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Affected People in the South Pacific
Climate change transforms Pacific Islands
... South-West Pacific region are significantly affected by its cascading impacts. ... impacted more than 25 million people in the region.
Pacific Islands | Humanitarian Action
The Pacific region is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Small, vulnerable island states are isolated by vast expanses of ocean.
The Pacific Islands: The front line in the battle against climate change
There are over 25,000 Pacific Islands encompassing 15% of the Earth's surface. Although the population is relatively small, with over 2.3 ...
Climate Change and Pacific Islander Life | GJIA
Human-caused climate change is a major factor affecting Pacific islander life. The causes and impacts of climate change must be addressed, ...
Instability in the Pacific Islands: A status report - Lowy Institute
One of the most serious conflicts in the South Pacific region over the past two decades was the five-year civil conflict in Solomon Islands from ...
Climate Change and Indigenous People in the South Pacific
Sea level rise will affect coastal and island communities. Their homes and land will be inundated with salt water leading to land scarcity. Those living on ...
Pacific Islanders stay put even as the sea flood their homes and crops
Climate change is forcing people around the world to abandon their homes. In the Pacific Islands, rising sea levels are leaving communities ...
9 Facts About Poverty in the South Pacific - The Borgen Project
When economic crises, military conflict and general mayhem plague the continents, few people consider the impact such events may have on the ...
Pacific Islands | Humanitarian Action
It displaced an estimated 65,000 people and negatively impacted the livelihoods of over 80 per cent of Vanuatu's rural population. The 2015-2016 ...
Climate change impacts increase in South-West Pacific
Over 8 million people were directly affected by these hazards, and they caused total economic damage of close to US$ 9 billion. Storms were the ...
Modeling the Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Pacific Islands - PMC
The 1918 pandemic killed substantial proportions of the total population: Fiji ≈5.2%, Tonga ≈4.2% to 8.4%, Guam ≈4.5%, Tahiti ≈10%, and Western Samoa ≈19% to 22 ...
Pacific Islands Overview - World Bank
Eleven Pacific Island countries are members of the World Bank and have a combined population of about 2.3 million people, scattered across an area equivalent ...
Pacific Islands - Exploration, Colonization, Trade | Britannica
All of these sustained and prolonged contacts began to affect the island societies. In addition, there were increasing numbers of European ...
80 per cent of Tonga population impacted by eruption and tsunami
In total, about 84,000 people, more than 80 per cent of the population of the South Pacific Kingdom, have been affected by the disaster.
Climate Change and Migration Issues in the Pacific
Suva: United Nations Population. Fund and University of the South Pacific. (2010a). Climate change and population movement in Pacific island ...
Protecting the health of Pacific islanders from climate change and ...
Pacific countries and areas (PICs) are ecologically fragile and among the most vulnerable to climate change. The impact of climate change poses health risks ...
This includes more than 61,000 people from Oceania who had migrated to one of the nine semi-autonomous territories located within the Pacific ...
NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands
Pacific Island nations such as Kiribati — a low-lying country in the southern Pacific Ocean — are preparing now for a future of higher sea ...
An Overview of South Pacific Population Problems - ESCAP
Population growth rates (shown in table 2) are affected by migration rates; for a number of Pacific island countries, low growth rates are more the result of ...
Protecting the South Pacific - The Strategy Bridge
Countries, like China, are extending their influence into the South Pacific, affecting the approximately 40 million people that reside in the ...