James Lewis
Datum International
James Lewis RIBA

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email: JLewis@datum-international.eu

 

ISLAND STATES AND TERRITORIES

Publications
 

Island States & Territories

2009 Perfidy in paradise ? Islands' exogenous appropriation and indigenous maladministration
Some recent and continuing reported cases
http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/lewis2009livelihoods.pdf
2009 An Island Characteristic: Derivative vulnerabilities to indigenous
and exogenous hazards.

Shima 3/1
http://www.shimajournal.org/issues/v3n1/d.%20Lewis%20Shima%20v3n1%203-15.pdf
2008 European Islands:
Permanently populated Regions, Territories, Provinces, Colonies & Dependencies http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/lewiseuropeanislands.pdf
2007 Climate Change and Human Security - a reply from James Lewis
http://www.radixonline.org/cchs-replv from lewis.html
2006 Volcanic and other vicissitudes: The deep-sea port of Rabaul
RADIX http://www.radixonline.org/latest.htm , October
2005 Ecology and Vulnerability: Islands and sustainable risk management
Kelman, Ilan & Lewis, James
INSULA International Journal of Island Affairs
Dosier: Resiliance and vulnerability
Year 14 No 2 pp5-12 December
INSULA/UNESCO, Paris
2003 Pieces of the continent: An island anthology
August http://www.islandvulnerability.org/anthology.html
2000 The UK Overseas Territories and natural disaster occurrence  http://www.islandvulnerability.org/otuk.html#overview , August
1997
PDF Three Caribbean Volcanoes: Island history, geography and vulnerability
Stop Disasters 32/11
IDNDR Secretariat Geneva
1997 Volcanic eruption on Montserrat:
Perspectives on risk-management and vulnerability

(mimeo)
1994 Volcanoes and War in Papua New Guinea
Stop Disasters
No 21 p20
IDNDR Secretariat Geneva September/October
1991 REPORT School Design and hazard resistance, construction training and curriculum infusion: Preliminary Field Mission for a Caribbean Subreqional Project Framework
(Antigua & Barbuda; Jamaica; St Christopher & Nevis; St Vincent & The Grenadines) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Paris
Datum International
1991 PDF Tropical Cyclones and Island States
Shelter, Settlements, Policy and the Poor pp39-44
ITDG London
1990 REPORT The Economic Conseguences of Natural Disasters: With special reference to Small island states
The Commonwealth Secretariat, London
Datum International
1990 PDF REPORT Small States Conference on Sea Level Rise (Male, Maldives 1989)
Disasters 14/3 pp77-78
Environmentalist 10/2 pp141-142
1990 PDF The Vulnerability of Small Island States to Sea Level Rise:
The Need for Holistic Strategies
Disasters 14/3 pp241 -248 Blackwell
1989 Resource document for Climate Change: Meeting the Challenge
Commonwealth Secretariat, London
1989 PDF Sea Level Rise - some implications for Tuvalu
Ambio 18/8 pp458-459 1989
Appropriate Technology 16/2 pp26-28 September
The Environmetalist 9/4 pp269-275
1988 PDF REPORT Sea Level Rise: Tonga, Tuvalu (& Kiribati) Field Mission for the Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Datum International
1988 REPORT The Implications of Sea Level Rise for Island and Low-lying Countries
Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Datum International
1987 PDF Cook Islands Cyclone
AODRO Newsletter 5/1 April
Australian Overseas Disaster Response Organisation
1984 Disaster Mitigation Planning: Some lessons from island countries
Occasional Paper
Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath
1983 REPORT The Disaster Preparedness Strategies Seminar: Pacific Islands Development Programme: East-West Centre, Hawaii & the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC) Suva, Fiji   Report to the Commonwealth Foundation
Datum International
1983 REPORT The Kingdom of Tonga: Project Identification and Human Settlement Planning Strategy for Natural Disaster Mitigation: The Long-term Implications of Hurricane Isaac (March 1982) United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS), Nairobi Mission Report
Datum International
1982 REPORT The Social and Economic Effects of Natural Disasters on Least-developed Island Countries: With special reference to Cape Verde Islands: Comoro Islands; Maldive Islands: Western Samoa: and Antigua
Archive research: Geneva, Lisbon, London and Paris
Report to UNCTAD VI, UNDRO/UNCTAD, Geneva
Datum International
1984 PDF Multi-hazard history of Antigua
Disasters 8/3 pp190-197 
Pergamon
1984
Vulnerability to a cyclone: Damage distribution in Sri Lanka
Ekistiks: the problem and science of human settlements
Special issue on natural hazards and
Human Settlements Disasters 1
51/308 pp421-431 September/October 
Athens 
1982 Cyclone destruction in Sri Lanka: Some socio-economic analysis
Disaster Management 2/3 pp137-148 July-September
1981
The Sri Lanka Cyclone 1978: Socio-economic analysis of housing destruction
Marga 6/2 pp1-33
Marga Institute Colombo
1981
Some perspectives on natural disaster vulnerability in Tonga
Pacific Viewpoint 22/2 pp145-162 September 
Victoria University of Wellington
1980
Hurricane Damage
Correspondence
Nature 287 October 
Macmillan Journals London
1979
PDF Volcano in Tonga
Journal of Administration Overseas XVIII/2 pp83-121 April 
ODA/HMSO London
1978 REPORT Mitigation and Preparedness for Natural Disaster in the Kinadom of Tonga
The Government of Tonga / Overseas Development Administration (ODA) Nuku'alofa
PDF Report Summary
1976 REPORT A Report to Establish Guidelines for the Management of a Fund to Provide Insurance for Natural Disaster
South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation / Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (SPEC / Commonwealth Secretariat)
Mission: Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Western Samoa. Suva, Fiji. Commonwealth Secretariat
1977 Disaster preparedness in the South Pacific
South Pacific Bulletin First Quarter pp14-20
1975 REPORT A Study in Predisaster Planning The Report of a Field Study undertaken throughout the Bahama Islands (with Phil O'Keefe & Ken Westgate) Report to the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva
Occasional Paper No 10 Disaster Research Unit, University of Bradford

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