Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
UNKNOWN
Physical Description:
130p.
Call Number
EL
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
38525
Legacy PEIN ID:
78542
General Notes
Available Online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
PACC Project Design
Abstract
For Pacific SIDS, the need for adaptation to climate change has become increasingly urgent. Long-term climate change, including the increasing frequency and severity of extreme events such as high rainfall, droughts, tropical cyclones, and storm surges are affecting the lives and livelihoods of people in PICs. Coupled with non-climate drivers, such as overexploitation of resources, increasing urbanization and population increase, development in the region is increasingly undermined. For the low lying atolls, the likely economic disruption from climate change pressures could be catastrophic, even to the extent of requiring population relocation to other islands or adding numbers to the Pacific diaspora, with the subsequent social and cultural disruption having unknown proportions. Failure to reduce vulnerability could also result in loss of opportunities to manage risks in the future when the impacts may be greater and time to consider options limited.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
UNKNOWN
Physical Description:
130p.
Call Number
EL
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
38525
Legacy PEIN ID:
78542
General Notes
Available Online
Record Created: 03-Sep-2012
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022