Supporting a Resilience Observatory to Climate Risks in French Polynesia: From Valorization of Preexisting Data to Low-Cost Data Acquisition

Climate change has an ever-increasing impact on island territories. Whether it is due to rising sea levels or the increase in recurrence and intensity of extreme events, island territories are increasingly vulnerable. These impacts are expected to affect marine and terrestrial biodiversity, human oc...

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Published in:Water (Basel) 2022-02, Vol.14 (3), p.359
Main Authors: Jessin, Jérémy, Heinzlef, Charlotte, Long, Nathalie, Serre, Damien
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural economics
Biodiversity
Case studies
Climate change
Climate models
Cyclones
Data acquisition
Decision making
Environmental Sciences
Floods
Geography
Global Changes
Humanities and Social Sciences
Infrastructure
Observatories
Research projects
Resilience
Sea level
Sea level rise
Storm damage
Terrestrial environments
Territory
Tourism
Tsunamis
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Summary:Climate change has an ever-increasing impact on island territories. Whether it is due to rising sea levels or the increase in recurrence and intensity of extreme events, island territories are increasingly vulnerable. These impacts are expected to affect marine and terrestrial biodiversity, human occupation (infrastructure) and other activities such as agriculture and tourism, the two economic pillars of French Polynesia. While the current and future impacts of climate change on island territories are generally accepted, data acquisition, modeling, and projections of climate change are more complex to obtain and limitedly cover the island territories of the Pacific region. This article aims to develop methodologies for the acquisition and exploitation of data on current and future climate risks and their impacts in French Polynesia. This work of acquisition and valorization is part of a research project for the development of an observatory of resilience to climate risks in the perspective of building a spatial decision support system.
ISSN:2073-4441
2073-4441
DOI:10.3390/w14030359