Paradise for sale : a parable of nature /
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecologi...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2000.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pntw1 |
| الملخص: | The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index. |
| ردمك: | 9780520924451 0520924452 0585274347 9780585274348 1282355031 9781282355033 9786612355035 6612355034 0520222296 0520218647 |