Opening Plenary Address.

A. Resource Management: Imperatives For Survival.
B. Sustainable Development: Illusion or Achievable Goal?
C. Coastal Change: Land Loss, Near Shore Ecosystem Degradation.
D. Island Peoples on the Move.
E. Cultural Innovation and Change.
F. Myths and Legends: Encoded Wisdom?
G. Food and Security: Strategies for Life.
H. Leadership and Governance: Ways of Effective Decision-Making.
I. Regionalism: Towards Independence, Interdependence or Dependence.
J. Ethnobiology: A Bridge Between Indigenous and Modern Science

Closing Address.