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

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

Filer, Colin

Paperback

Series: Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs, Book 18

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesEnvironmental Studies

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 1760466530
ISBN13: 9781760466534
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development because of scientific and anecdotal evidence of a common link between rapid population growth, degradation of the local resource base, and intensification of disputes over the ownership and use of terrestrial and marine resources. The authors are all anthropologists with a specific interest in the question of whether the economic and social 'safety valves' that have previously served to break some of the feedback loops between these trends appear to be losing their efficacy. While much of the debate about economy-society-environment relationships on small islands has been overtaken by a narrow focus on the problem of climate change, the authors show that there are many other factors at work in the transformation of island lives and livelihoods.

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