Assessing vulnerability to climate change and socioeconomic stressors in the Reef Islands group, Solomon Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9849463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Birk (University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-75 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7223 • E-ISSN: 1903-2471 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00167223.2013.878228 |
| OpenAlex | W1996379569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 48 |
This article assesses the vulnerability to climatic and socioeconomic stresses in the Reef Islands, Solomon Islands, an atoll island group in the Southwest Pacific. Climate change and the associated sea-level rise are often seen as the most pressing challenges to atoll communities, yet this study aims at critically re-assessing this view by placing climate in the context of a range of other internal and external stressors affecting local livelihoods, including population growth, inadequate land use practices, and lack of economic potential, as well as external factors such as poorly developed infrastructure, economic marginalization and weak governance of Solomon Islands. Findings suggest that some of these non-climatic stresses are currently – and in the short term – more important determinants of local vulnerability than climate change and sea-level rise. Certainly, these stresses are likely to be exacerbated by different elements of climate change in the short, medium and long term, but generally speaking climate change does not appear to be a major driver of the current changes in the islands. On the basis of these observations, the possible adaptation options, relevant to different time scales, are discussed
Atoll · Climate change · Context (archaeology · Geography · Livelihood · Population · Reef · Small Island Developing States · Socioeconomic status · Vulnerability (computing · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Climate variability and models · Demography · Geology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Oceanography
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |