Climate change, vulnerability and well-being in the Pacific region

Abstract

The Pacific region has experienced vast adverse effects from climate change impacting the peoples’ livelihoods both in these nations’ urban and rural areas. Countries association between socio-economic performance and livelihoods have been adversity impacted by climatic hazards and vulnerabilities on nations’ economic performance impacting the societal outcomes. An assessment of the Pacific’s climate change, vulnerability and well-being is presented in general and a case study of Fiji in particular. The Pacific islands require resources invested in environmental education, and climate change and trade policy linkages to benefit the islands, future returns to individuals and higher levels of satisfied basic needs to reduce vulnerabilities.

KEYWORDS:

• Climate change
• vulnerability
• wellbeing
• Pacific
• Fiji

JEL CODES:

• D62
• E60
• O56
• Q54

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

A dataset is not released due to the confidentially of the household data from the provider.