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Island people --- Bronze age

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This United Nations report examines the sustainable development challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It discusses the unique vulnerabilities of SIDS, including ecological fragility, limited resources, geographic isolation, and economic disadvantages. The report outlines international frameworks like Agenda 21, the Barbados Programme of Action, and the Mauritius Strategy, which address these challenges. Key focus areas include climate change, disaster management, trade, finance, tourism, energy, natural resources, and social development. The report aims to provide a comprehensive review of progress and trends relevant to SIDS, with the goal of supporting ongoing international collaboration and policy development for sustainable growth. The intended audience includes policymakers, international organizations, and researchers interested in sustainable development.

Sustainable development. --- Island people.

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Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship. The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential connections with Nikunau Atoll, at the centre of the Pacific Ocean and once a Cinderella of the British Empire. The analysis explicates their present diasporic circumstances and the pathways through which these arose historically. The intention is to provide a basis for better prospects for succeeding generations from a critical, better-informed standpoint. The analysis relies on the partisan stance of the author, whose kinship ties with I-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau) are affinal, and his 30-year immersion among the People in question. In addition, a large quantity of literature sources and other secondary data are woven into the analysis, as situations and events are grappled with, articulated, interpreted and written into the book. The circumstances are analysed under 14 themes, namely, geographical, demographical, economic, environmental, cultural, societal, etc. The analysis should stir the waters of recent research about Nikunau and Kiribati, much of it concerned with environmental changes making uninhabitable Nikunau, Tarawa and other atolls where I-Nikunau reside, and imagining their resettlement on higher ground, for example, New Zealand, where several diasporic communities exist already. This recent research refers frequently to the social, cultural and economic matters covered in this book, indicating how relevant and important these matters are to the future of I-Nikunau and I-Kiribati. Furthermore, this relevance and importance may apply to the future of other peoples still inhabiting the world's atolls and facing whatever challenges this future may bring, climate-related and otherwise.

Island people --- Island life --- Climatic changes

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Espace suscitant rêves et fantasmes, l’île est souvent perçue comme une forme de laboratoire qui concentrerait des processus manifestes à l’échelle de la planète. Traditionnellement appréhendée comme objet d’enjeux stratégiques, l’approche des îles est renouvelée dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Au-delà de leurs singularités, celles-ci donnent en effet un éclairage spécifique sur les grands processus géopolitiques contemporains tels que les migrations, la régionalisation, le tourisme de masse, les paradis fiscaux, le changement climatique, etc.Entre représentation fantasmée et réalité intrinsèque, où se situe la vérité des îles contemporaines ? Quelle est leur place sur l’échiquier géopolitique mondial ?

States, Small --- Islands --- Geopolitics --- Island people

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This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a 'neutral' aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui's relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.

Rapanui language --- Rapanui (Easter Island people) --- Grammar. --- Language. --- Rapa Nui language --- Rapa Nui (Easter Island people)