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TY - JOUR
T1 - Risks to future atoll habitability from climate-driven environmental changes
AU - Duvat, V.K.E.
AU - Magnan, A.K.
AU - Perry, C.T.
AU - Spencer, T.
AU - Bell, J.D.
AU - Wabnitz, C.
AU - Webb, A.P.
AU - White, I.
AU - McInnes, K.L.
AU - Gattuso, J.-P.
AU - Graham, N.A.J.
AU - Nunn, P.D.
AU - Le Cozannet, G.
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Duvat, VKE, Magnan, AK, Perry, CT, et al. Risks to future atoll habitability from climate-driven environmental changes. WIREs Clim Change. 2021; 12:e700. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.700 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.700 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2021/5/31
Y1 - 2021/5/31
N2 - Recent assessments of future risk to atoll habitability have focused on island erosion and submergence, and have overlooked the effects of other climate-related drivers, as well as differences between ocean basins and island types. Here we investigate the cumulative risk arising from multiple drivers (sea-level rise; changes in rainfall, ocean–atmosphere oscillations and tropical cyclone intensity; ocean warming and acidification) to five Habitability Pillars: Land, Freshwater supply, Food supply, Settlements and infrastructure, and Economic activities. Risk is assessed for urban and rural islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5, in 2050 and 2090, and considering a moderate adaptation scenario. Risks will be highest in the Western Pacific which will experience increased island destabilization together with a high threat to freshwater, and decreased land-based and marine food supply from reef-dependent fish and tuna and tuna-like resources. Risk accumulation will occur at a lower rate in the Central Pacific (lower pressure on land, with more limited cascading effects on other Habitability Pillars; increase in pelagic fish stocks) and the Central Indian Ocean (mostly experiencing increased land destabilization and reef degradation). Risk levels will vary significantly between urban islands, depending on geomorphology and local shoreline disturbances. Rural islands will experience less contrasting risk levels, but higher risks than urban islands in the second half of the century. This article is categorized under: Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews.
AB - Recent assessments of future risk to atoll habitability have focused on island erosion and submergence, and have overlooked the effects of other climate-related drivers, as well as differences between ocean basins and island types. Here we investigate the cumulative risk arising from multiple drivers (sea-level rise; changes in rainfall, ocean–atmosphere oscillations and tropical cyclone intensity; ocean warming and acidification) to five Habitability Pillars: Land, Freshwater supply, Food supply, Settlements and infrastructure, and Economic activities. Risk is assessed for urban and rural islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5, in 2050 and 2090, and considering a moderate adaptation scenario. Risks will be highest in the Western Pacific which will experience increased island destabilization together with a high threat to freshwater, and decreased land-based and marine food supply from reef-dependent fish and tuna and tuna-like resources. Risk accumulation will occur at a lower rate in the Central Pacific (lower pressure on land, with more limited cascading effects on other Habitability Pillars; increase in pelagic fish stocks) and the Central Indian Ocean (mostly experiencing increased land destabilization and reef degradation). Risk levels will vary significantly between urban islands, depending on geomorphology and local shoreline disturbances. Rural islands will experience less contrasting risk levels, but higher risks than urban islands in the second half of the century. This article is categorized under: Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews.
KW - atolls
KW - climate change impacts
KW - habitability
KW - Indian Ocean
KW - Pacific Ocean
KW - reef island
KW - Economics
KW - Fish
KW - Food supply
KW - Hurricanes
KW - Reefs
KW - Risk perception
KW - Sea level
KW - Storms
KW - Water
KW - Adaptation scenarios
KW - Cascading effects
KW - Disciplinary perspective
KW - Economic activities
KW - Environmental change
KW - Freshwater supply
KW - Reef degradation
KW - Tropical cyclone intensity
KW - Risk assessment
U2 - 10.1002/wcc.700
DO - 10.1002/wcc.700
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
JO - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
JF - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
SN - 1757-7780
IS - 3
M1 - e700
ER -