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Book Environment and Development

Download or read book Environment and Development written by Gregory Votaw and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands

Download or read book Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands written by Edoardo Monaco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and ambitious volume - a product of close research collaboration with the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia - is conceived as a holistic “journey” across various domains of progress in a region that, despite fundamental common traits, remains vast and diverse. Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) have (too) often been identified with elements of vulnerability, whether these be social, economic, or environmental in nature. While these factors cannot be overlooked, this volume aims to showcase not only the long-standing and emerging challenges but, perhaps more importantly, the opportunities, the resilience, the resourcefulness, and the ambition that local socioeconomic development patterns in the Pacific already encompass. Beyond PICTs themselves, we hope that the analyses collected in this book will contribute to highlighting the global significance of the human–nature nexus in the current Anthropocene. Often captured in the concept of “small islands, big oceans”, the importance of the region and its islands and peoples transcends the geographical remoteness and small size of many PICTs.

Book Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands

Download or read book Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands written by Edoardo Monaco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific

Download or read book Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific written by Antony Hooper and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the South Pacific, notions of ‘culture’ and ‘development’ are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with ‘economic rationality’, ‘good governance’ and ‘progress’ is set against culture or ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ and ‘identity’. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. Resolution is sought in this book by a number of leading writers from the South Pacific including Langi Kavaliku, Epeli Hau’ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Malama Meleisea, Joeli Veitayaki, and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. The volume is brought together for UNESCO by Antony Hooper, Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. UNESCO experts include Richard Engelhardt, Langi Kavaliku, Russell Marshall, Malama Meleisea, Edna Tait and Mali Voi.

Book Sustainable Development   a Pacific Islands Perspective

Download or read book Sustainable Development a Pacific Islands Perspective written by Kanayathu Koshy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States

Download or read book Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States written by Janet R. Strachan and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one fifth of all politically independent countries are small island developing states. For these countries, sustainable development is not a matter of choice, it is imperative. This book seeks to initiate a debate on how to support a new wave of action for sustainable development.

Book Managing Government for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Managing Government for Sustainable Development written by Jim McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environment and Development in the Pacific Islands

Download or read book Environment and Development in the Pacific Islands written by Ben Burt and published by Asia Pacific Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strategies for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Strategies for Sustainable Development written by J. Overton and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the environments and cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia need to be taken careful account of in fashioning sustainable development projects and strategies. Case studies point up good and bad development practices.

Book Integrating Sustainable Development Into National Frameworks

Download or read book Integrating Sustainable Development Into National Frameworks written by Janet R. Strachan and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings policy-making for sustainable development into the mainstream of decision-making at all levels of governance and in all sectors. It builds on the 2005 internationally agreed 'Mauritius Strategy' which aims to implement the integration of sustainable development by small island developing states. Designed as a handbook for policy-makers and planners in government, as well as business and civil society leaders, it covers seven of the twenty issues that have been outlined in the Mauritius Strategy as being important for the sustainable development of SIDS - disaster management; marine resources; freshwater resources; land resources; energy resources; tourism resources and trade. It brings together best practices, policy options and development prospects that small states can pursue in order to achieve real progress in these fields. It covers the progress and experiences of countries in the Caribbean region, the Pacific region, and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean region in their implementation of sustainable development in these areas. It also provides a useful point of reference and stimulus to policy-makers and their supporting colleagues from all sectors.

Book Sustainable Development  Asia Pacific Perspectives

Download or read book Sustainable Development Asia Pacific Perspectives written by Pak Sum Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific region has been experiencing rapid development in the past 30 years, and issues relating to sustainable development will become increasingly important in the coming decades. This comprehensive overview presents sustainable development from the perspectives of Asia and the Pacific, with contributions from more than 70 leading international experts. The first part focuses on the theories and practices of sustainable development, including national and regional perspectives, as well as international policies and law concerning climate change. The second part highlights the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development and poverty reduction amid the changing ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political environment in this region. These include issues such as the importance of science for sustainable development and related areas, including sustainable energy, stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change, land-use change, biodiversity, and disaster risk reduction. The volume is an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development.

Book Sustainable Development in the Pacific Islands

Download or read book Sustainable Development in the Pacific Islands written by Pacific Islands Conference (17, 1998, Koror) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oceans and the Environment

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  • Author : DIANE Publishing Company
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 1994-04
  • ISBN : 9780788107269
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book The Oceans and the Environment written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference for representatives of the Pacific Islands community to discuss the threat of global warming and sea-level rise, waste disposal, ozone depletion, marine resource management, endangered species protection and the many other pressing environmental issues of our time.

Book A Sustainable Future for Small States

Download or read book A Sustainable Future for Small States written by Resina Katafono and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sustainable Future for Small States: Pacific 2050 is part of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s regional strategic foresight programme that examines whether current development strategies set the region on a path to achieve sustainable development by 2050. The study analyses whether Commonwealth Pacific small states (Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) will achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It reviews critical areas that can serve as a catalyst for change in the region: governance (examining political governance, development effectiveness and co-ordination, and ocean governance); non-communicable diseases; information and communications technology and climate change (focussing on migration and climate change, and energy issues). In each of these areas, possible trajectories to 2050 are explored, gaps in the current policy responses are identified, and recommendations are offered to steer the region towards the Pacific Vision of ‘a region of peace, harmony, security, social inclusion, and prosperity, so that all Pacific people can lead free, healthy, and productive lives’.

Book Sustainable Development and Environmental Management of Small Islands

Download or read book Sustainable Development and Environmental Management of Small Islands written by William S. Beller and published by Parthenon Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: