The new guidelines, “Indicators to address community-level social vulnerability” are meant to be an addendum to the existing regional SocMon/SEM-Pasifika guidelines. These indicators can be included in a socioeconomic assessment of any site for which climate change impacts are an important issue. The resulting information can then inform coastal management needs and adaptive management. Funding for this publication was provided by the Secretariat for the Pacific Environment Programme through the Coral Reef InitiativeS for the Pacific (CRISP) and IUCN. In-kind support was provided by The Nature Conservancy and the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. The authors wish to emphasize that this represents a first draft for public circulation and field testing and look forward to receiving suggestions for improvement from our partners in the field.
The document is available for download at www.socmon.org.