拉丁美洲经济委员会：2024年对加勒比小岛屿发展中国家城市扩张的评估报告-牙买加和特立尼达和多巴哥的案例（英文版）

The disproportionate increase in urbanized areas in relation to populations resulting in the spread of low-density urban settlements is recognized as a sustainable development challenge globally, including in Caribbean SIDS. This phenomenon has numerous adverse effects on urban settlements’ capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change, such as the increased vulnerability of critical infrastructure to climate disasters; the formation of informal settlements in risk-prone areas; an increa