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A livelihood analysis of resettlement outcomes: Lessons for climate-induced relocations

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000 Years Ago

article

Adaptation, sustainable food systems and healthy diets: an analysis of climate policy integration in Fiji and Vanuatu

scientific article published in 2022

Alluvial charcoal in the Sigatoka Valley, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

scholarly article by Patrick D. Nunn published in October 2004

An Introduction to Theoretical Geomorphology

article published in 1989

An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

An indicative index of physical susceptibility of small islands to coastal erosion induced by climate change: an application to the Pacific islands

scholarly article by Lalit Kumar et al published January 2018 in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

Analysis of pottery samples from Bourewa, the earliest known Lapita site in Fiji

scientific article

Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample

scientific article published in 2022

Audience segmentation and climate change communication: conceptual and methodological considerations

scholarly article by Donald W Hine et al published 19 March 2014 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Beyond the core: community governance for climate-change adaptation in peripheral parts of Pacific Island Countries

article

Book reviews

Bridging the Gulf Between Science and Society: Imperatives for Minimizing Societal Disruption from Climate Change in the Pacific

scholarly article published 2009

Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: Insights from the Bā River Valley, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

article

Classifying Pacific islands

article published in 2016

Climate change adaptation planning in remote contexts: insights from community-based natural resource management and rural development initiatives in the Pacific Islands

scientific article published in 2021

Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific During the Last Millennium

Coastal Changes Over the Past 200 Years Around Ovalau and Moturiki Islands, Fiji: Implications for coastal zone management

article published in 2000

Coastal Evolution in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Coastal Geomorphology of the Beqa and Yanuca Islands, South Pacific Ocean, and Its Significance for the Tectonic History of the Vatulele-Beqa Ridge ⬇️

scientific article published in 1990

Coastal Settings

Coastal issues for oceanic islands: implications for human futures

Collapses of island societies from environmental forcing: Does history hold lessons for the future?

Coronavirus: COVID-19 Transmission in Pacific Small Island Developing States

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Culturally grounded responses to coastal change on islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, northwest Pacific Ocean

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Disruption of coastal societies in the Pacific Islands from rapid sea-level fall about AD 1300: new evidence from northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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Early Lapita settlement site at Bourewa, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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Ecological Crises or Marginal Disruptions: the Effects of the First Humans on Pacific Islands

Environmental Change in Coastal Areas and Islands

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

Environmental catastrophe in the Pacific Islands around A.D. 1300

Evidence for introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) and lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta) in Lapita-era (c. 3050–2500cal.yrBP) deposits from Bourewa, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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Evidence for late Quaternary sea level change around St. Helena island, south Atlantic

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Far-Field Test of the ICE-4G Model of Global Isostatic Response to Deglaciation Using Empirical and Theoretical Holocene Sea-Level Reconstructions for the Fiji Islands, Southwestern Pacific

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Fiji

Fished Up or Thrown Down: The Geography of Pacific Island Origin Myths

From community-based to locally led adaptation: Evidence from Vanuatu

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Geographical Influences on Settlement-Location Choices by Initial Colonizers: a Case Study of the Fiji Islands

Geohazards and myths: ancient memories of rapid coastal change in the Asia-Pacific region and their value to future adaptation

article

Geological histories and geohazard potential of Pacific Islands illuminated by myths

Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change: Edited by P.V. Kirch and T.L. Hunt

Holocene Sea Levels and Coastal Change, South-west Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Holocene sea-level change and human response in Pacific Islands

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Holocene tectonic histories for five islands in the south-central Lau group, south Pacific

Human Responses To Coastal Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Human responses to climate change around AD 1300: A case study of the Sigatoka Valley, Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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Human-Mediated Prehistoric Marine Extinction in the Tropical Pacific? Understanding the Presence of Hippopus hippopus (Linn. 1758) in Ancient Shell Middens on the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, Northwest Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Identifying climate change interpretive communities in a large Australian sample

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Illuminating Sea-Level Fall around AD 1220–1510 (730-440 cal yr BP) in the Pacific Islands: Implications for Environmental Change and Cultural Transformation

Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: A case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

scholarly article by Rory A. Walshe & Patrick D. Nunn published December 2012 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Introduction

Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise ⬇️

Islands at Risk? Environments, Economies and Contemporary Change by J. CONNELL, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2013, 368 pp, ISBN 9781 78100 350 3 (hardback), UK£90.00

Isotopic evidence of human mobility and diet in a prehistoric/protohistoric Fijian coastal environment (c. 750-150 BP)

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Lashed by sharks, pelted by demons, drowned for apostasy: the value of myths that explain geohazards in the Asia-Pacific region

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Late Cenozoic tectonic history of Lau Ridge, Southwest Pacific, and associated shoreline displacements: Review and analysis

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Late Quaternary environmental changes on Pacific islands: controversy, certainty and conjecture

Late Quaternary environmental changes on Pacific islands: controversy, certainty and conjecture

Late Quaternary sea-level and tectonic changes in northeast Fiji

Misperceptions of climate-change risk as barriers to climate-change adaptation: a case study from the Rewa Delta, Fiji

scholarly article by Shalini Lata & Patrick D. Nunn published 15 April 2011 in Climatic Change

Moving People in a Changing Climate: Lessons from Two Case Studies in Fiji

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Na Koronivalu ni Bā: Upland Settlement during the Last Millennium in the Bā River Valley and Vatia Peninsula, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Nature and Chronology of Prehistoric Settlement on the Vatia Peninsula, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Nature‐society interactions in the pacific islands

New Finds of Lapita Pottery in Northeast Fiji

Observations of postglacial sea-level rise in northwest European traditions

scholarly article

Occurrence and ages of low-level platforms and associated deposits on South Atlantic coasts

article published in 1984

Oceanic Islands

On the convergence of myth and reality: examples from the Pacific Islands

Pacific Atolls: A World Apart

Pacific Island Landscapes

Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Geomorphology

Penultimate Interglacial emerged reef around Kadavu Island, Southwest Pacific: Implications for late Quaternary island‐arc tectonics and sea‐level history

Peripherality as key to understanding opportunities and needs for effective and sustainable climate-change adaptation: a case study from Viti Levu Island, Fiji

scientific article published in 2019

Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change?

scholarly article by Donald W. Hine et al published January 2016 in Global Environmental Change

Rapid societal change as a proxy for regional environmental forcing: Evidence and explanations for Pacific island societies in the 14-15th centuries

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Recent Environmental Changes on Pacific Islands

Recent archaeological findings at Qaranilaca Cave, Vanuabalavu Island, Fiji

scholarly article by Frank R. Thomas published in April 2004

Responding to multiple climate-linked stressors in a remote island context: The example of Yadua Island, Fiji

Response to “The trouble with deficits: a commentary” by Elizabeth F. Hall and Todd Sanders

Review of evidence for late Tertiary shorelines occurring on South Atlantic coasts

article

Revising ideas about environmental determinism: Human-environment relations in the Pacific Islands

Risks to future atoll habitability from climate‐driven environmental changes

scientific article

Role ofporolithon algal-ridge growth in the development of the windward coast of Tongatapu Island, Tonga, South Pacific

article

Sea levels, shorelines and settlements on Pacific reef islands

Sea-level fall implicated in profound societal change about 2570 cal yrbp(620bc) in western Pacific island groups

scientific article published in 2015

Sea-level rise by 2100.

scientific article

Significance of emerged Holocene corals around Ovalau and Moturiki islands, Fiji, southwest Pacific

Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world: Challenges and opportunities for climate action

scientific article published in 2022

Small Islands and Geomorphology: Review and Prospect in the Context of Historical Geomorphology

article

Spirituality and attitudes towards Nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change adaptation

scholarly article by Patrick D. Nunn et al published 7 March 2016 in Climatic Change

Support for Climate Change Policies Measure

scholarly article published 2013

THE A.D. 1300 EVENT IN THE PACIFIC BASIN*

THROUGH A MIST ON THE OCEAN: HUMAN UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAND ENVIRONMENTS

The Development of the River Thames in Central London during the Flandrian

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The Lapita Occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, Central Fiji ⬇️

The end of the Pacific? Effects of sea level rise on Pacific Island livelihoods

article published in 2013

Times of Plenty, Times of Less: Last-Millennium Societal Disruption in the Pacific Basin

article by Patrick D. Nunn et al published 5 January 2007 in Human Ecology

Times of sand: Sedimentary history and archaeology at the Sigatoka Dunes, Fiji

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Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships- Edited by S. Gössling and C.M. Hall

scholarly article by Patrick D. Nunn published 10 May 2007 in Geographical Research

Transformative adaptation as a sustainable response to climate change: insights from large-scale case studies

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding and Adapting to Sea-Level Rise

Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific

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Vanished Islands in Vanuatu: New research and a preliminary geohazard assessment

scholarly article by Patrick D. Nunn et al published March 2006 in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Vanishing Islands

What are the barriers to successful community-based climate change adaptation? A review of grey literature

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth

work by Patrick Nunn

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