What is it about?
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean and the Pacific,are amongst the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. Yet urban planning and management systems and practices in these rapidly urbanizing countries - including 'best practice' adaptation investments, disregard the potential benefits of well-managed, evidence-informed urbanization and inadvertently serve to further marginalize the urban poor living in extra-legal, informal settlements on hazardous lands. We put forward a number of successful lessons from the field for better targeted climate change adaptation measures in these small, vulnerable countries, so as to be more inclusive of the poor.
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The paper draws on practice-oriented research that sits at the nexus of urban planning approaches for low income earners and the complex science of accurately understanding the probability of multiple natural hazard risks and predicting the long-term consequences of climate change at a small island scale. The case studies provided are from some of the smallest and most remote island countries on the globe and at the forefront of the impacts of climate change that is not of their own making.
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This page is a summary of: Planning, the urban poor and climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): unmitigated disaster or inclusive adaptation?, International Development Planning Review, April 2015, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2015.17.
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