Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The South Pacific
Other Name
IPS Publications (Series)
Contributor/Publisher
University of the South Pacific
Place
Date
2008
Physical Description
xx, 739 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9820205143
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
7th edition
Subject Category
Content
1. Parameters -- Place: environmental deterioration and enhancement -- People: moving and mixing -- Health: more lives and longer, but problematic fitness -- 2. Patterns -- Language: how many of today's 1,200 will survive? -- Society: networks of commitment: getting wider but shallower -- Culture: an evolving synthesis of unity in diversity -- 3. Perceptions -- Creativity: reconciling the soul with the wallet -- Belief: more choice and less certainty in religions, philosophies, values and ethics -- Education: guidelines from where and for what? -- Information: moulding and creating perceptions, power and wealth -- 4. Property -- Tenure: constraints and opportunities relating to land and water -- Production: from village subsistence to global markets -- Trade: selling services and sovereighty -- Restructuring: shrinking governments in stagnant economies -- 5. Power -- Government: traditional and colonial politics -- Independence: leadership from within -- Identity: seeking a Pacific way? -- Birthright: the politics of accident of birth -- first-born, first arrived races and the rising status of women -- Corruption: stemming the rot -- Governance: the nature and quality of national cohesion -- Coertion: more military, police and other security forces -- Regionalsim: cooperation, competition, conflict, and assimilation into bigger regions -- Globalism: being small in a big world -- 6. Prospects -- Futures: widening choices in the 21st century.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Oceania--Encyclopedias]
On cover: Environment, history, society, culture, health, language, religion, education, information, economics, land & water, politics, governance, corruption, security, the Pacific way, regional and international relations, futures. Maps on end papers. Originally published in 1973 under title: "the new South Pacific". Includes bibliographic references and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
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Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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