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• Adaptation to Climate Change to Sustain Rural Development in Fiji

  Dakuiboca, Setareki

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  Climate change is one of the most important global environmental challenges, with implications for food production, water supply, health, energy, etc. Addressing climate change requires a good scientific understanding as well as coordinated action…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oceania

  An Important Part of the Pacific

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  Oceania comprises the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The region located between Asia, Australia, and both Americas is worth special attention not only for cultural but also political and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creatures of the Reef

  MacGregor, Jill

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  A coral reef provides shelter and food for hundreds of marine creatures. But the reef is now threatened by pollution, overfishing and climate change.

• Sonja's Kitchen

  Sustainable Cuisine From the Cook Islands

  Pignéguy, Dee, 1944-

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  These remarkably simple dishes are replete with healthy vitality and infused with flavour. Based on traditional, nutrient-dense fresh fruits and vegetables, poultry and seafood, with accents of ginger, lime, lemon, basil, garlic and coconut, Sonja's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mighty Mangroves

  MacGregor, Jill

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  Milo, a young boy, describes the ecology of the mangrove forests along the south coast of Samoa. He explains how the mangroves are important to the local community, and the importance of protecting the ecosystem.

• The Warm Winds of Change

  Globalisation and Contemporary Samoa

  Macpherson, Cluny

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  What makes a Samoan villager buy a Chinese polypropylene mat rather than weave their own pandanus mat? When do Pacific emigrants stop sending money back home? Do villagers stop giving away fish when they get a refrigerator? These are the sorts of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tuatau Taro

  Taro Time!

  Johnson, Layton-Monroe

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  "Do you know how to grow taro? Mama Kathy learned how to do it when she was growing up in the Cook Islands. Let's find out more!"--Back cover.

• Waves of Change

  Media, Peace, and Development in the Pacific

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  "This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach for analysis and insights into the related areas of media, conflict, peacebuilding, and development in the Pacific, a region in the throes of rapid change. Besides a review of previous publications…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eat Pacific

  the Pacific Island Food Revolution Cookbook

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  Compiled by award-winning chef, judge and TV host Robert Oliver, Eat Pacific includes 139 zesty recipes from Fiji, Sāmoa, the Kingdom of Tonga, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Floating World

  Images of the Tuvalu Environment

  McQuarrie, Peter

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  The islands of Tuvalu are under threat of being made completely uninhabitable due to the effects of climate change. In A Floating World,the author presents photographs from his collection which shows something of the character of the atolls and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation