Small Island Developing States

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Book

Chapter 2 States of ‘Knowing’: Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Risk in SIDS Climate Change Impacts

Chapter 3 Climate and Development Research in Small Island Developing States: The Benefits of a Political Ecology Approach

Chapter 4 Community Participation, Situated Knowledge and Climate Change (Mal-) Adaptation in Rural Island Communities: Evidence from Artificial Shoreline-Protection Structures in Fiji

Chapter 5 Widening the Scope of Disaster Preparedness in the Caribbean: Building Resilience Through Improving Climate Information

Chapter 6 Sustainable Land Use Systems in Natural Resource Policies: The Role of Agroforestry in the Rio Conventions for Small Island Developing States

Chapter 7 Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: Insights from the Small Island Economy of Mauritius

Chapter 8 The Early Development of the Small Island Developing States’ Climate Governance: A Disproportionate Impact on UN Climate Negotiations

Chapter 9 Social and Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Gender Dimension for Indian Ocean Islands

Chapter 10 Vulnerability of Jamaica’s South Coast Fishing Communities to Coastal Erosion and Flooding

Chapter 11 Fisheries Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States

Chapter 13 Human Mobility and Disasters in Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Chapter 14 Climate Change and the Case of Grenada’s Blue Growth Plan: Using the SDGs to Propose a Policy Planning Framework for SIDS’s Sustainable Development

Chapter 15 Identifying Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Challenges in the Caribbean SIDS: An Urban Morphological Approach

Chapter 16 The Contentious Policies of Place and Space: The Maldives, Overpopulation, and Climate Concerns

Chapter 17 Coral Islands, Climate Change and Distant Destinies? The View from Kiribati