Overview
- Comprehensively discusses the impacts of climate change in the Pacific region
- Develops databases and formulates island vulnerability indices to map climate change susceptibilities in Pacific island states
- Identifies the Pacific islands and countries most vulnerable to climate change, and the possible adaptation strategies that may be implemented there
Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Pacific island Countries (PICs)
- Island nation emissions
- Pacific Island Lithology
- Climate change susceptibility
- Projected sea level rises
- Whole-of-island susceptibility index
- Island sector vulnerabilities
- Tropical cyclones
- Population distribution in Pacific Islands
- Built infrastructures in the Pacific
- Climate risks to biodiversity
- Groundwater availability
- Island vulnerability
- Vulnerability of Pacific islands
- climate change
- Environmental Geography
About this book
This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities. By analyzing susceptibility variables, developing comprehensive vulnerability indexes, and applying GIS techniques, the book's authors demonstrate the particular issues presented by climate change in the islands of the Pacific region, and how these issues may be managed to preserve and improve biodiversity and human livelihoods.
The book first introduces the issues specific to island communities, such as high emissions impacts, and discusses the importance of the lithological traits of Pacific islands and how these physical factors relate to climate change impacts. From here, the book aims to analyze the various vulnerabilities of different island sectors, and to formulate a susceptibility index from these variables to be used by government and planning agencies for relief prioritization. Such variables include tropical cyclones, built infrastructures, proximity to coastal areas, agriculture, fisheries and marine resources, groundwater availability, biodiversity, and economic impacts on industries such as tourism. Through the categorization and indexing of these variables, human and physical adaptation measures are proposed, and support solutions are offered to aid the inhabitants of affected island countries. This book is intended for policy makers, academics, and climate change researchers, particularly those dealing with climate change impacts on small islands.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Lalit Kumar is a Professor in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England, NSW, Australia. He received his PhD in GIS/remote sensing at the University of New South Wales in 1998, has authored or co-authored 20 books or book chapters, and has published over 220 scientific papers in reputable journals. Additionally, he is an editor on a number international journals, such as Remote Sensing; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk; PLoS ONE; Sustainability; and Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. At UNE he teaches courses in GIS, remote sensing and image analysis, and spatial analysis and modeling. His research interests include the applications of spatial technologies, environmental modeling, ecological remote sensing, and climate change impacts on small island states in the Pacific and the Himalayas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific
Editors: Lalit Kumar
Series Title: Springer Climate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32878-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32877-1Published: 01 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32880-1Published: 01 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32878-8Published: 31 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2352-0698
Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 538
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Environmental Geography, Oceanography, Environmental Economics