Memories and Expectations of Environmental Disaster: Some Lessons from the Marshall Islands

The Republic of the Marshall Islands, an archipelago of low-lying coral atolls in eastern Micronesia, is one of four sovereign nations that may be rendered uninhabitable by climate change in the present century. It is not merely sea level rise which is expected to undermine life in these islands, bu...

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Main Author: Rudiak-Gould, Peter
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0024