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Record Nr.

UNINA9910872179803321

Autore

Filer Colin

Titolo

Small Islands in Peril? : Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781760466541

1760466549

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs

Altri autori (Persone)

COLIN FILER

Disciplina

330.995

Soggetti

Environmental impact analysis

Islands of the Pacific

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development.