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Climate Variability and Change and Sea-level Rise in the Pacific Islands Region

A Resource Book for Policy and Decision Makers, Educators and other Stakeholders

Japan MOE	SPREP

John E. Hay, Nobuo Mimura, John Campbell, Solomone Fifita, Kanayathu Koshy, Roger F. McLean, Taito Nakalevu, Patrick Nunn and Neil de Wet

This Resource Book has been written to provide policy- and decision-makers in Pacific Island Countries with a coherent, authoritative and readily accessible body of knowledge and resource materials that characterise the region’s resilience and vulnerability to climate and sea-level variability and change and identify a suite of proven and potential response options that are deserving of further consideration and implementation. Its second objective is to provide educators, outreach and related practitioners with an integrated and functional resource portfolio for use in formal education and professional development programmes and in support of efforts to enhance political and public awareness of the implications of global and regional variability and change for the Pacific Islands Region.

The Book comprises four main sections, reflecting the four principal dimensions of the climate issue – the changing climate, the observed and potential impacts, and the two broad categories of policy responses and actions, namely mitigation and adaptation.

SPREP has published the book in collaboration with the Global Environment Bureau of the Japan Ministry of the Environment, which funded the whole project. The book was available in the first quarter of 2003 and may be ordered from SPREP.

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• Key messages
• Preface
• Summary

Click to download pdfs:

•      Preliminaries 60 kb
• 1   Introduction 100 kb
• 2   Climate and Sea-Level Variability and Change: Processes and Projections 4.4 Mb
• 3   Consequences of Climate and Sea-Level Variability and Change 1.2 Mb
• 4   Regional, National and Community-based Responses to Climate and Sea-Level - Mitigation 184 kb
• 5   Regional, National and Community-based Responses to Climate and Sea-Level - Adaptation 1.3 Mb
• 6   International Responses to Climate and Sea-Level Variability and Change 102 kb
• 7   Retrospect and Prospects 10 kb
• 8   References 66 kb
• 9   Selected Web Sites 7 kb
• 10 Index 15 kb
•      Complete book 7.38 Mb