures.
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