The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI) aims to provide the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with disaster risk modeling and assessment tools. It also aims to engage in a dialogue with the PICs on integrated financial solutions for the reduction of their financial vulnerability to natural disasters and to climate change. The initiative is part of the broader agenda on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in the Pacific region.
An open access geospatial data repository for the Pacific Region providing premier geophysical, geodetic, and marine spatial data sets. Developed through collaboration between the GeoScience, Energy and Maritime Division of the Pacific Community (SPC), University of Sydney, Geoscience Australia (GA), and GRID-Arendal.
The study indicated that the sampling locations at an industrial site of Suva City is highly predominated with almost all of the studied metals and is a concern to the general public who live and work within the vicinity of Walu Bay industrial area.
At present in the Fiji Islands, no guidelines are available only for biological parameters for receiving water bodies commonly used for recreational activities. The ANZECC (2000) guidelines recommend the use of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enterococci (Faecal Coliforms) as indicator organisms for fecal contamination of fresh and marine recreational water. This study compiled results for 3 biological parameters, namely, Total Coliforms (TC), E. coli and Faecal Coliforms (FC) at 3 sites in Fiji, namely; My Suva park, Wailea settlement and Centre Point.
Pacific Network for Environmental Assessment
The SPREP ID map is a high resolution (1MB) that shows SPREP member countries with their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries developed by the GIS team at SPREP.
The SPREP ID map is low resolution (200KB) that shows SPREP member countries with their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries developed by the GIS team at SPREP.
The map is high resolution showing SPREP member countries' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries overlaid on a bathymetric base layer that was developed by the GIS team at SPREP.
The map is low resolution showing SPREP member countries' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries overlaid on a bathymetric base layer that was developed by the GIS team at SPREP.
By the end of this module, you should be able to have some basic understanding of
- What a GIS is?
- Understand the key components and functions of a GIS
- Understand how spatial data is represented in a GIS.
- Understand how data are stored and accessed to use in mapping
At the end of this module we hope that you will understand the
- steps of downloading and installing QGIS software on your computers?
- Be able to open up GGIS and familiarize yourself with the software interface and
- Know how to add both vector and raster data to QGIS
Learning Objectives
- Layout manager and Map Composer
- Basic Map Composition
- Loading Map Elements
- Exporting the Map
- Saving and Closing Project
A Private Data License Agreement available for use by PICs for their Environment Data Portals
A Shared Data License Agreement available for use by PICs for their Environment Data Portals
direct internet link to the Pacific Climate Change Portal
The assessment is structured in two related parts:
1. State, pressures and threats.
2. Response.