Coastal Poverty and Vulnerability Dynamics

This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review explores poverty and vulnerability dynamics of coastal areas.

Coastal areas are typically densely populated, with high levels of social and economic activity, and distinct environmental challenges arising from climate change impacts, land degradation, and environmental pollution. Poor and remote coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and variability due to livelihood dependencies on natural resources, which are easily disrupted or subject to losses from hydrometeorological hazards, and vulnerable to the impacts of marine pollution.

Given the strong contextualisation of poverty and vulnerability dynamics, this rapid evidence review takes a country case study approach, reviewing examples of country specific regional drivers to understand emerging themes and research gaps for understanding and responding to the specific vulnerabilities facing coastal communities, to review examples of community roles played in local resource governance, and the impacts of non-extractive marine pollution.