Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2004
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
136 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35644
Legacy PEIN ID:
75647
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Climate change - Oceania
Abstract
Climate change adaptation is vital for Pacific SIDS. Long-term effects, including the increasing frequency and severity of extreme events such as high rainfall, droughts, tropical cyclones, and storm surges are affecting the people in this region. Coupled with non-climate drivers, such as inappropriate land use, 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 and potentially lead to population relocation and therefore social and cultural disruption and disproportion. Failure to reduce vulnerability may result in loss of future risk management opportunities when impacts may be greater and options fewer.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2004
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
136 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35644
Legacy PEIN ID:
75647
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 15-Apr-2009
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022