Dr Stefano Moncada, Director of the Islands and Small States Institute, and Climate Change Platform Focal Point, and Prof. Lino Briguglio, professor of economics based at the Islands and Small States Institute, have just published a book with Springer entitled ‘Small Island Developing States - Vulnerability and Resilience Under Climate Change’. The book was co-edited with Prof. Hillary Bambrick, Prof. Ilan Kelman, Prof. Catherine Iorns and Prof. Leonard Nurse, world-renowned scholars in different fields of climate change.
The book includes a total of 17 chapters and explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change.
The contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the India
n, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.
Dr Moncada and Prof Briguglio in the introduction, contextualise the book within current literature, emphasising the importance of stronger links between climate change science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose communities are often excluded by mainstream research.
This book is timely and appropriate, given the upcoming work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, “especially in islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy development opportunities” following the Paris Agreement. Coupled with this, there is also the need to support the policy community with further scientific evidence on climate change–related issues in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The book is available to be downloaded as an e-book, including individual chapters, or as printed edition.
Malta, 21 October 2021 - For further details/interviews please contact Dr Stefano Moncada either by sending an email or by phone +356 23402117.