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Peter Schuhmann, Ryan Skeete, Richard Waite, Prosper Bangwayo-Skeete, James Casey, Hazel A. Oxenford and David A. Gill
Seawater quality is critical for island and coastal communities dependent on coastal tourism. Improper management of coastal development and inland watersheds can decrease seawater quality and adversely impact marine life, human health, and economic grow...
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Gregorio Rosario Michel, María Ester Gonzalez-Campos, Fernando Manzano Aybar and Joep Crompvoets
The Dominican Republic (DR) is a small island developing state (SIDS) highly exposed to disaster-risk phenomena, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enables coordination and sharing of spatial information and servi...
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Neiler Medina, Arlex Sanchez and Zoran Vojinovic
Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature ...
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Mengzhi Xu, Jixia Li and Shixin Luan
Regional climate change is affected by global warming, large-scale inter-regional circulation, and land use/cover. As a result of different ecological, economic, and social conditions, climate adaptation actions vary from region to region, including comm...
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Liana Ricci and Maryline Mangenot
Adaptation is crucial for addressing current and future climate change challenges in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and climate finance instruments, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) can play a key role in increasing their adaptive capacity an...
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Kalim U. Shah, Pravesh Raghoo and Dinesh Surroop
Energy efficiency and conservation policy continues to take the proverbial ?backseat? to energy access and renewable energy policy discourses in small island developing states (SIDS). In this study, we intend to motivate the energy efficiency policy agen...
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Gregorio Rosario Michel, Fernando Manzano Aybar, Leris Neris Guzmán, Christian Villalta Calderón, Teodoro Jiménez Durán and Joep Crompvoets
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) increasingly face natural hazards that overwhelm their capacity to generate and share spatial-information to reduce human?economic losses. Under such circumstances, the emergency mapping team (EMT) enables a common o...
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Brandon J. Bethel, Yana Buravleva and Decai Tang
Following the global shutdown of tourism at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, small island developing states such as The Bahamas had their economies immobilized due to their heavy dependence on the industry. Beyond economic recovery in a post COVID-19 ...
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Aaron A. Chadee, Indrajit Ray and Xsitaaz T. Chadee
Underestimating costs in major public sector social infrastructure development projects is a highly contested and problematic issue. Several gaps exist in the identification of root causes of cost overruns. Behavioural science academics advocate politica...
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Walter Leal Filho, Murukesan Krishnapillai, Henry Sidsaph, Gustavo J. Nagy, Johannes M. Luetz, Jack Dyer, Michael Otoara Ha?apio, Peni Hausia Havea, Kushaal Raj, Priyatma Singh, Tom Rogers, Chunlan Li, Monica K. Boodhan, Franziska Wolf, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal and Hossein Azadi
Small Island States (SIDS) are among the nations most exposed to climate change (CC) and are characterised by a high degree of vulnerability. Their unique nature means there is a need for more studies focused on the limits to CC adaptation on such fragil...
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