South Pacific Island Water Security Assignment 2022

Running head: SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS WATER SECURITY
South Pacific Islands Water Security
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Table of Contents
Key Words.................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................2
Australian South Pacific Islands............................................................................................3
Global Warming.....................................................................................................................4
Environmental sustainability..................................................................................................6
Research Gaps............................................................................................................................9
Research Intent.........................................................................................................................10
Research Questions..................................................................................................................10
Research Methodology.............................................................................................................11
Resources required...................................................................................................................13
Risk Assessment...................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................15

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Key Words
Following are the Keywords that have been used in in the current Project research paper;
i. Sustainability
ii. Water
iii. Ice-caps
iv. Climate
v. Security
vi. Global
vii. Islands
viii. Environment
ix. Warming
x. Sea-level
Literature Review
Climate change has taken the world by storm. Change in the general proceeding from
the part of man has developed various nature of relationships with the abiotic factors that
constitute the environment (Melillo, Richmond and Yohe 2014). It must be realised that it is
the health of the nature is vital for sustainability and wellbeing of the human race. The
activities such as deforestation, depletion of fuel and burning of the same, thus releasing
smoke and harmful gasses in the air depletes the quality of the environment as a whole and
hence contributes to climate change. The climate change that is taking place is leading to
increase of temperature within the atmosphere of the earth (Wordsworth and Pierrehumbert
2013). The latter is an activity that is known as global warming. The incidence of the latter
contributes to melting of the polar ice caps which in turn contributes to the rise of the global
sea level. While this condition poses threats to the sustainability of areas that are in the

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coastal areas, there are higher threats posed to smaller islands especially in the South Pacific
Regions near Australia. The aim of the following section is to cater to the development of
inferences regarding the scope of topics that are related to the study.
Australian South Pacific Islands
Apart from the main island or the continent as a whole, the country of Australia is
surrounded by numerous small-scale islands. The islands that specially fall in the South East
region are deemed to be in a geographical position that is vulnerable in nature. Furthermore,
these islands are similar in nature to the islands find in the ring of fire. Three adverse climatic
conditions pose threats to the sustainability of these islands. While many islands are
uninhibited, numerous islands are occupied by people. Due to the scenic beauty of the area
including the vivid oceans, corals and surfing these areas are highly popular. However, the
unfavourably harsh climatic conditions pose serious threats to the sustainability of these
islands and the people associated to it. There has been various Floods in various islands that
has resulted in great losses (Widlansky et al. 2013). These losses not only involve lots of
capital or assets, but on a diverse variety of aspects. In the recent past, it had been found that
several islands are now completely at the level of the sea. They harsh impact of the weather
has taken a toll on the economy. The governing bodies had to incur high expenses in terms of
rehabilitation of the people living in such areas. Even if there has been endless super from the
part of numerous international and domestic NGOs, the losses that have been experienced are
unsurmountable (Pratt and Harrison 2015). The has been losses in terms of people's houses,
cars and various personal property being slowly submerged under sea water. According to an
interviewee it was found that they incidents such as the same change the flow of things in
their life. The locals and small businesses in the areas have been the biggest sufferers. The
country has suggested a lot however the proportion of loss is nowhere near the loss that has
been suffered by the locals of the area and the small businesses. Insurance companies did not