Keimami sa vakila na liga ni Kalou (Feeling the Hand of God)

Human and nonhuman impacts on Pacific island environments

(isbn 982-01-0318-5)        3rd edition, 1997       Patrick Nunn

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Climate change seems to be a fact of life, and anyway we always talk about the weather, the most recent disaster or the loss of the past's golden age. Environemntal change (=degradation) seems to be the harvest of man's drive for 'development' and 'technological progress'.

But is this so? Perhaps human history in the Pacific is a story of ongoing adaptation and modification of behaviour inthe face of (often devastating) nonhuman impacts that are well beyond our controlling power. Perhaps environmental  change = better use of?

In this third edition of this provocative paper, Nunn chanllenges the routine assumption that human activity has been the major villain in postsettlement questions of importance to our developers and planners, as well as to those who seek to understand our past in Oceania.