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Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries

Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Covers climate issues in the Pacific region
  • Congregates inputs from academics and practitioners
  • Integrates policy-making, examples from projects and good practice
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas and Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Remote Outer Islands of the Pacific Island Region

      • Gillian Cambers, Pasha Carruthers, Titilia Rabuatoka, Sanivalati Tubuna, Juliana Ungaro
      Pages 3-18

    3. Customary Land and Climate Change Induced Relocation—A Case Study of Vunidogoloa Village, Vanua Levu, Fiji

      • Dhrishna Charan, Manpreet Kaur, Priyatma Singh
      Pages 19-33

    4. Climate Change and Migration in the Maldives: Some Lessons for Policy Makers

      • Johannes Luetz
      Pages 35-69

  3. Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: The Mental Health Impact

      • David N. Sattler
      Pages 73-85

    3. Preparing for Better Livelihoods, Health and Well-Being—A Key to Climate Change Adaptation

      • Peni Hausia Havea, Sarah L. Hemstock, Helene Jacot Des Combes
      Pages 87-99

    4. Climate-Friendly Adaptation Strategies for the Displaced Atoll Population in Yap

      • Murukesan V. Krishnapillai
      Pages 101-117

    5. Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Vanuatu: The Art and Practice of Building Resilience to Hazards

      • Astrid Vachette
      Pages 119-136

    6. Response of Marginopora vertebralis (Foraminifera) from Laucala Bay, Fiji, to Changing Ocean pH

      • Roselyn Naidu, Pamela Hallock, Jonathan Erez, Matakite Maata
      Pages 137-150

    7. The Role and Capacity of Government in a Climate Crisis: Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

      • Johanna Nalau, J. Handmer, Malcolm Dalesa
      Pages 151-161

    8. Response and Adaptation to Climate Change in the South China Sea and Coral Sea

      • Rongshuo Cai, Haixia Guo, Di Fu, Xiuhua Yan, Hongjian Tan
      Pages 163-176

    9. Drought Modelling Based on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network Algorithms: A Case Study in Queensland, Australia

      • Kavina Dayal, Ravinesh Deo, Armando A. Apan
      Pages 177-198

    10. Adapting Climate Change Projections to Pacific Maritime Supply Chains

      • Jack Dyer
      Pages 199-223

    11. Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience Through Gender Equality

      • Cecilia Aipira, Allanah Kidd, Kate Morioka
      Pages 225-239

    12. Urban Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters: Emerging Lessons from Resilience Policy and Practice in Coastal Tourism Cities

      • Elnaz Torabi, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Michael Howes
      Pages 241-254

    13. Coastal Erosion Monitoring on Ouvea Island (New Caledonia): Involving the Local Community in Climate Change Adaptation

      • M. Le Duff, P. Dumas, O. Cohen, M. Allenbach
      Pages 255-268

  4. Information, Communication, Education and Training on Climate Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
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    2. Towards a Mega-Pacific Islands Education Curriculum for Climate Adaptation Blending Traditional Knowledge in Modern Curriculum

      • Mohamed Walid
      Pages 271-285
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About this book

This book showcases vital lessons learned from research, field projects and best practice examples with regard to climate change adaptation in countries throughout the Pacific region, a part of the planet that is particularly vulnerable to and affected by climate change.The book's primary goals are to document the wealth of experiences in the region available today, to encourage cross-sector interactions among the various stakeholders in the region, and to help transfer results to other countries and regions. Accordingly, it gathers a set of papers presented at a symposium on climate change adaptation held in Fiji in July 2016, focusing on "Fostering Resilience and Improving the Quality of Life". In these contributions, local and international experts present a variety of initiatives showing how Pacific countries are coping with the many problems associated with climate change, including initiatives in education and awareness work taking place across the region, operational aspects and their implications for policy-making, and challenges in urban and rural areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Professor Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has in excess of 250 publications to his credit, among which ground-breaking books such as "Handbook of Climate Change Management" and others. He teaches on information, education, communication on climate change at various European universities. He has over 20 years of research experience and has a particular interest on the connections between climate and human behavior.

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