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Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.13(3), pp.1-11
2022
Appears in COVID-19 Research
Abstract
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 as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID-19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to support long-term resilience to climate change. Island responses to the pandemic highlight both new directions, like tourist schemes that capitalize on the rise of remote working in Barbados and Mauritius, and reliance on tried and tested coping mechanisms, like bartering in Fiji. Some of the actions undertaken to respond to the pressures of the pandemic, such as visa schemes promoting " digital nomadism " and efforts to grow domestic food production, have climate resilience and equity dimensions that must be unpacked if their potential to contribute to more sustainable island futures is to be realized. Importantly, the diversity of contexts and experiences described here illustrates that there is no single " best " pathway to climate-resilient post-pandemic futures for SIDS. While the emerging rhetoric of COVID-19 recovery often speaks of " roadmaps, " we argue that the journey towards a climate-resilient COVID-19 recovery for SIDS is likely to involve detours, as solutions emerge through innovation and experiment, and knowledge-sharing across the wider SIDS community.
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- Title
- Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action
- Authors
- Aideen Foley (Corresponding Author) - University of LondonStefano Moncada (Author) - University of MaltaMichelle Mycoo (Author) - University of the West IndiesPatrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyVerena Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Author) - University of MauritiusChristopher Evans (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol.13(3), pp.1-11
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1002/wcc.769
- ISSN
- 1757-7799; 1757-7780
- Copyright note
- © 2022 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99621740702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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