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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

Slides from the FSM Inform workshop, introducing the Inform project objectives and the software tools being proposed.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

User manuals and quick start guides for using the FSM Inform Environment data portal.

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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This plan highlighted the five key principles for successful adaptation and reduction of present and future coastal hazard risks to Kosrae communities and infrastructure over the next few generations;

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

A report that was prepared for the FSM National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan project

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This report reviews environmental law in the Federated States of Micronesia, including recommendations for changes to aspects of the law. The focus of this review is upon environmental law at the national level in FSM, although section 5 includes information on Pohnpei State environmental law.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

A project technical report of the International Water project - the objectives are to prepare and conduct an ecological baseline survey of the nearshore reef fisheries at proposed MPA sites in each of four IWP communities in Yap and prepare a monitoring plan and support the involvement of the community in baseline assessment and monitoring work.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This dataset holds the following reports for the FSM Climate Change and Disaster Risk Finance Assessment:
1. FSM Climate Change and Disaster Risk Finance Assessment – Executive Summary – February 2019
2. FSM Climate Change and Disaster Risk Finance Assessment – Final Report – February 2019

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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This dataset contains the FSM ‘Nationwide Climate Change Policy 2009’, which was endorsed on December 1st, 2009, and the FSM ‘Nation Wide Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Policy 2013’, which was endorsed on June 2013. The Integrated 2013 Policy supersedes the 2009 Climate Change Policy.

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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This report presents the findings following research and a three-week field assessment (April 2009) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in response to nation-wide marine inundation by extreme tides (December 2007, September 2008, and December 2008). This study was conducted at the request of the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the state and federal government of FSM, and was compiled and published in 2010, by Charles H. Fletcher and Bruce M. Richmond.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This dataset provides the timeline of major natural disasters that have affected islands in the FSM, compiled by Whitney Hoot and Danko Taborosi of Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi), from the year 1775 to 2012.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This plan provides for the establishment of national arrangements for the FSM government for responding to emergency and disaster events within the country, published in 2017.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This dataset contains the Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change for all 4 States of the FSM:
• Yap Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change – 2015
• Kosrae Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change – 2015
• Pohnpei Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change – 2016
• Chuuk Joint State Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change - 2017

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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

Food security is at the core of sustainable development in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

This document is intended for decision-makers across the Pacific with an interest in community-based resource
management and securing food resources against the impacts of climate change.

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC implemented the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the Australian Government’s International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative (ICCAI).

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This study under the International Waters Project (2004) is aimed at determining both the social and economic context of resource depletion in Yap State, as well as the socioeconomic impact of the implementation of MPAs. The project is focused on four clusters of villages on the main island group, in the districts of Rumung, Maap, Gagil and Gilman

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

This thesis used a combination of sediment, coral, fish, climatic, and oceanographic data, and focused on the Pohnpei Lagoon, examining a range of natural and human issues in the marine environment both at the local level (focusing on that within the Pohnpei Lagoon) and regional level (focusing on the western Pacific region).

 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the reliability of water supplies for four atoll islands in Yap, Micronesia and examine how the reliability changes during drought and future precipitation patterns. The islands studied for this thesis include Eauripik (Eauripik Atoll), Falalop (Ulithi Atoll), Ifalik (Ifalik Atoll), and Satawal (a reef island). This study also aims to give water resource managers information and comprehensive tools to improve management of rainwater and groundwater resources.

 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Yap State,  FSM

Amended Yap State EPA Regulations

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