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Item The geomorphology of Baa (South Maalhosmadulu) atoll and its reef islands(School of Environment, The University of Auckland ސްކޫލް އޮފް އެންވަޔަރޮމެންޓް، ދަ ޔުނިވަރސިޓީ އޮފް އޮކްލޭންޑް, 2019) Kench, Paul S. ޕޯލް. އެސް. ކެންޗްItem Technical scope report : consultancy service for development of natural capital accounting with initiating pilot testing of the SEEA ecosystem accounting (SEEA EA) in Laamu atoll(Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, 2023-04-30) University of New South WalesItem Designing a GIS to meet real needs in the maldives(ASPRS the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, 2010-04-26) Mohamed Shafee; Dr. Kevin Lim; Dr. Robert Ryerson; Mr. Ihsan Sadiq; Ahmed RasheedThe Government of the Republic of Maldives has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Maldives Environmental Management Project, part of which was to develop a National Geographic Information System (NGIS) Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan. The development objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity for environmental management in the Maldives, by addressing some of the human resource constraints and informational impediments to improved environmental management. This paper presents the approaches used to overcome the many hurdles that were faced to develop the Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan. While the many challenges of designing an enterprise GIS to meet the real needs of small-island nations have been reviewed in previous papers, this project faced additional issues. To the challenges of dealing with national as well as local issues and operating with limited budgets, the situation in the Maldives was further complicated by a general lack of expertise in GIS, limited education in the field, virtually no existing system capability in the field, and a user community that generally lacked practical experience. This paper describes how all of these countervailing forces were seamlessly managed by the team so that the solution was made by and for the citizens of the Maldives. The description of the approaches used to develop the solution forms a useful guide to the development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure in the development context.Item Integrating clean energy in small island power systems : Maldives experience(Energy Procedia, 2016-04) Wijayatunga Priyantha; ވިޖަޔަތުންގާ ޕުރިއަންތާ; George Len; ލެން ޖޯޖް; Lopez Antonio; އެންޓޯނިއޯ ލޮޕެޒް; Aguado Jose A.; ޖޯސް އޭ. އަގުއަޑޯProviding affordable, reliable clean electricity supplies is a major challenge small island nations face due to factors such as dispersed nature of their population in small individual islands, heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels for power generation and absence of economy of scale. The paper discusses the design of hybrid diesel-solar photovoltaic systems with energy storage with a sample involving five islands in Maldives. The study has shown that implementation of diesel-solar PV hybrid power generation systems with storage in small island countries increase energy security and they are economically and environmentally attractiveItem Confronting a rising tide : a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees(2009) Docherty, Bonnie; Giannini, Tyler; ބޮނީ ޑޮކަރޓީ; ޓައިލާ ޖިއައްނިނީItem Drowning in rising seas : navigating multiple knowledge systems and responding to climate change in the Maldives(Pitzer College, 2017-04) Spiegel, Rachel H.; ރޭޗަލް އެޗް. ސްޕީގެލްThe threat of global climate change increasingly influences the actions of human society. As world leaders have negotiated adaptation strategies over the past couple of decades, a certain discourse has emerged that privileges Western conceptions of environmental degradation. I argue that this framing of climate change inhibits the successful implementation of adaptation strategies. This thesis focuses on a case study of the Maldives, an island nation deemed one of the most vulnerable locations to the impacts of rising sea levels. I apply a postcolonial theoretical framework to examine how differing knowledge systems can both complement and contradict one another. By analyzing government-enforced relocation policies in the Maldives, I find that points of contradiction between Western and indigenous environmental epistemologies can create opportunities to bridge the gap between isolated viewpoints and serve as moments to resist the dominant climate change discourse.Item The Maldives’ 2009 carbon audit(Ministry of Housing and Environment of the Maldives, 2010-11-23) Flora, Bernard; Thibault, Ben Khelil; Vincent, Pichon; Léo, TissotIn March 2010, the Government of Maldives mandated La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild and BeCitizen, a Paris (France)-based strategic environmental consultancy to take forward the country’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2020. Between July and October 2010, BeCitizen carried out the first step of this work, a Carbon Audit which covered the Maldives’ 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, projections for 2020 and priority areas to be addressed in order to reach carbon neutrality.Item Item Maldives : Environment Assessment(Asia Development Bank, 2007-09) Asia Development Bank; އޭޝިޔާ ޑިވެލޮޕްމެންޓް ބޭންކްItem Techical report mapping deliverables(Ministry of Envornment, Climate Change and Technoloy, 2023-10-02) Ministry of Envornment, Climate Change and Technoloy; މިނިސްޓްރީ އޮފް އެންވައިރަމަންޓް، ކުލައިމެޓް ޗޭންޖް އެންޑް ޓެކްނޮލޮޖީ