National Tourism Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Samoa 2012 – 2017. País/Territorio Samoa Tipo de documento Fecha 2012 Fuente FAO, FAOLEX Materia Medio ambiente gen., Alimentación y nutrición Palabra clave Negocios/industria/corporaciones Fortalecimiento de la capacidad Cambio climático Ordenación comunitaria Desastres Planificación ambiental Financiamiento Política/planificación Principio de cautela Evaluación/manejo de riesgos Desarrollo sostenible Turismo Seguridad alimentaria Área geográphica ASIA Y PACIFICO, Oceania, Polinesia, Pequeños estados insulares en desarrollo, Pacífico Sur Resumen The National Tourism Climate Change Adaptation Strategy is a national policy with a sectoral approach. The timeframe of this Strategy is 5 years between 2012 and 2017. The overall purpose of this Strategy is to achieve climate change adaptation in order to increase the resilience of tourism sector to the adverse impacts of climate change and natural disasters. Therefore, this Strategy lays down actions to increase the resilience and capacity of the tourism sector to adapt, respond, prepare and recover more quickly from the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, for the long-term economic, environmental, cultural and social development of Samoa. The key objectives of this Strategy are: (I) increased resilience of the tourism sector to climate change impacts through the implementation of immediate adaptation measures, (II) development of tourist facilities and infrastructure, including key resource supply such as food, water, electricity, (III) mainstreaming climate risks into tourism related policy instruments, (IV) strengthened human capacity to identify, analyse, implement, monitor and evaluate cost-effective mitigation and adaptation measures, (V) awareness-raising at the national, sector and community levels about the need to promote and support climate change adaptation measures, and (VI) development of sustainable financing mechanisms in support of tourism climate change adaptation actions nation-wide. Texto completo Inglés Página web www.samoatourism.org