Fache Elodie auteur aut IRD Dumas Pascal auteur aut IRD Ramon N'Yeurt A. de auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access This overview challenges the commonly accepted notion that Pacific societies are all doomed to an uncertain near and distant future despite their inherently different exposures to, experiences of, and attitudes to climate change. It also recognizes that the scientific narrative of climate change acts as a catalyst for new regional alliances and movements aiming to take proactive climate action, from the global to the local levels. We therefore advocate for nuanced views of the climate-related changes that are occurring in the Pacific region, based on a multi-scalar approach that integrates the ecological, sociocultural, economic and political dimensions of these changes. This would require the building of bridges, still too few and fragile, between the environmental and social science approaches. We intend to contribute to these efforts by connecting some of the most recent scientific research and projections concerning global climate change and its effects in the Pacific region, alongside the diversity of local perceptions, narratives and adaptation pathways. specialized CLIMAT ADAPTATION CHANGEMENT SOCIAL SYNTHESE ANALYSE SYSTEMIQUE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE RECHERCHE PLURIDISCIPLINAIRE BIODIVERSITE ANALYSE MULTI ECHELLES 021CLIMAT01 116RESCI Fache Elodie ed. edt IRD Dumas Pascal ed. edt IRD Ramon N'Yeurt A. de ed. edt IRD 149 199-210 2019 0300-953X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010091590 10.4000/jso.11042 0300-953X [F A010077621] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010091590 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2024-08/010091590.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2024-08-05 2025-02-24 fdi:010091590 fre