Pacific islands

Project / This project aims to critically examine how the dynamics of geopolitics, human security and global environmental change interrelate.

2017 - 2024 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster Risk, Geopolitics, Innovation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals

Can community-based adaptation increase resilience?

Journal article

28 September 2016 / About Adaptation, Mitigation and Participation

A boy walks through the main square of Nui Island in Tuvalu, flooded for weeks after Cyclone Pam. Photo: Silke von Brockhausen/UNDP

Q&A: Frank Thomalla on disaster risk in the Asia Pacific region

Feature

2 June 2016 / About Adaptation, Cities and Disaster Risk

Increasing vulnerability to the impacts of natural hazards and extreme events

Other publication / This report chapter examines the factors that are driving disaster risk in the Asia and Pacific region.

20 May 2016 / About Disaster Risk

Adaptation and resilience in Vanuatu: Interpreting community perceptions of vulnerability, knowledge and power for community-based adaptation programming

Other publication

15 February 2016 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Climate services, Disaster Risk and Participation

Central Port Vila, Vanuatu, 29 Nov. 2006

Sensors for clean water

Project / Access to safe drinking water continues to be a challenge globally. This project uses a participatory approach for technology innovation in Vanuatu.

2016 - 2018 / About Sanitation and Water resources