Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action
Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action
复制标题
DOI：
10.1002/wcc.769
复制
发表时间：
2022-02-23
影响因子：
9.2
通讯作者：
Evans, Christopher
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Foley, Aideen M.;Moncada, Stefano;Evans, Christopher
小岛屿发展中国家 (SIDS) 受到了 COVID-19 的影响并对其做出了反应，这为我们提供了有关气候变化下的脆弱性以及恢复途径的线索。在此，我们借鉴加勒比海、太平洋和印度洋小岛屿发展中国家的案例研究实例，反思其中的一些经验，探讨小岛屿发展中国家如何应对 COVID-19，并考虑针对这一流行病制定应对机制以支持长期抵御气候变化的潜力。岛屿对这一流行病的应对措施凸显了两个新方向，例如利用巴巴多斯和毛里求斯远程工作兴起的旅游计划，以及依赖经过考验的应对机制，例如斐济的物物交换。为应对疫情压力而采取的一些行动，例如促进“数字游牧”的签证计划和增加国内粮食产量的努力，具有气候适应能力和公平性，如果要发挥其为更可持续的岛屿未来做出贡献的潜力，就必须充分发挥这些行动的潜力。重要的是，这里描述的背景和经验的多样性表明，小岛屿发展中国家没有单一的“最佳”途径来实现大流行后气候适应力的未来。尽管有关 COVID-19 复苏的新兴言论经常谈到“路线图”，但我们认为，随着更广泛的小岛屿发展中国家社区通过创新和实验以及知识共享而出现解决方案，小岛屿发展中国家实现具有气候适应能力的 COVID-19 复苏之旅可能会走弯路。本文分类为：气候与发展 > 气候变化的可持续性和人类福祉综合评估 > 在其他问题的背景下评估气候变化
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID-19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID-19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to support long-term resilience to climate change. Island responses to the pandemic highlight both new directions, like tourist schemes that capitalize on the rise of remote working in Barbados and Mauritius, and reliance on tried and tested coping mechanisms, like bartering in Fiji. Some of the actions undertaken to respond to the pressures of the pandemic, such as visa schemes promoting "digital nomadism" and efforts to grow domestic food production, have climate resilience and equity dimensions that must be unpacked if their potential to contribute to more sustainable island futures is to be realized. Importantly, the diversity of contexts and experiences described here illustrates that there is no single "best" pathway to climate-resilient post-pandemic futures for SIDS. While the emerging rhetoric of COVID-19 recovery often speaks of "roadmaps," we argue that the journey towards a climate-resilient COVID-19 recovery for SIDS is likely to involve detours, as solutions emerge through innovation and experiment, and knowledge-sharing across the wider SIDS community. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Sustainability and Human Well-Being Integrated Assessment of Climate Change > Assessing Climate Change in the Context of Other Issues