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Author : Jon Barnett
Release : 2003
Genre : Economic development
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Book Synopsis Environment, Development and Security in Pacific Island Countries by : Jon Barnett
Download or read book Environment, Development and Security in Pacific Island Countries written by Jon Barnett. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antony Hooper
Release : 2005-04-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific by : Antony Hooper
Download or read book Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific written by Antony Hooper. This book was released on 2005-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the South Pacific, notions of ‘culture’ and ‘development’ are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with ‘economic rationality’, ‘good governance’ and ‘progress’ is set against culture or ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ and ‘identity’. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. Resolution is sought in this book by a number of leading writers from the South Pacific including Langi Kavaliku, Epeli Hau’ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Malama Meleisea, Joeli Veitayaki, and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. The volume is brought together for UNESCO by Antony Hooper, Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. UNESCO experts include Richard Engelhardt, Langi Kavaliku, Russell Marshall, Malama Meleisea, Edna Tait and Mali Voi.
Author : Gregory Votaw
Release : 1992
Genre : Economic development
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Book Synopsis Environment and Development by : Gregory Votaw
Download or read book Environment and Development written by Gregory Votaw. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Williams
Release : 2017-12-12
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific by : Marc Williams
Download or read book Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific written by Marc Williams. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a concise and innovative account of climate politics in the prevailing global context and one with implications for the study of climate security in other regions, particularly in the developing world.
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Release : 2020-03-03
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region by : Walter Leal Filho
Download or read book Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region written by Walter Leal Filho. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers written by scholars, practitioners, and members of social movements and government agencies pursuing research and/or climate change projects in the Pacific region. Climate change is impacting the Pacific in various ways, including numerous negative effects on the natural environment and biodiversity. As such, a better understanding of how climate change affects Pacific communities is required, in order to identify processes, methods, and tools that can help countries and the communities in the region to adapt and become more resilient. Further, the book showcases successful examples of how to cope with the social, economic, and political problems posed by climate change in the region.
