Guidance Note on the Application of Coastal Modelling for Small Island Developing States.

View/ Open
Average rating
votes
Date
2020Author
Wolf, Judith
Becker, Amani
Bricheno, Lucy
Brown, Jenny
Byrne, David
De Dominicis, Michela
Phillips, Ben
Status
PublishedPages
47pp.
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are very diverse, but have something in common: they are all vulnerable to human-induced climate change, but have contributed very little to causing the problem, due to their small size and limited development. Much time has been spent in debating climate change and adaptation strategies for such countries, but little has been done in developing practical tools to assist them in managing the coastal zone. In this report we aim to address that.
In April 2017, some senior staff members from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) visited St Vincent and the Grenadines, as part of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded Neptune programme. At that time, some of the issues around coastal erosion on the east coast of St Vincent were identified, as well as some extreme events from which St Vincent and the Grenadines had suffered substantial losses of GDP. This was followed up by a workshop in January 2018 on ‘Implementing and Monitoring the Sustainab.....
Resource URL
https://www.cmeprogramme.org/sites/cme-programme/files/documents/reports/Becker_et_al_NOC_R&C_74_2020.pdfPublisher
National Oceanography CentreLiverpool, UK
Series;Nr
National Oceanography Centre Research & Consultancy Report;73Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14.aEssential Ocean Variables (EOV)
N/ASpatial Coverage
Caribbean SeaSt Vincent and the Grenadines
Citation
Wolf, J., Becker, A., Bricheno, L., Brown, J., Byrne, D., De Dominicis, M. and Phillips, B. (2020) Guidance Note on the Application of Coastal Modelling for Small Island Developing States. Liverpool, UK, National Oceanography Centre, 47pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, No. 73), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1732Collections