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050 4 GF851|b.B43 2022
082 04 304.2099|223
100 1 Beamer, Kamanamaikalani,|eauthor
245 10 Islands and cultures :|bhow Pacific Islands provide paths
toward sustainability /|cKamanamaikalani Beamer, Te Maire
Tau, Peter M. Vitousek
264 1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2022]
264 4 |c©2022
300 xi, 228 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
520 "Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia
between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them
material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas
about societal organization, and then adapting to the
specific biophysical features of the islands they
discovered. The authors of this book analyze the formation
of their human-environment systems using oral histories,
biophysical evidence, and historical records, arguing that
the Polynesian islands can serve as useful models for how
human societies in general interact with their
environments. The islands' clearly defined (and relatively
isolated) environments, comparatively recent discovery by
humans, and innovative and dynamic societies allow for
insights not available when studying other cultures.
Kamana Beamer, Te Maire Tau, and Peter Vitousek have
collaborated with a dozen other scholars, many of them
Polynesian, to show how these cultures adapted to novel
environments in the past and how we can draw insights for
global sustainability today."--Publisher description
650 0 Human ecology|zIslands of the Pacific
650 0 Sustainability|zIslands of the Pacific
700 1 Tau, Te Maire,|eauthor
700 1 Vitousek, Peter Morrison,|eauthor
