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Filer Colin |
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Titolo |
Small Islands in Peril? : Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia |
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Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Collana |
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Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental impact analysis |
Islands of the Pacific |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of Tables -- Table 2.1: Distribution of populated islands between regions of PNG -- Table 2.2: Distribution of small islands and islanders between coastal regions of PNG in 2000 -- Table 2.3: Remoteness of small islands from bigger islands or the mainland -- Table 2.4: Population of very small and remote (or far-flung) islands in 2000 -- Table 2.5: Numbers of rural villagers counted as living on small islands in 2000 -- Table 2.6: Percentage of villagers absent from 241 small islands containing rural villages in 1979 -- Table 2.7: Village population growth rates on small islands with rural villages, 1980–2000 -- Table 3.1: Bwanabwana islands recorded in the 2000 national census -- Table 3.2: Growth of the Bwanabwana island population, 1980–2011 -- Table 3.3: Absentees in the Bwanabwana island population, 1979–1980 -- Table 3.4: Primary source of income before and after the moratorium -- Table 3.5: Reasons why people disagreed or agreed with the moratorium -- Table 3.6: Outstanding school fee payments for 2009 at Tubetube primary school -- Table 6.1: Rural village population density in 1980 -- Table 6.2: Percentage of households consuming different food crops on previous day in 1982 -- Table 6.3: Sources of household income from own agricultural production in 1980 -- Table 6.4: Rural village populations in 1958 and 1980 -- Table 6.5: Lihirian rural village populations on the four |
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islands in 1980 and 2014 -- Table 6.6: Lihirian rural village populations in two parts of Aniolam in 1980 and 2014 -- List of Figures -- Figure 2.1: Provinces of Papua New Guinea -- Figure 3.1: Initial conceptual framework for the Milne Bay SMIP Program -- Figure 3.2: Map of the Bwanabwana region -- Figure 3.3: Assortment of bêche-de-mer on Koyagaugau Island, 2005 -- Figure 3.4: Decoration of clay pot on Ware Island, 2005 -- Figure 3.5: Sailau undergoing renovation on Tubetube Island, 2005 -- Figure 3.6: ‘Blue boat’ moored at Kavieng Wharf, 2017 -- Figure 4.1: Map of Marovo Lagoon showing districts and a selection of main villages -- Figure 4.2: Tusu Marovo and its associated lagoon and barrier reef from the air, facing due north from above the Vangunu mainland, 2010 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development. |
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