Vulnerability of the fisheries sector to climate change impacts in small island developing States and the Wider Caribbean : early findings

Abstract

The vulnerability assessment carried out by Allison et al. (2009) was the first global analysis to provide an indicator-based analysis of the relative vulnerabilities of 132 countries to climate change impacts on fisheries. That study, however, scarcely includes SIDS and Wider Caribbean countries as they were considered by the authors to be „data-deficient countries‟ (Allison et al, 2009: 183). This study followed the framework of the vulnerability assessment by Allison et al. (2009) with the most recent data and has broadened the analysis to include nearly all coastal states in the world including all, except one, Small-Island Developing States and Wider Caribbean Region countries. It assesses the outcome and relevance of this vulnerability assessment for SIDS and Wider Caribbean countries and discusses possible new ways of integrating the advances in the field of national level vulnerability studies that have been made since the previous assessment.