From a Pacific Daughter: Haunani-Kay Trask’s Legacy for Indigenous Pacific Feminisms

A Comparative Appraisal of Roadway Accident for Asia-Pacific Countries

This paper describes an attempt to shed some light on road safety in Asia Pacific region by characterizing and assessing its road accidents. The relevant national road accident data were extracted from centralized data sources of international agencies. Due to data incompleteness and missing values, 21 Asia Pacific countries, presenting more than half of the world’s population, were selected fo...

Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin’s legacy

Introduction. Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin's legacy.

Charles Darwin stepped ashore on the Pacific Island of San Cristobal in the Galápagos archipelago on 17 September 1835. No doubt grateful to be on the steady, dry land, the young Darwin was at first unimpressed by the landscape ‘Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance’ (Darwin 1839, p. 454). Nevertheless, Darwin was to make important inferences from the observations of island b...

Theorising Empowerment Practice from the Pacific and Indigenous Australia

Documentation of Indigenous Pacific Agroforestry Systems: A Review of Methodologies

Recent interest in indigenous agroforestry has led to a need for documentation of these systems. However, previous work is very limited, and few methodologies are well-known or widely accepted. This paper outlines various methodologies (including sampling methods, data to be collected, and considerations in analysis) for documenting structure and productivity of indigenous agroforestry systems,...