Climatic change ; Colonialism ; International migration ; Island ; Melanesia ; Micronesia ; Natural resources ; Pacific Region ; Population growth
This article examines international migration in the pacific and argues that there should be still greater opportunities for the people of Pacific countries to migrate between their home states and the developed states of the Pacific Rim.
Pacific futures? Geography and change in the Pacific islands
Changement global ; Changement social ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Géographie politique ; Géopolitique ; Ile ; Pacifique ; Pression démographique ; Souveraineté
Environmental degradation ; Geopolitics ; Global change ; Island ; Pacific Region ; Political geography ; Population pressure ; Social change ; Sovereignty
Revising ideas about environmental determinism : human-environment relations in the Pacific Islands
Changement global ; Culturel ; Environnement ; Ile ; Impact ; Niveau marin ; Pacifique ; Relation homme-environnement ; Société ; Variation climatique
Climatic variation ; Cultural studies ; Environment ; Global change ; Impact ; Island ; Man-environment relations ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Society
Environmental changes had severe and lasting impacts on Pacific Island societies, largely associated with a massive reduction in the food resource base on some islands. It is clear that environmental change is a major cause of last-millenium
cultural transformation in the Pacific Islands, a conclusion which is likely to apply elsewhere.
Agricultural productivity ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Forecast ; Global change ; Inundation ; Island ; Land tenure system ; Migration ; Model ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Security
This paper examines the links between climate change and security in the island states of the South-west Pacific. A worst-case scenario of climate change is presented which suggests that land will be lost or rendered uninhabitable in all Pacific
states of the South-west Pacific. Clearly, climate change is an important threat to human security.
Critical geopolitics ; Diplomacy ; International relations ; Island ; Microstate ; Pacific Region ; United Nations
and bring new knowledge to an unexplored area. The institutional capacities of Pacific small island states hinder their ability to voice their concerns adequately.
The end of the Pacific ? Effects of sea level rise on Pacific Island livelihoods
Adaptation ; Changement climatique ; Changement environnemental ; Durabilité ; Ile ; Littoral ; Moyens d'existence ; Niveau marin ; Pacifique ; Société
Adaptation ; Climatic change ; Coastal environment ; Environmental change ; Island ; Livelihood ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Society ; Sustainability
culturel. Il convient de trouver des systèmes de production alimentaire alternatifs. Des sites actuels de peuplement vont devenir obsolètes, et il convient de l'anticiper à temps, ainsi que tous les changements irréversibles.
(1960-1980) ; Capitalisme ; Changement social ; Commerce international ; Dépendance ; Développement ; Economie dominée ; Géographie de l'Océanie ; Géographie politique ; Ile ; Indépendance ; Inégalité sociale ; Isolement ; Pacifique Sud ; Pacifique
Since the 1960's most island groups of the South Pacific have achieved Independence and many new nations have been established. Secession movements in many areas have resulted in fragmentation producing the break-up of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
and the disintegration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The distinctive characteristics of the Pacific nations: their small size, and limited natural resources, their isolation from each other and from markets and fragmentation within multiple island
countries. The extension of outside interests into the Pacific has brought rapid economic changes, the emergence of cash cropping and the decline of subsistence agriculture, increased dependence on imports (especially food) and rapid urbanization, producing
growing dependence and inequality and outmigration. This suggests that strategies of development that appear viable elsewhere have little chance of success in the Pacific.
Archaeology ; Climatic variation ; Ecological crisis ; Holocene ; Human impact ; Human occupation ; Impact ; Island ; Pacific Region ; Palaeo-environment ; Palynology ; Reef ; Sea level
This paper first examines various approaches (archaeological approaches, approaches using extinction, sedimentation and pollens) to determining the time of initial arrival of people on Pacific Islands. Besides evaluating many sites where J. Flenley
disruptions characterized early human colonisation on Pacific Islands is then discussed.