Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment

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RT Generic T1 Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment A1 United Nations Environment Programme YR 2004 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9426 PB United Nations Environment Programme AB TY - GEN T1 - Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment AU - United Nations Environment Programme Y1 - 2004 UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9426 PB - United Nations Environment Programme AB - @misc{20.500.11822_9426 author = {United Nations Environment Programme}, title = {Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment}, year = {2004}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9426} } @misc{20.500.11822_9426 author = {United Nations Environment Programme}, title = {Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment}, year = {2004}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9426} } TY - GEN T1 - Pacific Islands: GIWA regional assessment AU - United Nations Environment Programme UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9426 PB - United Nations Environment Programme AB -View/Open
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This report presents the GIWA assessment of the Pacific Islands region, which comprises more than 20 Island nations or territories that exhibit enormous geomorphological, climatic, cultural and demographic diversity within a vast ocean expanse. The region is unique because its inhabitants, who have close links with, and great cultural, economic and spiritual dependence on, their terrestrial and marine environment, are often the owners and users of these resources and ultimately govern their conservation and sustainable use. In addition to highlighting the overexploitation of fish and other living resources in densely populated areas, this report emphasises the vulnerability of many of these small Island states to the impacts of climate change, particularly sea level rise and fluctuations in rainfall, which has enormous influence on the availability of freshwater in the region. The root causes of overexploitation and freshwater shortage are illustrated using several case studies and potential policy options and mitigate these problems in the future are discussed.
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