Island communities stand to be among the first and most adversely affected by the impacts of
global climate change. Rising sea levels, changing precipitation and storm patterns, and …

Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to climate change impacts
including sea level rise, invasive species, ocean acidification, changes in rainfall patterns …

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and strategies are well established within the
international development community, being utilised at the grassroots level to address all …

This study examines farmers' perceptions of short-and long-term variability in climate, their
ability to discern trends in climate and how the perceived trends converge with actual …

The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice
of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …

Pacific Island nations face similar challenges from climate change to those faced by other
developing nations, yet these are exacerbated by the comparative smallness, remoteness …

Small island developing states (SIDS) are portrayed as icons of climate change impacts,
with assumed islandness characteristics being used to emphasize vulnerability. Meanwhile …

No single knowledge form can be a panacea for disaster risk reduction, but, as this article
shows, indigenous knowledge has the potential for contributing far more than is usually …

Climate change is frequently touted as the biggest development challenge that faces
humanity. Such rhetoric may be distracting from other development challenges which need …

As in the past, most P acific Island people live today along island coasts and subsist largely
on foods available both onshore and offshore. On at least two occasions in the 3500 years …