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Evaluation of storm surge risk: A case study from Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Climate Change Resilience

de Scally, Fes A.

2013
This study reports on a preliminary assessment of storm surge risk from tropical cyclones at Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Analysis of a 175 year record of cyclones from the Cook Islands indicates minimum annual probabilities of 16% for storm surges and 5% for major storm surge impacts at Rarotonga. Storm surges have historically inundated areas of the coastal lowland where virtually all human activities and infrastructure are currently located. The impacts of such events have been particularly severe in the Cook Islands' capital of Avarua and adjacent communities on the north coast of Rarotonga. Detailed infrastructure mapping combined with analysis of historic storm surge impacts and cyclones tracks in the vicinity of Rarotonga indicates that the storm surge risk is greatest along the north coast where the majority of the Cook Islands' government functions and commercials, industrial, transportation and communication infrastructure is located. Damage to this infrastructure at the shoreline can have serious repercussions throughout the Cook Islands. Any efforts to increase the country's resilience to such impacts must be undertaken within the larger goal of adaptation to future climate changes and rising sea levels. The greatest risk presently to human life arises from many cyclone safety centres in locations where they are exposed to storm surges or flooding. A top priority should be relocation of these shelters to safer locations further inland so that they can provide suitable shelter from storm surges and flooding as well as tsunamis, taking into account other hazards presented by Rarotonga's rugged topography.
Mitiaro Sandflies - Survey Report
BRB
Available Online
2013
Survey information and notes on Mitiaro Sandflies in the Cook Islands.
Warning Sign - Warning Poison. Rat Eradication In Progress
BRB
Available Online
2013
Rat eradication warning sign
National Environment Week and Fruit fly eradication begins
BRB
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Cook Islands News

2013
News article on national environment week and eradication of the fruit fly.
Climate Change Cook Islands Bibliography
Climate Change Resilience, Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online

Climate Change Cook Islands 2013

2013
Cook Islands Marine Park - Coral reef survey of Aitutaki, Manuae, Mitiaro, Takutea and Atiu in the southern Cook Islands
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Rongo, T., Evans, J., Passfield, K., Cramp, J., Sudek, M., Tautu, B., McDonald, G., Rongo, T.C. & Hanchard, B.

2013
Cook Islands: Climate and Disaster Compatible Development Policy 2013-2016
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Government of Cook Islands/UNDP/Adaptation Fund

2013
A policy to guide climate change and disaster management development in the Cook Islands
Weed biocontrol scoping study in the Cook Islands
BRB
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Paynter. Q.

2012
Invasive plants seriously threaten native habitats throughout the Pacific region, including the Cook Islands, where numerous invasive weed species of agricultural concern are also present. Invasive species are a growing problem in the Pacific as global trade, travel and tourism bring increasing numbers of invasive species incursions, and troublesome species that are already present begin to naturalise and move out of lag phases. The number of weed (or potential weed) species present in the Cook Islands is already very large: according to the Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, some 333 naturalised flowering plants, gymnosperms and fern species already outnumber those species that are native to the Cook Islands (287 species).
Climate change profile : Cook islands
Climate Change Resilience
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Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)

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Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)

2012
This climate change profile for Cook Islands has been prepared as part of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Global Climate Change Alliance: Pacific Small Islands States (GCCA: PSIS) project. The goal of the GCCA: PSIS project is to support the governments of nine small Pacific Island states, namely Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Tonga and Tuvalu, in their efforts to tackle the adverse effects of climate change. The purpose of the project is to promote long-term strategies and approaches to adaptation planning, and pave the way for more effective and coordinated aid delivery on climate change, including the delivery of streamlined adaptation finance, at the national and regional level.
Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project 3rd Multipartite Review Meeting 2012; UNDP, SPREP, AusAID, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Nauru, Niue, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Gender Assessment, Mid Term Review
Climate Change Resilience
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PACC

2012
PACC reports

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