Climate change and small island states : power, knowledge, and the South Pacific / Jon Barnett and John Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Jon, 1971-

Contributor:

Campbell, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy--Oceania.

Climatic changes.

Human ecology--Oceania.

Human ecology.

Oceania--Climate.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause c?l?bre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their people has been remarkably slow.This book is the first to apply a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically and scie

Contents:

Cover; Climate Change and Small Island States: Power, Knowledge and the South Pacific; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 The Trouble with Climate Change; Introduction; Pacific Island countries; Climate change and the Pacific Islands; About this book; 2 Environment and Development in Pacific Islands; Pacific Island environments; Early transformations: Traditional human environment systems; Colonization and environmental transformation; The post-colonial Pacific: Environment and development; Conclusions

3 The History and Architecture of Climate ScienceInitial stirrings; International research programmes; The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Big science and big pictures; Conclusions; 4 Pacific Science Initiatives; The Association of South Pacific Environmental Institutions initiative; Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme initiatives; START-Oceania (including APN and AIACC); Lacunae; Conclusions; 5 The Architecture of Climate Change Policy; The emergence of climate change as a global policy issue; The UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol

The Global Environmental FacilityThe Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS); The Pacific Islands Forum; Australia and New Zealand; Conclusions; 6 Doing Climate Change in the Pacific; An overview of projects and programmes; Regional responses; Projects funded bilaterally; Projects implemented by NGOs; Conclusions; 7 Investing in Uncertainty and Vulnerability; The South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring project; The Environmental Vulnerability Index project; Conclusions; 8 Discourses of Danger; Insularity: Smallness and isolation; What is vulnerability?; Island vulnerability

Titanic statesClimate refugees; Conclusions; 9 Conclusions; Three themes; To the future; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-54285-X

9786612617355

1-136-54286-8

1-282-61735-4

1-84977-489-7

9781849774895

OCLC:

609863798