Building Climate Resilience Through Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Vanuatu
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Building Climate Resilience Through Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Vanuatu
Participants: Hoon Chang
(KEI), UNEP, KEITI (Korea Environmental Industry Technology Institute)
Period: 1 Dec. 2016 - 31
May 2017
Deion:
To
address the challenges Vanuatu is facing, this project proposes to focus on
ecosystems and the services they provide at landscape level as a functioning
unit. Goods and services provided by functioning ecosystems can provide poor
communities with important livelihood options to cope with economic stresses
and buffer them against natural hazards. Ecosystems ？ including
wetlands, agricultural land, coastal and marine habitats (e.g. mangroves, coral
reefs and sea grasses) and woodlands ？ provide a range of important services
that support communities, such as provisioning services i.e. food products,
fiber, fuel, freshwater, medicine etc., as well as regulatory functions i.e.
CO2 sequestration, water purification, regulating water flow, reducing impacts
of natural hazard, controlling erosion etc. In addition ecosystems provide
protective, recreational, and cultural benefits.
The
project will be designed to increase resilience of vulnerable and marginalized communities
through the application of ecosystem-based interventions and/or combining
ecosystem-based adaptation interventions with gray-green and hard
infrastructure. These interventions will
be underpinned by strengthening the institutional policy framework on
adaptation as well as capacity building at local and island level.