Community Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assessment report, Lano and Saoluafata in Samoa

Abstract

The vulnerability of the people of Saoluafata and Lano are a cumulative impact of exposure,to climate related risks reflecting both climatic conditions and location of human settlement,assets and infrastructure and the capacity of the people to cope with the climate related risks. Communities have been adapting in the past and still are adapting today, however,extreme climate related extreme events are increasing which have greatly impacted on the livelihoods of the people and their socioeconomic and physical environment.