Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
South Pacific Futures
Author: South Pacific Futures
Author: Anthony B. Van FossenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958672863
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive survey of expert views on he South Pacific region as it approaches the uncertain prospects of the next half century.
Pacific Futures
Author: Michael PowlesPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A timely consideration of the continuing challenges to the economic, political, social and cultural survival of the nations of the Pacific region. The book contains essays addressing issues of governance, human rights and custom, law reform, language and culture loss, the potential for a single currency, labour mobility and development assistance.
Island Time
Author: Damon SalesaPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1988533503
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand’s Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the ‘islands’ of Pacific life in New Zealand – Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru and beyond – he charts a country becoming ‘even more Pacific by the hour’. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?
Pacific Futures
Author: Warwick AndersonPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082487742X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this “sea of islands”? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past. Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders—from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners—making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific—and how the region is acted on by outside forces—and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the “slow violence” of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.
Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Asian Development BankPublisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292621823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Futures thinking and foresight is a powerful planning approach that can help Asia and the Pacific countries meet economic, political, social, and environmental and climate change challenges. This publication shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) piloted this approach to understand entry points to support transformational change in the region. It compiles lessons from an ADB initiative to apply futures and foresight tools in Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Futures terminology is introduced as are specific tools such as emerging issues analysis, scenario planning, and backcasting. It also describes how futures and foresight tools were applied in the countries.
Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Bambang SusantonoPublisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292624938
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This book reviews progress with regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific and explores how it can be reshaped to achieve a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future. Consisting of papers contributed by renowned scholars and Asian Development Bank staff, the book covers four major areas: public goods, trade and investment, financial cooperation, and regional health cooperation. The book emphasizes how the region can better leverage regional integration to realize its vast potential as well as overcome challenges such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
PostSecondary Education in the South Pacific
Author: R. CrocombePublisher:
ISBN: 9781848595064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book explores policy and practice at the postsecondary level in the South Pacific and sets an agenda for the twentyfirst century.
The Future of Asia-Pacific Economies
Author: Somsak TambunlertchaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Islands on the Net
Author: Michael Ray OgdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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