Adaptation of human coping strategies in a small island society in the SW pacific - 50 years of change in the coupled human - Environment system on Bellona, Solomon Islands

Human Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 807-819

  Reenberg, Anette ^a   Birch Thomsen, Torben ^a   Mertz, Ole ^a   Fog, Bjarne ^a   Christiansen, Sofus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Livelihood; MIRAB; Shifting cultivation; Solomon Islands; SW Pacific

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COPING STRATEGY; CULTIVATION; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA];

EID: 58149196344     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-008-9199-9     Document Type: Article

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