Abstract Pacific Island Countries and Territories have set ambitious targets for energy
access and the transition to sustainable energy. These efforts, however, are being severely …

Despite contributing less than 1% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Small Island
Developing States (SIDS) have the potential to drive global mitigation actions by advocating …

Purpose This paper aims to address a gap in investigating specific impacts of climate
change on mental health in the Pacific region, a region prone to extreme events. This paper …

Millions are living in shelters around the world, often for decades. Architects are rarely
trained in shelter design and as a result speculative designs are frequently impractical or …

Much of the disaster risk reduction (DRR) scholarship has focused on failures while
neglecting positive developments, particularly in developing countries. In part, this bias …

Humanitarian shelter assistance increasingly employs build back safer messages as a
technical assistance tool to disaster-affected communities. We sought to prioritise the …

Residential infrastructure, particularly multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs), lacks
sufficient attention to resilience. This oversight is attributed to the absence of specific …

This article presents a summary of the results obtained as part of the ANR (French National
Research Agency)-RELEV project, which focuses on the long-term recovery and …

Rural areas are vulnerable to natural disasters and tend to suffer severe losses. An EF4
tornado occurred in Funing on 23 June 2016, killing 99 people, injuring at least 846 people …

The coastal settlements in Bangladesh experienced recurring tropical cyclones and tidal
surges in recent history because of geographical influences and global climate change …