Small Island Developing States
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-82776-2 (ISBN)
This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people's long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.
In their introduction, the editors contextualise the book within the current literature. They emphasise the importance of stronger links between climate change science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose communities are often excluded by mainstream research.
This book is timely and appropriate, given the recent commission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a Special Report that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, "especially in islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy development opportunities" following the Paris Agreement. Coupled with this, there is also the need to support the policy community with further scientific evidence on climate change-related issues in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
lt;p> Stefano Moncada is the Director of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta. He is a development economist who lectures and conducts research in the areas of poverty, climate-change, islands and small states studies and impact evaluation. Prior to join academia, Stefano worked as policy analyst, led development and cooperation projects, and acted as a consultant in sustainable development programmes. Stefano's recent research activities include economic and health assessments, in the face of climate change, of communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Stefano is part of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI), of the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC), and acts as expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is active in numerous outreach and knowledge-transfer initiatives, including training courses and consultation sessions for public, private, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
Hilary Bambrick is professor and head of the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. She is an environmental epidemiologist and bioanthropologist who researches the health impacts of global heating, including the development, implementation, and evaluation of adaptation strategies. She has consulted for the World Health Organization and United Nations Development Programme on climate adaptation strategies for health, and she led the health impacts assessment for Australia's only national climate change review (The Garnaut Review, 2008), and serves as an expert reviewer for the IPCC. At sub-national scale, she has worked on community-based adaptation projects in the remote Pacific and in the Ethiopian Rift Valley, and contributed to a number of city and state-based health adaptation strategies in Australia. She is a councillor with Australia's independent Climate Council and contributes regularly to media and public debate.
Lino Briguglio is professor of economics and holds a PhD in economics from the University of Exeter, UK. He has published many studies on small states and is renowned for his pioneering work on economic vulnerability and economic resilience of small states. He acted as lead author for the chapter 'Small Islands' of the IPCC Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports (Working Group II). He was formerly head of the Economics and the Banking and Finance Departments of the University of Malta. He also directed the Islands and Small States Institute at the same university for 30 years, between 1989 and 2019.Introduction: Small Island Developing States: Vulnerability and resilience under climate change.- Part I - Concepts and Dimensions.- States of 'Knowing': Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Risk in SIDS Climate Change Impacts.- Climate and development research in small island developing states: the benefits of a political ecology approach.- Part II - Sectors.- Community participation, situated knowledge and climate change (mal)adaptation in rural island communities: evidence from artificial shoreline-protection structures in Fiji.- Widening the Scope of Disaster Preparedness in Caribbean SIDS: Building Resilience through Improving Climate Information.- Sustainable land use systems in natural resource policies: the role of agroforestry in the Rio conventions for Small Island Developing States.- Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: Insights from the Small Island Economy of Mauritius.- The Early Development of the Small Island Developing States' Climate Governance: A Disproportionate Impact on UN Climate Negotiations.- Social and Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Gender Dimension for Indian Ocean Islands.- Vulnerability of Jamaica's South Coast Fishing Communities to Coastal Erosion and Flooding.- Fisheries sector vulnerabilities to climate change in Small Island Developing States.- Part III - Places.-Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Enhancing Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Spatial Planning Framework.- Human Mobility and Disasters in Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).- Climate change and the case of Grenada's blue growth plan: Using the SDGs to propose a policy planning framework for SIDS's sustainable development.- Identifying climate change vulnerability and adaptation challenges in the Caribbean SIDS - an urban morphological approach.- The Contentious Policies of Place and Space: the Maldives, Overpopulation, and Climate Concerns.- Coral Islands, Climate Change and Distant Destinies? The View from Kiribati.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.10.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The World of Small States |
| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 394 p. 43 illus., 9 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 610 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Schlagworte | climate change science • intergovernmental panel on climate change • IPCC • Natural Recourse Depletion • Paris Agreement |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-82776-3 / 3030827763 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-82776-2 / 9783030827762 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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