Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID-19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well pathways resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS considering potential for coping mechanisms enacted pandemic support long-term resilience change. responses highlight both new directions, like tourist schemes capitalize rise remote working Barbados Mauritius, reliance tried tested mechanisms, bartering Fiji. Some actions undertaken respond pressures pandemic, such visa promoting “digital nomadism” efforts grow domestic food production, equity dimensions must be unpacked if their contribute more sustainable island futures is realized. Importantly, diversity contexts described here illustrates there no single “best” pathway climate-resilient post-pandemic SIDS. While emerging rhetoric recovery often speaks “roadmaps,” argue journey towards a likely involve detours, solutions emerge through innovation experiment, knowledge-sharing across wider community. This article categorized under: Climate Development > Sustainability Human Well-Being Integrated Assessment Change Assessing Context Other Issues
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عنوان ژورنال: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1757-7780', '1757-7799']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.769