Rapid Review of Water Knowledge for Pacific Small Islands Developing States
The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features in common, and which collectively make them unique to other regions of the world: Small island co...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/532991532957755291/Rapid-review-of-water-knowledge-for-Pacific-Small-Islands-developing-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30121 |
| Summary: | The rapid review confirms that Pacific
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially,
culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features
in common, and which collectively make them unique to other
regions of the world: Small island countries have uniquely
fragile water resources due to their small size, lack of
natural storage, competing land use, and vulnerability to
natural and anthropogenic hazards, including drought,
cyclones, and urban pollution (with between 0.5 percent to
6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) being lost
annually to disasters). Rurally dominated populations are
widely dispersed geographically as many small communities,
while most capital cities include significant informal
settlement populations and are subject to rapid urbanization
(a more than 3 percent yearly increase in urban population
growth in most Melanesian countries is projected between
2015 and 2020) (Mycoo and Donovan 2017). |
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