"Climate change responses in the Pacific: just transformation or transforming justice?"
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2026/02/13/climate-change-responses-in-the-pacific-just-transformation-or-transforming-justice
Based on the free-to-download paper https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70058
 
#Climate #ClimateChange #Pacific #Oceania #IslandStudies #Justice #Transformation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

New free-to-download paper:
"Climate Change Responses in the Pacific: Just Transformation or Transforming Justice?"
https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70058

#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceania #Pacific #IslandStudies #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #DRR #islands #Transformation #Justice

"Four island poems".
https://www.bluehumanitiesjournal.org/post/3719-four-island-poems-by-ilan-kelman
Published in "Blue Humanities" journal.
 
#islands #islands #islandstudies #poem #poems #poetry #IslandPhotography #IslandPhotos

It was a privilege to write two #ScienceCommunication articles for the UK's Royal Museums Greenwich including the National Maritime Museum:
1. "Atolls and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/atolls-climate-change
2. "Coastal storms and climate change" https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/coastal-storms-climate-change
 
#oceans #climate #climatechange #islands #DRR #StormSurge #atolls #IslandStudies #storms

New #PhotoEssay:
"Floodscapes for Inland Waterscapes: #Floods do not need to mean #disasters"
https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.266
 
More #PhotoEssays on avoiding #disasters:
1. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2395798
2. https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687 (scroll down for the PDF).
3. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
4. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2025-431
 
#IslandStudies #resilience #vulnerability #DRR #ScienceArt #ArtScience #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender

"Tsunamis and atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful"
https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/tsunamis-and-atolls-why-warnings-must-be-locally-meaningful
 
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies #Atolls #Tsunami #Tsunamis #NoNaturalDisasters #DisastersAreNotNatural #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters

New paper:
"Data Management for Sustainable Development: Case Analyses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)"
https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.70017

#island #islands #IslandStudies #SmallIslands #IslandStates #sustainable #development #Islandness #SustainableDevelopment #BigData #SmallData

Just-published and free-to-download:
"Visualizing #DisasterRiskReduction to Inspire Positive Action"
https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2395798
 
Other photo essays:
https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687
https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
 
#Islanders #IslandStudies #resilience #vulnerability #resiliency #DRR #ScienceArt #ArtScience #PhotoEssay #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRisk #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #DisasterPrevention

"Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago" - Pippa Marland's 2023 book explores creative non-fiction on the theme of islands through the lens of the #Anthropocene & #Ecocriticism 🏝️

#IslandStudies #BlueHumanities #WorldEmojiDay #LiteraryStudies

"Institutional capacity, useability of data, and evidence-based decision-making for sustainable development in Small Island Developing States"
A new working paper with Kalim Shah to input into the #SIDS4 meeting via ODI.
https://odi.org/en/publications/data-and-evidence-based-decision-making-for-sustainable-development
 
#IslandStudies #SmallIslands #BigData #SmallData #SustainableDevelopment #Islands

Disasters Avoided Newsletter #3
Focusing on avoiding and dealing with disasters on small islands.
https://mailchi.mp/836b22903485/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter

Supporting #SmallIslands #IslandStudies #SIDS4 #DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #NoNaturalDisasters #DisastersAreNotNatural

Conversations on:
1. Climate change and islands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyU-z53x7gU including #Maldives, with a comparison to #Bangladesh.
2. Climate change and conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6s-OW2HI4 including #Syria and #Sudan.

#ClimateChange #IslandStudies #Conflict #Climate #CCA #islands #islanders

📣 Special Issue announced “Island plant communities: natural experiments at the intersection of biogeography, conservation and global change ecology”

in the Journal of Vegetation Science!

Call for abstracts! Please spread the word and consider submitting if you have research that fits the scope!

https://vegsciblog.org/2024/01/16/special-issue-island-jvs/

#ecology #island #IslandStudies #science #journal #biodiversity #plants #plant #conservation

Just published:
"#ClimateChange, #CommunityAction, and #Health in the Anglophone #Caribbean: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2023.1605843

Led by Sonja Myhre with Michelle Scobie Eija Meriläinen Unni Gopinathan.

#IslandStudies #Climate #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth #PopulationHealth #PlanetaryHealth

Two photo essays, free-to-download, recently published:
 
1. "Land body ecologies: The London hub"
https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
 
2. "Islander Activism and Resistances: Any Role for Resiliences and Vulnerabilities?"
https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687 (scroll down for the PDF file).
 
#Islanders #IslandStudies #resilience #vulnerability #resiliency #DRR #ScienceArt #ArtScience #PhotoEssay

Just published:
"#Hurricane #risk assessment in a multi-hazard context for #Dominica in the #Caribbean"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47527-5
With Peter Sammonds, Akhtar Alam, Simon Day, and Katerina Stavrianaki.
 
#IslandStudies #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

"Small States and Access to Justice"
#London workshop on 15 November.
https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/events/20231115-small-states-and-access-to-justice

#IslandStudies #SmallStates #ClimateJustice #Justice #Law #ClimateLaw #ClimateChange #Climate

"The island as a political interstice"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102977
Just-published, free-to-download. #OpenAccess
 
#IslandStudies #PoliticalGeography #PoliticalScience #island #islands #islanders

"Islander Activisms and Resistances: Any Role for Resiliences and Vulnerabilities?"
https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687
Free to download from the "Okinawan Journal of Island Studies".

#IslandStudies #islands #islands #vulnerability #resilience #resistance #activism #PhotoEssay

"Understanding #islandness"
https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2193249
Led by Aideen Foley at #Birkbeck #Geography.

#IslandStudies #island #islands #islander #islanders #geographyteacher #teamgeography #teamgeog #geogchat