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Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Enhancing Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Spatial Planning Framework

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Small Island Developing States

Part of the book series: The World of Small States ((WSS,volume 9))

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The inherent vulnerabilities of small island development states are exacerbated by weak implementation of spatial development policies and limited capacity to enforce against poor development practices. This chapter explores why the vulnerabilities of Caribbean small island development states to climate change are worsened by the undermining of spatial planning and presents a conceptual framework for planning reform that offers possibilities for enhancing resilience to climate change. It examines the spatial planning experience of Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia.

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  1. The Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Michelle Mycoo

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  1. Islands and Small States Institute, Institute for European Studies, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Stefano Moncada

  2. Islands and Small States Institute, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Lino Briguglio

  3. Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Hilary Bambrick

  4. Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

    Ilan Kelman

  5. University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Ilan Kelman

  6. Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Catherine Iorns

  7. CERMES, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

    Leonard Nurse

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Mycoo, M. (2021). Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Enhancing Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States: A Spatial Planning Framework. In: Moncada, S., Briguglio, L., Bambrick, H., Kelman, I., Iorns, C., Nurse, L. (eds) Small Island Developing States. The World of Small States, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82774-8_12

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