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O cei na Vulavula? Insights and Regrets of a Foreign Geoscientist in the Pacific Islands
Geosciences, Vol.11(5), pp.1-15
2021
Abstract
From over three decades of close contact with Pacific Islands geoscience, the author reflects on key issues (what he wished he had known earlier) about the nature of islands, their landscapes and their peoples. Experience elsewhere in the world rarely prepares you for the Pacific, from its youthful and often tectonically unstable landscapes to the understandings of its inhabitants, which are sometimes time-consuming and difficult to access yet frequently illuminating. Mysteries abound in Pacific geoscience, often in places as difficult to access as they ever were, yet which have the potential to inform global ideas about earth-surface evolution. Geoscience research and enterprise remain largely foreigner-driven in the Pacific Islands, which is often anathemic to sustainability, privileging ideas that are uncritically assumed to be shared by their peoples. An opportunity exists for Pacific peoples to own the geoscientific knowledge and potential of their islands
Details
- Title
- O cei na Vulavula? Insights and Regrets of a Foreign Geoscientist in the Pacific Islands
- Authors
- Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
- Publication details
- Geosciences, Vol.11(5), pp.1-15
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.3390/geosciences11050182
- ISSN
- 2076-3263
- Copyright note
- © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99526506802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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