Apolonia Diana Sherly da Costa, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Henri-Count Evans, Inga Grinfelde, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra, Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusurić, João Carlos Correia Leitão, Chunlan Li, Newton R. Matandirotya, Bethwel Mutai, Gustavo J. Nagy, Thierry Razanakoto, Jame Schaefer, Goran Trbic, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga, Sane Pashane Zuka, Charles Galdies, Adriana Consorte-McCrea, Francisco Platas, Mittul Vahanvati, Pedi Obani, Safwatun Nida, Lucas Gabriel Zanon, Mayara Régia Sousa de Melo, Renato da Costa dos Santos, Alison Glover, Roman Vakulchuk
Background. Local, national, regional, and international scale adaptation and mitigation are also implemented and empowered in the latest policies of CCA and DRM by the university academics’ initiatives based on a conceptual holistic understanding. Objective (1) To recognize, understand, and trace, the major-minor voices stages in decision-making for initiative steps and planning strategies for practical handling for the university community, implemented by University stakeholders collaboration with research institutes and religious leaders in Timor, Indonesia; (2) to analyze and modify practical handling of risk management through strengthening institutional structural resilience and substantial roles in universities from learning the old management system during natural disasters due to climate change. Methods. Author’s theory of intersection, precision, and transition of major-minor voices from the application of the up-bottom policy’s approach and her own elaborative analyses-based data evidence discussing on civilized, adaptive, and social-relational values are used to understand the relativity of solutions in the framework of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and the follow-up impact analysis in the understanding of the university community’s contribution. Results. The stages of policy in the conceptualist view of seeing the contextualist phenomena of post-disaster problems are moderate-democratic policies in critical analysis of East Indonesia’s risk management of climate change in this twenty-first century era that is slightly different with the West Indonesia’s. Eastern Indonesia is experiencing a recession in its fiscal infrastructure in the face of climate change that has a major impact on all levels of the community, including universities which have shown a major role in the formation of adaptive and mitigative resilience in the present. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Eswatini, Manzini, Kwaluseni Campus, Matsapha, South Africa; Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia; Center for Sustainable Development (Greens), Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul), Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil; School of Urban and Regional Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Kgotso Development Trust, Beitbridge, Zimbabwe; Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Centre, Beitbridge, Zimbabwe; Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay; CERED, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar; Marquette University, Milwaukee, United States; University of Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico; University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Land Economy, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, Blantyre 3, Malawi; Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta; Academy for Sustainable Futures, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Casa de Cultura de la UAEMéx en Tlalpan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico; School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom; Science Education Department of Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia; University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil; State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil; Universidade do Contestado-UNC, Mafra, Brazil; The Open University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway; Institute for Landscape Ecology (ILÖK), Faculty of Geo Science, University of Münster Germany, Münster, Germany; Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change and Resilience, RESUDENVI, Malaka District, Betun, Indonesia; Center for Food Security Studies, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa Univesity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; The Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
