Inform: Helping to strengthen governance and decision making by improving environmental data management and use across the Pacific region.
Thisstudy provided the repeatable analysis framework to estimate the coastal population by utilizing the best available global and national datasets in Pacific (poor data environment).
Freedom of information laws could arguably be based on five fundamental principles – namely:
1. the principle of maximum disclosure
2. the principle of openness
3. the principle of limited exemptions
4. the principle of access
5. the principle of fairness and equity
This guide was written for governments, community groups and NGOs to address coastal protection issues through ecosystem based adaptation interventions. The work was developed as a partnership between SPREP and the University of Tasmania with funding from Australian Aid and the participation of the governments of Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga.
Pacific Women in Geospatial Magazine, November 25, 2019, Volume 1, Issue 1.
Fauna & Flora International (FFI). 2020. An Assessment of the Risks and Impacts of Seabed Mining on
Marine Ecosystems. FFI: Cambridge U.K. Available from: www.fauna-flora.org
Minter T, Orirana G, Boso D and van der Ploeg J. 2018. From happy hour to hungry hour: Logging, fisheries and food security in Malaita, Solomon Islands. Penang, Malaysia: WorldFish. Program Report: 2018-07.
Dunstan et al. 2018. Bioregions of the South West Pacific Ocean. CSIRO, Australia.
Map of the protected areas for the Pacific Islands Region with regional-level summary statistics on the amount of area under protection, count for each type of protected area (terrestrial or marine), and the count of their designation.
'achieving the sustainable use of deep-sea minerals for the use of humankind'
This document contains the metadata for the GEBCO Gridded Bathymetric Data 2020 dataset. GEBCO’s gridded bathymetric data set, the GEBCO_2020 grid, is a global terrain model for ocean and land at 15 arc-second intervals. It is accompanied by a Type Identifier (TID) Grid that gives information on the types of source data that the GEBCO_2020 Grid is based.
If the data sets are used in a presentation or publication then we ask that you acknowledge the source.This should be of the form: GEBCO Compilation Group (2020) GEBCO 2020 Grid (doi:10.5285/a29c5465-b138-234d-e053-6c86abc040b9)
This document contains the terms of use for the GEBCO Gridded Bathymetric Data 2020 dataset. GEBCO’s gridded bathymetric data set, the GEBCO_2020 grid, is a global terrain model for ocean and land at 15 arc-second intervals. It is accompanied by a Type Identifier (TID) Grid that gives information on the types of source data that the GEBCO_2020 Grid is based.
Document giving detailed metadata for the Global Distribution of Seamounts and Knolls dataset.
Metadata for the Global Mangrove Watch dataset.
Metdadata file containing the global distribution of hydrothermal vent fields in WGS84 coordinate system.
Within the Declaration there are five key areas under which there are different action tracks, these are actions that governments and environmental organisations recognise, endorse and are committed to implementing.
These five key areas are:
1. Our Ocean.
2. Our Islands.
3. Our Connection with Nature.
4. Implementation.
5. Call to Action.