SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
… from artificial or natural surfaces, groundwater, and surface water. Nonconventional resources include seawater or brackish … water importation by barge or submarine pipeline, treated wastewater, and substitution (such as the use of coconuts …
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
… Marine protected areas (MBA) provide place-based management of marine ecosystem through various degrees and types of protective actions. Habitats such as coral reefs … circulation patterns, increasing severity of storms, and changing freshwater influxes. Call Number: [EL] Physical …
International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN)
… declines globally due to anthropogenic threats (Short and Wyllie Echeverria 1996, Duarte 2002, Orth et al. 2006). Runoff of nutrients and sediments that affect water quality is the greatest anthropogenic threat to …
The Federated of Community Development Learning
… on environmental sustainablility (including develoment and agriculture) and economic sustainability. Sustainable communities can focus on sustainable urban infrastructure and/or sustainable municipal infrastructure. Available online …
OECD
… This report presents the integrated case study for Fiji carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a … recent climate trends and climate change scenarios for Fiji are assessed, and key sectoral impacts are identified …
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
… play a crucial role for life on the planet. Healthy seas and the services they provide are key to the future … of mankind. Our seas are highly dynamic, structured and complex systems. The seafloor consists of vast shelves … dwarf similar structures on land. Ocean currents transport water masses many times larger than all rivers on Earth …
World Bank
… of the continuing analysis by the Bank of the economic and related conditions of its developing member countries and of its dialogues with the governments. Some of the … the least possible delay of the use of the governments and the academic, business and financial, and development …
UNEP, CBD
… strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and to integrate, as far as possible and as appropriate, the conservation and sustainable use of …
UNEP/CBD
… The Pacific region has benefited from a number of regional and national programmes to both assess the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and develop programmes to adapt to climate change. Such … found more than a doubling m the number of category 4 and 5 storms in the South-West Pacific from the period …
AIACC
… countries (PICs). The impacts of climate variability and extreme events (cyclones, floods, droughts, sea level rise, and other natural disasters) are rapidly pushing people … to climate extremes (Campbell, 1999: Feresi et al., 2000). and the costs are expected to rise even further with a rise …
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council
… This tight sea-level control of the seaward margin and zones within mangroves has been demonstrated by precise … mangroves are definitive indicators of sea-level position, and pollen distributions record the locations of different … ii, 81 p. ; 29 cm … … Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council … climatic changes … vulnerability … …
UNEP/CBD
… COP-8 (Decision XIII/8 [6]) promoted a series of regional and/or sub-regional workshops on capacity building for … of biodiversity concerns into relevant sectors, obstacles, and ways and means for overcoming these obstacles. It was recommended …
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), Samoa
… published for Samoa … … Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) … Samoa … climate risk … climatic … … rainfall … temperature … drough … winds … Atmosphere and Climate …
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Programme (PACC)
… climate changes, including the increasing frequency and severity of extreme events such as high rainfall, droughts, tropical cyclones, and storm surges are affecting the lives and livelihoods of people in PICs. Coupled with non-climate …
PEW Center on Global Climate Change
… happening, it is caused in large part by human activity, and it will have many serious and potentially damaging effects in the decades ahead. Greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants, and other human activitiesrather than natural variations in …
University of New South Wales, Australian Tsunami Research Centre-Natural Hazards Research Laboratory
… Integrating community based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is identified at the policy and practical level as crucial to aid effectiveness. … through detailed case studies of current projects in Fiji and Samoa which highlight the challenges and best …
Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Programme (PACC), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
… with a goal to contribute to reduced vulnerability and increased adaptive capacity to adverse effects of climate … projects were the low lying atolls of Ontong Java and, in a second phase, Sikaiana. These atolls are extremely isolated and are highly vulnerable in many respects. Climaterelated …
UK Presidency of the EU
… The impacts of climate change on biodiversity and the degree to which autonomous and directed adaptation will lesson these impacts are likely … to act on this information, namely ecosystem managers, resource managers, the public and policy makers climate …
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
… The combined pressures of climate change and development will not only aggravate existing challenges … conservation and development in the Pacific. However, resource management decision-makers often arent able to allocate …
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Project (PIREP)
… less than 10 percent of each PICs commercial energy use and the region is characterized by scattered and fragmented … are based on unreliable and unsubstantiated data on RE resource potentials. The Pacific Islands Renewable Energy … Countries: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, …