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- Summary:
- This publication assesses how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) are being integrated by development agencies in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) as a way to build community resilience to disaster. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of participatory DRR and CCA approaches at the community level. The Pacific Island Countries are exposed to a number of natural hazards, from hurricanes and storms, to earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Along with exposure to many hazards, the relatively small size of PICs, their isolation from much of the world, their weak economies, the low-lying nature of these islands, the concentration of their populations close to the ocean, and their lack of capacity for disaster mitigation, make them particularly vulnerable to climate change and disaster. This vulnerability has been born out in reality, with disaster losses often exceeding the GDP of these impacted countries. As a result of this growing threat to the PICs, the publication calls for solutions that integrate DRR and CCA. While DRR and CCA are distinct policy arenas, it is increasingly understood within the international community that they often overlap, particularly in PICs. Thus policies such as “replanting mangroves, coral gardening, reinforcing sea walls, ceasing upstream logging, rebuilding or maintaining healthy ecosystems, as well as climate change education and awareness raising,” can be classified as both CCA and DRR (p. 4). What is critical to ensuring that these policies are efficiently and effectively implemented is the development of structures through which DRR and CCA stakeholders at all levels, from the transnational to the local, are able to communicate and coordinate with one another in order to share information and establish clearly defined roles and responsibilities. The rest of the document presents different governance structures established at the local level for the formation and implementation of DRR and CCA policies in Fiji and Somoa. ( English )
- Subject:
- Vulnerability and Climate Change ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Gero, A., Meheux, K., Dominey-Howes, D. (2009?). How local communities and global development agencies reduce vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change: examples from the Pacific. Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042541
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