This project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, aims to build new and urgent interdisciplinary analysis and policy recommendations concerning of one of the greatest challenges of our time: how Pacific islanders and their states prepare for, and react to, what may be the demise of their sovereign land and sea territories. In the Pacific Islands, whose people contribute the least to global warming, but are facing its most severe effects, sea-level rise and erosion of land combine to create a challenging situation not documented historically: entire nations risk partial or total loss of ...[more]
