Vulnerable Islands: Climate Change, Tectonic Change, and Changing Livelihoods in the Western Pacific

@article{Connell2015VulnerableIC,
  title={Vulnerable Islands: Climate Change, Tectonic Change, and Changing Livelihoods in the Western Pacific},
  author={John Connell},
  journal={The Contemporary Pacific},
  year={2015},
  volume={27},
  pages={1 - 36},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162562633}
}
  • J. Connell
  • Published 5 June 2015
  • Environmental Science, Geography
  • The Contemporary Pacific
Small Pacific islands, especially atolls, have been widely argued to be in the forefront of climate change. Recent degradation of island environments has primarily been attributed to the impact of… 
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