... Disaster risk Small Island Developing States SIDS Pacific islands Climate change implications Many of the most destructive disasters of the past few decades occurred in the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, but in per capita terms, the Pacific itself is a higher risk region (Noy, 2016b...

... developing states (SIDs) as well as those on continental land masses around the Caribbean Sea endure frequent natural hazard impacts. In the last decade alone there have been three large-scale disasters, multiple flooding, and landslides and a few droughts that have exposed weaknesses in the regional...