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Synthesizes how climate change has driven environmental change in the Pacific Basin.

This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: . Context: past, present, and future prospects. Theory: concepts, narratives, and the...

Dive beneath the water's surface to learn more about the truths and myths of submerged lands in science and culture. The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface, broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent decades. We now know en...

This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: . Context: past, present, and future prospects. Theory: concepts, narratives, and the...

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Discover ancient civilization that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history.The traces of much of human history--and that which preceded it--lie beneath the ocean surface, broken up, dispersed, often buried, and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingl...

How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can they tell us about the future?"A surprising, well-supported perspective on Earth's distant past." - Kirkus How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can they tell us about the future?In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He loo...

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Provides an account of the subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific. This book addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants.