Ecosystem-based adaptation in three Pacific island countries
Ecosystem and Socio-economic Resilience Analysis and Mapping (ESRAM) is a component of the Pacific Ecosystem Based Adaptation to Climate Change Program; a five year project funded by the German Government, implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme to explore and promote ecosystem-based options for adapting to climate change. The project aims to help integrate Ecosystem-based Adaptation into development, climate change adaptation and natural resource management policy and planning processes in three Pacific island countries providing replicable models for other countries in the region.
RELEASE OF REPORT - VANUATU
In 2018 the Griffith University team released it's report - Vanuatu - Ecosystem and Socio-economic Resilience Analysis and Mapping.
The Report contains a national-level assessment of Vanuatu’s social-ecological systems in the context of building resilience to climate change. It includes outcomes of the ESRAM conducted of Tanna island. The Report contains:
1. a mapping of key ecosystems for Vanuatu and Tanna in terms of their type, condition and the ecosystem services they potentially generate
2. an economic evaluation of the benefits to local communities arising from these ecosystem services
3. an assessment of the risk to community sustainability from threats and pressures to ecosystem health, including climate change related hazards, for three of the most important ecosystem/land use types: coral reefs, kastom forest, and subsistence gardens.
Read the Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation Climate Change - Newsletter, April to July 2018
Read the Pacific Ecosystem-based Adaptation Climate Change - Newsletter, July to December 2017
ESRAM - Marine surveys, November 2016
As part of the Ecosystem & Socio-economic Resilience Analysis and Mapping (ESRAM) project being conducted by the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, the researchers undertook marine surveys off Tanna Island, Vanuatu.