As climate change, induced by the global north and the developed world continues to increase in intensity, nations such as Fiji are having to find new ways of coping with the frequent flooding, typhoons, salinization, and erosion which are becoming a part of everyday life. Such disasters and...
climate changefloodingPacific Islandseconomic impactsThis paper quantifies the economic impacts of flooP. BrownA. DaigneaultD. GawithClimate and DevelopmentBROWN, P., DAIGNEAULT, A. & GAWITH, D. 2017. Climate change and the economic impacts of flooding on Fiji. Climate and Development, 9, 493-...
Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Tuna Fisheries in Fiji Islands and Kiribati This paper discusses the possible economic consequences of a change in the tuna fisheriesin the Pacific Ocean resulting from climate change. On the backgro... A Aaheim,L Sygna - 《Cicero Report》 被引量: 34发表...
This chapter discusses the potential impacts of climate change on coastal infrastructure in the Pacific. It also analyses the location of built infrastructure in 12 Pacific island countries with a view to determining the percentages in close proximity to
Home to 100,000 people,Kiribati's 33 coral atolls lie just 1.8m above current sea levels,putting the country on course to become the first nation state lost to climate change.Five years ago,former president Anote Tong launched o programme to buy lund in Fiji to form o refuge for the peo...
Implications of the results for adaptation research are also discussed. Introduction There can be few locations in the world that are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than the low-lying atoll island nations of the Pacific (Fig. 1). Even at current mean sea levels, vulnerability...
The aim of this study was to undertake a broad-scale understanding of the distribution of vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered terrestrial vertebrate species in the Pacific and the assessment of impacts of climate change and sea level rise. 1
Conclusions The perspectives of medical students in this study indicate that climate change may not have a direct and immediate impact on the health of individuals and communities. However, it can significantly influence their health and socio-economic well-being by ...
Society's response to climate change is inevitably mediated by culture. In a Review Article that analyses important new research from across the social sciences, climate change is shown to threaten important cultural dimensions of people's lives and live
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is urbanising rapidly. One of the most visible outcomes of this urbanisation process is the change in the diets of urban residents