- managed retreat
- diaspora
- internal migration
- international migration
- displacement
- climate refugee
- remittance
- resettlement
- resilience
- mitigation
- solastalgia
Acronyms - SIDS (small island development states)
- UNHR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
- IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
- IOM (UN International Organization for Migration)
- UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
- COP (Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC)
- COFA (Compact of Free Association)
- CANN (COFA Alliance National Network)
- FSM (Federated States of Micronesia, includes Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk, Yap)
- FAS (Freely Associated States, includes FSM, Palau, Marshall Islands)
- APANO (Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon)
- IRCO (Immigrant Refugee Community Organization)
- MIC (Micronesian Islander Community)
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Program)
- UNDP (United Nations Development Program)
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
- UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
| - Island types (coralline, granitic, limestone, atoll, volcanic)
- atoll
- (freshwater) lens
- aquifer
- barrier reef, coral reef
- mangrove
- hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons (know the difference)
- king tide
- storm surge
- albedo (light or energy reflected back into the atmosphere)
- archipelago (group / chain of islands)
- glacier
- ice sheet
- sea ice
- tsunami
- deforestation
- desertification
- rapid onset (climatic) events
- slow onset events
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