Disaster-Risk, Water Security Challenges and Strategies in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) [PDF]
Water, 2019 Small island developing states (SIDS) are typically characterized by being environmentally and socio-economically vulnerable to disasters and climate change. Additionally, they often have limited resources for freshwater provisioning services. This article presents an assessment of disaster risk and water security-related challenges in SIDS focusing on
Jana Gheuens +2 more
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Sustainable waste management in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) [PDF]
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 2014 No Full ...
Agamuthu, P, Herat, Sunil
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Climate change: thinking small islands beyond Small Island Developing States (SIDS) [PDF]
Climatic Change, 2019 Sea level rise and extreme weather events threaten the livelihoods and possibly the long-term existence of whole island nations. While the media, policy, and often scientific arenas essentially focus their attention on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which are widely recognised as hotspots of global climate change, the situation of the numerous ...
Jan Petzold, Alexandre K. Magnan
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Economic Vulnerability and Resilience of Small Island States [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2007 This essay assesses the principles of economic vulnerability and resilience and their contribution to the study and development of small island developing states (SIDS). It is based on a detailed critical account of the contents of a recent publication -
Te’o I. J. Fairbairn
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Global Warming and Displacement: Challenges and Solutions in the Maldives
Revista Tecnológica, 2022 For Small Island Developing States such as the Maldives, climate change poses an existential threat to the future and welfare of their countries’ populations.
Roma Beke
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Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries: A Focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 The Millennium Development Goals explicitly recognise “sustainable development” as a target. A step towards this is a greater understanding of the significant role of biodiversity in rural communities of developing countries who depend most on the ecosystem goods and services and who as a result may suffer most from its continued degradation ...
Sonja S. Teelucksingh +1 more
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Linking ecosystem services and the Sustainable Development Goals in Small Island Developing States: the case of Aruba [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2021 The economy and well-being in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other Subnational Island Jurisdictions (SNIJ) highly rely on marine and coastal ecosystem services (ESS). Moreover, SIDS and SNIJ share common challenges in achieving the Sustainable
Elena Palacios +5 more
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Small Island Developing States and their suitability for electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid services [PDF]
, 2018 Small Island Developing States (SIDS), while at the forefront of international climate action, face a number of development challenges linked to their historic, geographic and socio-economic characteristics.
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Unique Opportunities of Island States to Transition to a Low-Carbon Mobility System [PDF]
, 2020 Small islands developing states (SIDS) contribute minuscule proportions to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption, but are highly exposed to climate change impacts, in particular to extreme weather events and sea-level rise. However,
Blechinger, Philipp +2 more
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Topographic and thematic (in)visibility of Small Island Developing States in a world map
Journal of Maps, 2020 Many world maps visualize global data to represent the statistical and spatial relationships among countries. These maps are typically printed in reports or displayed online at a small scale. At such scale, small nations are difficult to perceive or even
Jessica Gosling-Goldsmith +2 more
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