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Conflicts again? Resource exploitation and political instability in Melanesia [PDF]
Pacific Geographies, 2014 Most of the Melanesian countries are caracterized by political instability. At the same time, they possess enormous deposits of natural resources. The paper analyses the correlation between conflict and resource wealth.
Kowasch, Matthias, Holtz, Andreas
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Integrating student-centred learning in Asia-Pacific
Pacific Journalism Review, 2003 Universities are ideally placed to support the developing media industry in the Asia-Pacific by integrating their student projects with community service activities.
Sharon Tickle
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Jack London et les mers du Sud
Géographie et Cultures, 2003 Polynesia and Melanesia Archipelagos have always stimulated the Western imagination, as the ideal space to project fantasies and nostalgia. The South Seas are one of the greatest theme in Jack London's work, thanks to a cruise on the Snark.
Hadrien Dubucs
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Gender differences in the perceived impacts of coastal management and conservation
npj Ocean SustainabilityGender influences the ways that people are involved in and rely on coastal resources and spaces. However, a limited understanding of gender differences in this context hinders the equity and effectiveness of coastal management and conservation.
Sarah J. Harper +10 more
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Biodiversity through Domestication
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2013 It is not widely known that Melanesia became a centre of horticulture and arboriculture about 8,000 years ago: taro (Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosprema chamissonis, Alocasia macrorrhiza); sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a close relative called sayur ...
Wulf Schiefenhövel
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Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient.
PLoS ONE, 2017 The Indo-Pacific is home to Earth's most biodiverse coral reefs. Diversity on these reefs decreases from the Coral Triangle east through the islands of Melanesia.
Joshua A Drew, Kathryn L Amatangelo
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, 2017 Monoon in Melanesia The generic name Monoon was recently taken up again (Xue et al. 2012) for a group of 60–70 species, mostly formerly included in Polyalthia, Enicosanthum, Cleistopetalum and Woodiellantha. The genus has not been monographed, but in listing the species that they recognised in the genus and making many new combinations, Xue et al ...
Turner, Ian M., Utteridge, Timothy M. A.
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Waikato Journal of Education, 2017 Mosmeli was certainly one of the least interested in school. Her dress partly torn and stained from eating young green coconuts seemed to be the only one she had. Her hair as stringy as seaweed was never combed. She had a runny nose that ran ceaselessly like the Poha river. Mother died last June before she turned eight.
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Early Metal Age Dentate-stamped Pottery and Jars in Wallacea
SPAFA JournalDentate-stamped pottery is identified as one of the earliest types of Austronesian pottery found in Maritime Southeast Asia, the Mariana Islands in Micronesia, the Bismark Archipelago, and other islands in Melanesia.
Rintaro Ono +7 more
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