Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change: the Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu

Autor:	Harold E. Cuffe, Ilan Noy, Tauisi Taupo
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics geography.geographical_feature_category Poverty business.industry 050204 development studies 05 social sciences Environmental resource management Vulnerability Climate change Atoll Management Monitoring Policy and Law Econometric model Geography 0502 economics and business 050207 economics Small Island Developing States Socioeconomics business Social policy
Zdroj:	Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. 20:705-739
ISSN:	1867-383X 1432-847X
DOI:	10.1007/s10018-018-0212-2
Popis:	This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu. Small Island Developing States, particularly the atoll nations, are the most vulnerable to climatic change, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. Using the most recent household surveys available, we construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on the different islands of Tuvalu, and combine these with geographic and topographic information to assess the exposure differentials among different groups using spatial econometric models. Besides the observation that poor households are more vulnerable to negative shocks because they lack the resources to respond, we also find that they are also more likely to reside in areas highly exposed to disasters (closer to the coasts and at lower elevation) and have less ability to migrate (between and within the islands).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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