Global warming and Pacific Islands





Global warming and Pacific Islands / Edited by Hiroshi moriwaki and Kei Kawai

Kagoshima, Japan :Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands ,2007


iv, 50 p. ,ill. ; 26 cm


Occasional Papers 47

Contents :
I.Holocene sea-level change in Eastern Polynesia, the South Pacific in the light of change in coastal environment associated with global warming.
II.What's happening in Tuvalu, realities of global warming
III.Impacts on the land maintenance mechanisms of Atolls induced by the climate change and the sea levels-rise, field survey on Majuro Atoll, the Marshall Islands
IV.Adaptation policy in a post-2012 climate regime
V.Adapting to climate change in the Pacific Islands
VI.Problems and prospects for Islands at the margins : a case study of Moturiki Island, Central Fiji

Coastal zone management -- Environmental aspects-- Islands of the Pacific
Global warming
Sea level
Oceania -- Environmental aspects




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