Part Three / How it Affects Us

3.12 Sea-level Rise and Small Islands

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  1. much of the tourism in the Caribbean is beach-related Acevedo, S., N., et al., ‘Caribbean Tourism in the Global Marketplace: Trends, Drivers, and Challenges’, in Srinivasan, K., et al., eds., Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2017), 39–62, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484315194.071.

  2. damage equivalent to a quarter of the country’s GDP Zegarra, M. A., et al., Impact of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas: A View from the Sky, Inter-American Development Bank, January 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002163.

    up to 80 per cent … may be inundated Simpson, M. C., et al., Quantification and Magnitude of Losses and Damages Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change: Modelling the Transformational Impacts and Costs of Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme, December 2010, https://www.unep.org/resources/report/modelling-transformational-impacts-and-costs-sea-level-rise-caribbean.