Two-thirds of the countries with significant disaster losses relative to gross domestic product (GDP) are Small Island Developing States (SIDS), averaging losses between 1 and 9% annually (Giardino et al., 2018)

The SIDS@RISK project was undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of 11, lead by Prof. David Sear, to develop datasets with the overall aim of providing information that is free to access and modify and at a resolution that enables identification of risk across a range of scales useful to different levels of risk and disaster risk management in the Pacific small islands.  Scientifically, the data has been generated to produce standardised information across all islands with the intention of facilitating; 

1. between island comparison of risk
2. fostering dialogue across national borders and building regional coherence based on shared risk experience
3. preserving and highlighting the diversity of risk experienced within SIDS and OST’s
4. simplifying the fundamental drivers of current and future risk via generation of risk typologies.

A online, free to access dashboard using the SIDS@RISK datasets were used to create a Risk Map for Tsunami inundation and flood risk, for the 2022 Hunga-Tonga-Haʻapai event to help support immediate disaster management. 

SIDS@RISK team at Southampton were funded by GCRF Facilitating funds and HEIF funding.