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, 2014 Melanesia, home to some 7 million people, covers a vast geographic region of the Southwest Pacific, comprising more than ten thousand islands, ranging from New Guinea, the world s second largest at some 785,753 km2, to a myriad of high volcanic islands through to small low atolls, stretching for thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean (Map 1 ...
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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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The Value of Tropical Biodiversity in Rural Melanesia
Valuation Studies, 2016 In this paper we discuss differences in the ways transnational conservationists and Melanesian farmers, hunters and fishers value ‘biodiversity’. The money for conservation projects in developing countries originates from people who are embedded in a ...
Simon Foale, Michelle Dyer, Jeff Kinch
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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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Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 2012 Since 1975, several Bulgarian zoologists have explored countries in South Asia and Melanesia (Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, South China, incl.
Petar Beron
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