Islands and Cultures - How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward Sustainability

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records

About the author

Kamanamaikalani Beamer is professor and Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Te Maire Tau is associate professor and director, Ngāi Tahu Studies Centre at Canterbury University in New Zealand. Peter M. Vitousek is professor of biology, Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies, and a senior fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

Product details

• Authors: Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Kamanamaikalani Tau Beamer, Te Maire Tau, Tau Te Maire, Peter M. Vitousek, Vitousek Peter M.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780300253016
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25301-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Historical Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Oceania, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Food & society, Conservation of the environment, Social and cultural anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Historical Geography, Cultural studies: food and society, Oceania, Oceania / Pacific Islands