A systematic review of community-based volcanic risk reduction and adaptation to the compound and cascading impacts of climate change in volcanic SIDS

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This systematic literature review examined approaches to community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) and community-based adaptation (CBA) in response to both volcanic hazards and climate change in small island developing states (SIDS). There is a dearth of research on this topic in the existing literature. The SCOPUS, Web of Science and SpringerLink databases were searched using the PRISMA 2020 method. The review yielded 50 relevant articles out of the initial 14,652. Several papers focused directly on either community approaches to disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate change adaptation (CCA), showing that there is still room for addressing these issues jointly. Additionally, key themes were the role of indigenous and local knowledge, culture, religion and the importance of social capital in the implementation of CBDRR and CBA. Case studies of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica were also included in the paper. A key finding of the review and the case studies was that CBDRR and CBA approaches can be combined in order to avoid the duplication of efforts and resources, especially important in the context of SIDS, where these resources are often scarce and research rarely assesses the compound impacts of climatic and non-climatic events.