This report is prepared in response to the need to contribute to and facilitate implementation of national support to the formulation of National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It is an...
Education is the heart of development. It helps people build productive lives and cohesive societies. On the ground this means getting all children to school and delivering a high quality education. It means that teachers need to be well educated...
The 290 km long Mariana Islands Archipelago encompasses 14 islands of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the U.S. Territory of Guam, and numerous offshore banks. From a geological perspective, the islands can be divided...
The study of dispersal processes of small mammals, and especially of rodents, has a wide range of applications and until recent years there were few publications discussing the colonisation of 'oceanic' islands by small mammals (cf. Crowell, 1986...
To be able to continuously grow the necessary food crop, the soil has to be replenished with nutrient from organic matter or chemical fertilizer. Water is also necessary for good plant growth from sowing/transplanting until the end of the crop....
The Basel Convention was created to respond to increased public concern about toxic wastes in the 1980s. Tighter environmental regulation in industrialized countries resulted in sharp increases in the cost of hazardous waste disposal in these...
GOOS is being implemented in the Pacific islands region by PacificGOOS, which was formed in Suva in 1998. In August 2000, in Apia, Samoa, PacificGOOS held a regional workshop on the development of a coastal Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)...
The Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) is a multi-stakeholder capacity building process that aims to harness and enhance access to information and knowledge to support the management of Africas environmental resources as assets for...
Microbenthos and macrobenthos were quantitatively studied at 62 stations distributed regularly over the Uvea Atoll lagoon (850 km2). Sampling was performed using both SCUBA and a 0.1 m2 Smith Mclntyre grab. Mean estimates of ATP, chlorophyll a...
This is a report on research conducted by the author under the auspices of research funding provided by The University of Adelaide and the International Waters Project (IWP)1 of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (...