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This guide responds to the emerging needs of many communities in the Pacific Islands whose members
are expressing concerns about storm damage, sea-level rise, and the frequency and severity of coastal
flooding events and shoreline erosion. For the purpose of the guide, the term “coastal zone” refers to
the entire area from the upland forest out to the reef edge. On small low-lying islands and atolls, the
entire island would be considered the coastal zone.
The term “coastal change” refers to:
1. Flooding of coastal lowlands from any, or combination, of the following: high (king) tides;
typhoons/cyclones/storms; large ocean swells; and heavy rainfall leading to storm water, river,
or stream flooding.
2. Gain or loss of land along the shoreline, which is the area of the coastal zone that directly
interacts with the sea and is changeable (e.g. sandy beaches, mangroves, cliffs).
With existing tools, communities have been able to identify the potential impacts of threats and
hazards to the coastal zone. However, understanding the complex interaction between natural coastal
systems and human development in order to determine effective responses often requires further
technical assistance, which is often not accessible.
Strategies to address the impacts of coastal erosion and flooding also tend to focus on reactive
approaches, normally through engineering projects such as building seawalls. In many cases, these
“solutions” have negatively impacted the surrounding environment and have increased conflicts with
other community values. Likewise, they are typically short-term in effectiveness, ignoring the role
inappropriate human development often plays as a key driver of the problem. Furthermore, these
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This guide is designed to support a community-based or local level management and adaptation planning
process. It can be used to explore the non-climate change and climate change threats within a defined
geographic area or community in which there is a clear governing structure and decision-making process.
The area can be large or small as long as the planning team involved in facilitating the process has decisionmaking
authority or has the support from the governing authority of the area. For example, the area might
be defined as a small coastal community that has land and sea tenure. Or, the area might be a small region
of the coastline with several communities that is governed by a central agency or group. However, this
tool is not designed for urbanized or densely populated areas with complex social and governance systems.
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Exercises relating to climate change.
Below are a large variety of exercises that can be used for inspiration to help shape your work on awareness raising in trainings, workshops, within communities, at schools or with (youth) volunteers.
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Scientist say climate change is already happening and temperatures will go on rising. They expect more extreme and more erratic weather. Sea levels will rise. hundreds of millions of poor people countries will be hit hardest.
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Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural hazards. Situated in the Pacific’s ‘ring of fire’ and ‘cyclone belt’, it regularly experiences volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, cyclones and at times tsunamis, drought and flood. With the onset of climate change, extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity, and sea levels are rising.
Recognizing the need to build a ‘culture of safety’ in the face of hazards, Save the Children has launched a program in partnership with the Vanuatu Ministry of Education to develop quality Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) curriculum materials for primary schools. The goal of the program is to ensure that children, families and communities are better equipped to cope with and withstand hazard while also understanding what needs to be done to prevent hazards from turning into disasters.
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This booklets consist of information on the possible causes and impacts of climate change that is affecting our natural resources such as earthquakes,cyclones,landslides.It also gives instructions and advices to people on how to get prepared the recent issues of climates changes that is recently occuring.Its all written in English and Bislama
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This is a course outline provided by the Vanuatu Institude of teachers college providing infomation on learning about the planet Earth. The Portfolio is made up of activities that you are expected to complete during your 1 hour non-contact time. It is therefore advisable that you buy an exercise book that you can use for this purpose. The activities in this course are designed as a review of basic skills required for Earth Science, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. Thus it is very important that you complete all the activities required for each of these modules
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Most modern astronomers believe that the universe began about 15 billion years ago when a very dense mass of material exploded in the so-called BIG BANG. This explosion sent all the materials of the universe outward in all directions, so that our universe is still expanding. All the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids and other bodies in the universe were formed or are forming from the gas and dust of this enormous explosion. New stars continue to be formed, while others die or disappear into “black holes”.
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This pamplet provides some of the important informations about what we can do when there is a Tsunami warning taking place.
This are some of the first and main facts to be aware of and it is some of the knowledge that could save your life.
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These factsheets describe or gives awareness on Ozone depleting substances.
The Harmonized commodity description and coding system often refered to "Harmonized System" or simply 'HS' is an international product nomenclature developed and maintained by the world customs organisation (WCO).
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Set of posters that guves awareness of climate change and its impacts and adaptations.
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