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Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands

Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2025-07-17
Publication Date:
2025-07-17
Publisher:
Springer Nature Singapore
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9819736315
ISBN13:
9789819736317
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Weight:
517 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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