Assessing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change on the Islands of Samoa

Fakhruddin, S. H. M.; Babel, M. S.; Kawasaki, A.

doi:10.5194/nhess-15-1343-2015

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Assessing the vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change on the Islands of Samoa

S. H. M. Fakhruddin, M. S. Babel, and A. Kawasaki

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Short summary

This paper identifies key infrastructure and their functions and status to provide an overall picture of relative vulnerability to climate-related stresses on infrastructures in Samoa. An indicator-based vulnerability model (SIVM) was developed to assess two major issues a) criticality of a given infrastructure, viewed differently among different stakeholders, and b) stakeholders, the best available source, could estimate the capacity to repair non-physical damage to such infrastructure.