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Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Environmental Sciences, , language: English, abstract: The paper makes a review of the evolution and traditional use of the biological resources in the Pacific islands in order to find common trends and problems, and the way how do major land cover changes driven by anthropic pressure influence the national economies and the environment. An assessment of timber growth performance in a plantation...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Fiji National University (College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Fiji National University), language: English, abstract: Fiji Islands are among the most dynamic economies in the South Pacific, with rapid changes on infrastructure and industrial developments, tourism and commercial agriculture, even though they often come alongside environmental impa...

The last decades witnessed an ever increasing concern for sustainable development worldwide together with unprecedented trends of human disturbance to land ecosystems. The case of tropical countries is particularly complex and largely misunderstood for being multi cultural regions with high biodiversity, politically unstable, economically weak, and usually struggling for a better integration with the global market. Most of the interventions we...