... Implications of Climate Changeglobal economy, rates of population growth, and potable water provision. Recalculation of the formal model behind the VRIM was outside of the scope of our work. ... the “poster children” of climate change. The nations of the Pacific are representative of other islands, island territories of metropolitan powers, and to varying degrees, of archipelagic nations, ... a variety of sources, we identify the states most exposed to the impacts of climate change both in the short and long term. The next section introduces estimates of the resilience of these coun-tries,...