The Caribbean region suffers major economic losses from natural hazards such as flooding due to storms, cyclones, extreme waves, winds and precipitation, coastal erosion, volcanic eruptions and landslides. Consequently, as typical at most small coastal states, when a disaster strikes, a large...

The Caribbean region suffers major economic losses from natural hazards such as flooding due to storms, cyclones, extreme waves, winds and precipitation, coastal erosion, volcanic eruptions and landslides. Consequently, as typical at most small coastal states, when a disaster strikes, a large...

Climate change may cause socio-economic tipping points (SETPs), where the state of a socio-economic system abruptly changes to a fundamentally different state. While the potential existence of SETPs is recognized, a systematic method to identify and prepare for SETPs is lacking. This study...