Resources, population and migration in the Pacific: Connecting islands and rim

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-373

  Opeskin, Brian ^a   MacDermott, Therese ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Colonialism; Migration; Population growth; Resources; Seasonal workers

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESOURCE DEPLETION; RESOURCE ECONOMY;

MICRONESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; POLYNESIA;

EID: 73449145647     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2009.01407.x     Document Type: Article

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