Disaster Risk Governance for Pacific Island Communities.

This is the first article in a three-part special issue on "Pacific Islands, Extreme Environments" edited by Andrea E. Murray. Kelman explores case studies from particularly vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including Samoa, Tonga, and the Solomon Islands, to articulate a new theory of disaster risk governance that accounts for the disproportionate climate change-related consequences suffered by these low-lying island countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]