The Impacts of Climate Change on Bonaire
Small islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their fragile ecosystems, small economies, and often extensive, low-lying coastal areas. Therefore, small islands, such as present in the Caribbean Netherlands, are expected to suffer excessively from rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, sea-level rise, coral bleaching, cyclones, droughts and floods. Despite this widespread conviction, scientific evidence of these effects in the Caribbean Netherlands is scarce, and as a result, limited adaptation strategies are developed or implemented by local and Dutch governmen... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Buch |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/073b38e5-dc3a-49b9-945b-11bf0ff2a5d3 |