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Reducing the risk of disasters and climate variability in the Pacific islands: Republic of the Marshall islands country assessment
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SOPAC/GFDRR/WB

The World Bank policy note “Not If, But When” shows the Pacific island countries to be among the world’s most vulnerable to natural disasters. Since 1950, natural disasters have directly affected more than 3.4 million people and led to more than 1,700 reported deaths in the region (excluding Papua New Guinea). In the 1990s alone, reported natural disasters cost the Pacific islands region US$2.8 billion (in real 2004 value). The traditional approach of “wait and mitigate” is a far worse strategy than proactively managing risks.
Reducing the risk of disaster and climate variability in the Pacific islands: Papua New Guinea country assessment
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SOPAC/GFDRR/WB

The World Bank policy note “Not If, But When” shows the Pacific island countries to be among the world’s most vulnerable to natural disasters. Since 1950, natural disasters have directly affected more than 3.4 million people and led to more than 1,700 reported deaths in the region. In the 1990s alone, reported natural disasters cost the Pacific islands region US$2.8 billion (in real 2004 value). The traditional approach of “wait and mitigate” is a far worse strategy than proactively managing risks.
Reducing the risk of disasters and climate variability in the Pacific Islands : Solomon islands country assessment
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SOPAC/GFDRR/WB

The World Bank policy note “Not If, But When” shows the Pacific island countries to be among the world’s most vulnerable to natural disasters. Since 1950, natural disasters have directly affected more than 3.4 million people and led to more than 1,700 reported deaths in the region (excluding Papua New Guinea). In the 1990s alone, reported natural disasters cost the Pacific Islands Region US$2.8 billion (in real 2004 value). The traditional approach of “wait and mitigate” is a far worse strategy than proactively managing risks
Reducing the risk of disasters and climate variability in the Pacific islands : Republic of Vanuatu country assessment
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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SOPAC/GFDRR/WB

The impact of natural disasters and their potential to increase as a result of climate change have received greater attention in recent years. With an onset of strategies, action plans and frameworks have been put in place internationally. At a regional level, the strategies address this growing concern about the risks of disasters and the uncertain hazards from climate change.
Sandwatch: revised and expanded edition : adapting to climate change and educating for sustainable development
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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Cambers, Gillian

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Diamond, Paul

2010
Sandwatch provides a framework for children, youth and adults, with the help of teachers and local communities, to work together to critically evaluate the problems and conflicts facing their beach environments, and to develop sustainable approaches to address these issues. It also helps beaches become more resilient to climate change. The preliminary chapters of this publication focus on how to get started with Sandwatch activities and examine ways to address climate change impacts. The principle aim of this publication is to document the Sandwatch methodology: monitoring, analysing, sharing and taking action. An activities-orientated approach is used to provide step-by-step instructions to cover monitoring methods and data analysis, including observation and recording, erosion and accretion, beach composition, human activities, beach debris, water quality, waves, longshore currents, plants and animals. The activities are related to (a) sustainable development issues, including: beach ownership, mining beaches for construction material, conflict resolution between different beach users, pollution, conservation of endangered species, and (b) climate change adaptation issues: sea level rise, rising temperatures, ocean acidification and increased extreme events. Ways to share findings and create a Sandwatch network are detailed including methods such as the use of local media, websites, social networking and video production. Finally, ways are discussed to design, plan and implement a Sandwatch project to fulfill one or all of the following criteria: (a) addressing a particular beach-related issue, (b) enhancing the beach, and (c) promoting climate change adaptation.
The impact of Hurricane Frances (2004) on the invasive Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia L.) on San Salvador Island, the Bahamas
BRB
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Gamble, Douglas W.

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Rodgers, John C.

2008
On September 2, 2004 Hurricane Frances (Category 3) passed directly over San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. This event offered the opportunity to gather baseline data regarding the impact of hurricanes on populations of the invasive Australian pine (Casuarina equisettifolia L.) in the Bahamas. Results of vegetation surveys within both forest stands and beach environments suggest that the overall impact of this hurricane was minimal. Less than 13% of forest individuals and 17% of beach individuals surveyed were damaged, and the majority of damage was restricted to just one location for both the forest and beach study sites. The most common damage type within the forest sites was “snapped” trees (8%) and this primarily occurred within trees ranging in size from 7–12 cm in diameter. Browning of the entire foliage was the most common damage type within the beach sites (9.3%) but this damage type only occurred within tree sizes less than or equal to 90 cm in height. Thus it appears that Hurricane Frances had a negligible effect on Australian pine populations as a whole on San Salvador Island and that this disturbance event will probably not limit future population expansion. It is suggested that more powerful or more frequent hurricanes would be needed to significantly affect Australian pine populations on San Salvador Island. Similar patterns in damage should be expected with comparable hurricane events on other islands in the Bahamas and for other tropical beaches in which this species has invaded.
Threatened island nations : legal implications of rising seas and changing climate
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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Gregory E. Wannier

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Michael B. Gerrard

2015
Threatened island nations : legal implications of rising seas and changing climate
Second meeting of the regional expert group on food security and climate change Vava'u, Tonga, 27-28 July 2009 : report
Climate Change Resilience
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FAO

2009
COP 15: the climate game and the worlds poor
Climate Change Resilience
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IIED/DAVP

Responding to the challenges of climate change in the Pacific Islands: management and technological imperatives
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
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Nunn, Patrick D.

2009
The Pacific Islands are unique among the Earth’s inhabited environments. They are located in the world’s largest ocean, they are collectively large enough to have their own identity—environmental, cultural, and political—and yet small enough that they are often viewed as an unremarkable adjunct to most of the rest of the world’s landmasses in global issues of climate change

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