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Table 5. Policies that affect the ability to cope with climate change
Policy area Policies that take climate
change into account
Housing
Tourism
Energy
Transport
Food Security
Water Supply
Infrastructure
Building on higher ground
Using natural ventilation to cool
buildings
Encouraging the use of smallscale
renewable energy, e.g.,
small wind turbines and solar
water heaters
Encouraging longer stay visitors
Promoting eco-tourism through
investment in preservation of
buffering ecosystems
Supporting individual use of
solar panels and solar water
heaters
Promoting low-energy forms of
transport, e.g., cycling, shared
cars, hybrid cars, energy efficient
cars
Developing public transportation
Promoting and supporting local
production of agricultural goods
Water conservation
Ensuring roads have
runoff/drainage systems
� Resource inventories.
� Economic valuations of the impacts of
climate change scenarios on economic
sectors (tourism, fisheries, agriculture).
� Capturing traditional knowledge from
communities and key natural resource
user groups, such as farmers and
fishers.
� Weather hazard audit for infrastructure.
Policies that ignore climate
change risks
Building in low-lying or easily
flooded areas
Using air-conditioning
Encouraging visitors to the island
on short stays/weekend breaks.
Promoting eco-tourism through
the exploitation of natural
resources
Preventing use of solar panels or
solar water heaters
Encouraging use of large energyintensive
vehicles, e.g., Hummers,
SUVs
Increasing reliance on foods
imported from overseas
Water over-use
Roads that do not have
runoff/drainage systems
Source: Tompkins et al, 2005
Monitoring and management
� Watershed management.
� Integration of climate change consideration
into day-to-day management of all
sectors.
� Water quality monitoring of fresh,
saline and hyper-saline waters to track
the vulnerability to sea level rise.
� Integrated coastal zone management.