Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Remote Outer Islands of the Pacific Island Region

Author(s):  
Gillian Cambers ◽  
Pasha Carruthers ◽  
Titilia Rabuatoka ◽  
Sanivalati Tubuna ◽  
Juliana Ungaro
Author(s):  
Peni Hausia Havea

Climate change has affected people's peace in the form of impact on livelihoods, health, and/or well-being. Most of these peace impacts, however, are felt significantly by people who are living in the low-lying communities in the Pacific, who are within and/or close to the Ring of Fire. This chapter is based on a study of peace and climate change adaptation that was conducted in the Pacific island region in 2016. It took place in five communities in Suva, Fiji: Vatuwaqa, Raiwaqa, Raiwai, Samabula, and Toorak. It highlights the impact of climate change on peace, and then it indicated how peace can be promoted in the form of climate change adaptation for these communities. Based on the results of this research, the author recommends that peace should be incorporated into the Pacific islands national adaptation plan.


2022 ◽  
pp. 1476-1503
Author(s):  
Peni Hausia Havea

Climate change has affected people's peace in the form of impact on livelihoods, health, and/or well-being. Most of these peace impacts, however, are felt significantly by people who are living in the low-lying communities in the Pacific, who are within and/or close to the Ring of Fire. This chapter is based on a study of peace and climate change adaptation that was conducted in the Pacific island region in 2016. It took place in five communities in Suva, Fiji: Vatuwaqa, Raiwaqa, Raiwai, Samabula, and Toorak. It highlights the impact of climate change on peace, and then it indicated how peace can be promoted in the form of climate change adaptation for these communities. Based on the results of this research, the author recommends that peace should be incorporated into the Pacific islands national adaptation plan.


2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Munk Klint ◽  
Emma Wong ◽  
Min Jiang ◽  
Terry Delacy ◽  
David Harrison ◽  
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Author(s):  
Johanna E. Johnson ◽  
Johann D. Bell ◽  
Valerie Allain ◽  
Quentin Hanich ◽  
Patrick Lehodey ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Johanna E. Johnson ◽  
Valerie Allain ◽  
Britt Basel ◽  
Johann D. Bell ◽  
Andrew Chin ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-423
Author(s):  
Mollie J. Mahany ◽  
Mark E. Keim

ABSTRACTFew regions of the world are at higher risk for environmental disasters than the Pacific Island countries and territories. During 2004 and 2005, the top public health leadership from 19 of 22 Pacific Island countries and territories convened 2 health summits with the goal of developing the world's first comprehensive regional strategy for sustainable disaster risk management as applied to public health emergencies. These summits followed on the objectives of the 1994 Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and those of the subsequent Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World. The outputs of the 2004 and 2005 Pacific Health Summits for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management provide a detailed description of challenges and accomplishments of the Pacific Island health ministries, establish a Pacific plan of action based upon the principles of disaster risk management, and provide a locally derived, evidence-based approach for many climate change adaptation measures related to extreme weather events in the Pacific region. The declaration and outputs from these summits are offered here as a guide for developmental and humanitarian assistance in the region (and for other small-island developing states) and as a means for reducing the risk of adverse health effects resulting from climate change.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2012;6:415-423)


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Siti Dinda Narisya

This article tends to examine the ways Australia approaching climate change in the region associated with its middle power status. Pacific Islands or Southwest Pacific Region is a regional territory that almost of all its surface covered by water. The region is prominent for having numbers of island countries or island states which are very dependent on natural conditions. They are vulnerable to the change of nature thus it hits their top national security. The issue of climate change in recent years has gotten more serious attention from all over the world and so does the pacific island region with no exception. Australia with its unique feature of being known as a middle power state and as the most secure nation in the region has served a distinctive approach on addressing the issue of climate change. The behavior and identity approach are adequately in line to establish certain strategies associated with middle power status in the role of guiding Australia’s foreign policy.


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