Flood displacement risk: Assessment for Fiji and Vanuatu in current and future climate scenarios

This report presents a first attempt to fill the information gap concerning the growing concentration of people and assets in low-lying urban coastal areas in Fiji and Vanuatu. It does so by estimating future riverine flood displacement risk at the national and sub-national level. It proposes a new methodology that provides a more comprehensive assessment of vulnerability in the context of disaster displacement risk.

As in many small island developing states (SIDSs), exposure to flood hazards in Fiji and Vanuatu is driven by the rapid expansion of blow-lying urban settlements. Disasters affect an increasing number of people in these areas, escalating harm to employment, housing and basic services such as education and healthcare.