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Author | : Patrick D. Nunn |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Geology, Structural |
ISBN | : 9789820201293 |
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"Pacific island landscapes explores the origin and physical history of one of the least known regions of the Earth's surface - the Pacific Islands. Never before has such a systematic account of the island groups been compiled. In this volume, Patrick Nunn outlines how each of the main island groups originated then gives detailed accounts - much from his own research -- - of islands in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. A final substantive chapter treats the interaction of early human settlers of Pacific Islands and their environments."--Back cover
Author | : Moshe Rapaport |
Publisher | : Bess Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781573060424 |
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Forty-five contributors offer information on the physical environment, history, culture, population, economy, and living environment of the Pacific islands.
Author | : Craig R. Elevitch |
Publisher | : PAR |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0970254458 |
Download Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This book is for the person who lives in the tropics or subtropics and is interested in native plants, who wants to know about plants that are useful, who loves to watch plants grow, and who is willing to work with them. Such a person might ask questions like, Where will they grow? How do I grow them? Are they good to eat? How are they used? What are their names? These questions and more are answered here."--Préface
Author | : Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300066036 |
Download Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Pacific Ocean islands have long been considered a natural laboratory where the evolution of human cultures can be studied in the context of thousands of island ecosystems. This text presents research in the ecological history of the Pacific Islands. Focusing on the environmental impact wrought by the Oceanic populations before the advent of Western contact, it challenges earlier views that the islands underwent dramatic environmental change only after European colonization. They demonstrate instead that in some cases the indigenous peoples had an often irreversible effect on the landscapes and biotas of the Pacific Islands and assert that these effects often had important consequences for island societies, economies, and political systems.
Author | : Dieter Mueller-Dombois |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1441986863 |
Download Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Written by the leading authorities on the plant diversity and ecology of the Pacific islands, this book is a magisterial synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is organized by island group, and includes information on geography, geology, phytogeographic relationships, and human influences on vegetation. Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands features over 400 color photographs, plus dozens of maps and climate diagrams. The authors’ efforts in assembling the existing information into an integrated, comprehensive book will be welcomed by biogeographers, plant ecologists, conservation biologists, and all scientists with an interest in island biology.
Author | : Kapila D. Silva |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2022-07-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000604578 |
Download The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a broader conceptual framework like the cultural landscape approach. The book also demonstrates that such an approach facilitates the development of a flexible strategy for heritage conservation. Acknowledging the effects of rapid socio-economic development, globalization, and climate change, contributors examine the pressure these issues place on the sustenance of cultural heritage. Including chapters from more than 20 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the volume reviews the effectiveness of theoretical and practical potentials afforded by the cultural landscape approach and examines how they have been utilized in the Asia-Pacific context for the last three decades. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes of cultural landscape heritage conservation and management. As a result, it will be of interest to academics, students, and professionals who are based in the fields of cultural heritage management, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and landscape management.
Author | : Patrick D. Nunn |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1999-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Talk of the human-enhanced greenhouse effect and the ways in which it may affect our lives has made many people more aware of environmental change. We have come to realize that the environment is and has always bean in a state of continuous change, and that we and other organisms have had to adjust our lifestyles accordingly. This book focuses on the Pacific Basin, a vast region which can be considered a microcosm of the entire surface of the Earth and which has suffered from being marginalized in most accounts of Earth-surface processes and phenomena. In this book, the Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Ocean and Islands and also the Pacific Rim which is divided into the subregions of Antarctica, South America, Central America, North America, Beringia, East Asia and Australasia. Professor Nunn begins by outlining the distant origins of the modern Pacific Basin more than 1000 million years ago, then traces its development through the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic into the Cenozoic Era. For this time the last 66 million years - the history of environmental change becomes progressively better known. For the last 1.8 million years (the Quaternary period), the Earth s climate has oscillated between warm and cool, producing synchronous environmental changes throughout most of the Pacific Basin. The importance of volcanism and tectonics (land-level movements) for which the Pacific Basin is well known as causes of environmental change is explained in detail. The effects of human activities on most Pacific Basin environments began to be registered only during the Holocene the last 12 000 years culminating in the environmental crisis which currently afflicts many parts of this region. While the role of humans in altering Pacific Basin environments is discussed in detail, considerable attention is also given to the ways in which environmental change caused changes to human lifestyles which had far-reaching consequences.
Author | : Patrick Nunn |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1994-03-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780631189671 |
Download Oceanic Islands Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In most accounts of geographical phenomena, islands in the middle of the oceans are marginalised and implicitly viewed as of little imortance. This is a convenient rather than a rational view and one which is comprehensively disposed of in this book which examines the great diversity of island environments worldwide and the controls on their development.
Author | : UNESCO |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 9231000411 |
Download Safeguarding precious resources for island communities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This publication aims to inform and guide decision-makers, professionals and local communities in their endeavors to create synergies between improving living conditions and caring for the environment, both natural and human-made"--Publisher's website.
Author | : Craig R. Elevitch |
Publisher | : PAR |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0970254407 |
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