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A Survey of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island States

In: Climate Change and Global Warming

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  • Tauisi Taupo

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This paper surveys the conceptual framework of disaster risk that relies on its associated components of hazard, vulnerability and exposure. How we measure these risks depends on how we define disaster risk and its components. We focus on the implication and applicability of available conceptual frameworks of disaster risk on small and low-lying islands in the Pacific. We examine some of the available measurements of these disaster risks as they are imperative to the formulation of appropriate disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies for Tuvalu. Though there are diverse views on these definitions in different disciplines, we can capitalise on their commonalities to frame disaster risk models. Here, we intend to use the findings and set a pathway for potential research and to contribute into building resilience, reducing DRR and improving responsiveness to the impact of climatic disasters in Pacific Islands.

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  • Tauisi Taupo, 2019. "A Survey of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island States," Chapters, in: Ata Amini (ed.), Climate Change and Global Warming, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:160167
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.80266
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    Keywords

    disaster risk; hazard; exposure; vulnerability; resilience;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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