Planning, the urban poor and climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): unmitigated disaster or inclusive adaptation?

Butcher-Gollach, Colleen

doi:10.3828/idpr.2015.17

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“…Other studies have examined types of adaptation measures that are used by different stakeholders in SIDS at the local level, largely focusing on specific livelihoods (61,98,99). For example, fishers in the Caribbean have adapted to climate change by going further out to sea, reducing the number of fishing days, and changing the type and site of fishing (56,65).…”

Section: Adaptation Planning and Implementationmentioning

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Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Thomas

Baptiste

Martyr-Koller

et al. 2020

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

152

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Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United Nations recognizes them as a special group. SIDS have been quite vocal in calling attention to the challenges they face from climate change and advocating for greater international ambition to limit global warming. Here, we unpack factors that are helpful in understanding the relationship between climate change and SIDS through a review of studies that span disciplines and methodologies. We assess patterns of hazards, exposure, and vulnerability; impacts and risks; awareness and knowledge; adaptation planning and implementation; mitigation; loss and damage; and climate justice to provide an overarching review of literature on climate change and SIDS. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 45 is October 19, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Adaptation Planning and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Thomas

Baptiste

Martyr-Koller

et al. 2020

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

152

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“…The Republic of Vanuatu became independent in 1980 after joint colonial rule by Britain and France, which began in 1906. A small island developing state (SIDS: Butcher‐Gollach, 2015), Vanuatu's national accounts placed its per‐capita income at around USD $3,260 in 2019 (International Monetary Fund, 2019), just behind Tunisia and the Philippines and well under its Pacific neighbour Fiji ($6,380). The country's urban growth has been clocked at 4% overall and anywhere from 3% to 12% in the urban periphery (Jones and Sanderson, 2017).…”

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Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

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2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article is dedicated to Mr. Wycliff Tarilenga; may he rest in eternal peace. I would like to thank the Elang Etas Community Association and members of the Elang Etas community who have enabled me to write about their experiences. Special thanks go to Sam Tabawa, the late Wycliff Tarilenga, Jenny Sale, Brian Merah, Margaret Seule and Meriam Tabawa-but this is by no means an exhaustive list. Melisa Hango has been my constant friend and colleague and has always been there when I needed her. Thanks also to the following reviewers for their contributions to the article: the Pacific Interest Group (PIG) at the University of Melbourne, including excellent comments by Sergio Jarillo and Monica Minnegal; Sophie Sturup for her language and thoughtfulness; Ihnji Jon for some pointers into the literature; David Week for his excellent suggestions on decolonizing the article; and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh for helping me see past urban studies. Thanks, finally, to the anonymous IJURR reviewers, whose comments markedly improved the article. I am especially grateful to the referee who helped me to summarize my purpose better than I could do it myself. This work was funded in part by the University of Melbourne and the Regional Studies Association. The University of Melbourne provided travel funding, and the RSA funded some of my engagements (workshops and training) with the Elang Etas community as part of a Research Network Grant for the RSA Research Network on Academic-Practitioner Collaboration for Urban Settlements, South Pacific (APCUS-SP). These events built trust between me and the community and helped me to improve my understanding of their work.

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“…Informal settlements are highly vulnerable to climate change for several reasons. Various studies highlight how these communities are established in low lying coastal areas, on flood-prone riverbanks, on unstable hillsides, and in other hazard-prone areas, have poorly designed infrastructures to resist climate events, and have minimal attention from local or central governments that often ignore them, hide them, or try to make them invisible [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. The combination of these factors makes these communities highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.…”

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Urban Informality in the Paris Climate Agreement: Content Analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions of Highly Urbanized Developing Countries

2019

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Climate change related events affect informal settlements, or slums, disproportionally more than other areas in a city or country. This article investigates the role of slums in the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for the Paris Agreement of a selected group of 28 highly urbanized developing countries. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze first the general content in these NDCs and second the proposed role, or lack thereof, of slums in these documents. The results show that for most of the analyzed countries, context-based climate policies for slums are not part of the strategies presented in the NDCs. We argue that a lack of policies involving informal settlements might limit the capacity of developing countries to contribute to the main goals of the Paris Agreement, as these settlements are significant portions of their urban populations. One of the hopeful prospects of the NDCs is that they will be reviewed in 2020 for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26). With this paper, we aim to stimulate discussions about the crucial role that informal settlements should play in the NDCs of developing countries in the background of the synergies required between climate change actions and sustainable development.

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Planning, the urban poor and climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): unmitigated disaster or inclusive adaptation?

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Sister Communities: Rejecting Labels of Informality and Peripherality in Vanuatu

Urban Informality in the Paris Climate Agreement: Content Analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions of Highly Urbanized Developing Countries

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