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Utanga, T. Alan T. "Contemporary coastal protection on Rarotonga, Cook Islands." Thesis, University of Canterbury. MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4260.

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This thesis examines the effects of coastal protection structures upon the sandy coastline of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The coastline is surrounded by a fringing coral reef which is continuous except for six passages. Water from the open sea enters the lagoonal area by waves breaking over the roof and propagates towards the shore as reformed waves. A detailed analysis of beach change and adjustments in front of and adjacent to coastal protection structures is presented. While there has been a substantial increase in data in the nearshore oceanographic regime and the nearshore coastal zone on Ra

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Horton, Philippa. "Determiners and complementizers in Cook Islands Maori." Connect to full text, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5310.

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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Sydney, 2000.<br>Title from title screen (viewed July 29, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy to the Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts. Bibliography: leaves 185-189. Also available in print form.

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Horan, Jane Catherine. "Tivaivai in the Cook Islands ceremonial economy : an analysis of value." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19380.

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This thesis is about tivaivai, which are unquilted quilts made and used by Cook Islands women in the Cook Islands ceremonial economy. They are the paramount form of valuable in ritual exchanges during kinship ��life�� events, and other public gifting events, which draw people together via translocal and transnational kin and wider social networks. How Cook Islands women use tivaivai as the gift and/or as decoration in these ceremonial arenas is part of the way Cook Islanders do economy as a local model of livelihood (Gudeman 2001, 2008). Such a model is founded on the material and nonmateria

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Gragg, Joan Elisabeth. "Seeing the funny side: focusing on Cook Islands humour in the experience of the religious pageant Nuku." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/908.

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This multi-media art project investigates the notion of Cook Islands humour, and subsequently place, through the context of the religious pageant Nuku. This pageant has been practiced annually in the Cook Islands for over one hundred and sixty years. While it is not a pageant based on humour, I suggest, through experience and research, that many of the characteristics of Cook Islands humour are revealed in Nuku. The aim of this project is not to recreate the narrative set out in the Nuku pageant but to use this event to explore ways to visually express the humour of the Cook Islands. After res

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Chambers, Charlotte Nesta Louise. "Bounding the lagoon : spatialising practices and the politics of rahui, Tongareva, Cook Islands." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29056.

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This research is an exploration of the politics and governance of resource use and environmental conservation in the geographical context of Tongareva – a remote atoll in the northern Cook Islands, eastern South Pacific – with a specific focus on the harvest of a species of giant clam, pasua (<i>Tridacna maxima</i>). The thesis examines a range of management practices, social relations and ecological conditions in order to demonstrate the socio-political-ecological nexus that produces pasua management on the island. Theoretically, the dissertation engages with recent debates around the social

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Hoffmann, Kamila. "Professional development across the islands of the South Pacific : A qualitative study of blended learning facilitators in the Cook Islands." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-117483.

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are having remarkable effects and promise potential solutions to many of the South Pacific islands’ geographic, economic and social challenges. Access to ICTs is also an increasingly important factor for education and training in the region. While the Pacific eLearning Observatory, supported by the University of the South Pacific, has been monitoring the development and access to ICT in education across the 12 university’s campuses, studies that specifically examine the attitudes and understanding of educators working on the islands of the Sout

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Hermann, Upokoina Mataturua E. Te Au, and n/a. "The teaching of English as a second language in the Cook Islands : an analysis." University of Canberra. Education, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060721.123442.

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The demands imposed on teachers who are L2 speakers of English, in the Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL) have had far-reaching consequences. In these situations, the consequences are compounded when the teacher is a L3 speaker of English teaching English to students who are predominantly L2/L3 speakers. Such consequences were explicitly stated in a number of reports, reviews and observations (Elley, 1979; Chamberlain, 1987; Laws and Horsley, 1988; The Ministerial Taskforce, 1989) and others. Issues relating to quality of education and quality of English teaching were frequently a

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Vougioukalou, Sofia Anthi. "Ethnomedicine and the dynamics of knowledge transmission and plant conservation in Atiu, Cook Islands." Thesis, University of Kent, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498857.

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Allen, Melinda S. "Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence : archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Oslands /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6437.

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George, Kay. "Evolving patterns of identity: a visual response to observations of Cook Islands' women and their adornment." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/915.

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This multimedia visual arts project investigates, from a personal perspective, changes in the context of Cook Islands’ women’s adornment. In a modern world, changes in adornment have become disconnected from cultural traditions and so this study explores how over time evolving patterns of adornment are employed by women to identify their place in society. Observations have been drawn from the developing relationship between the researcher and the women in Rarotonga, the Cook Islands’ community where this project took place. These observations are documented explored and articulated primarily t

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McCall, Robert A. "Biological, geographical and geological factors influencing biodiversity on islands." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244625.

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Simhon, Shlomo Saul. "Islands of reliability for hybrid topological-metric mapping." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20864.

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This thesis describes a method for mapping unknown large scale static environments using a hybrid of topological and metric representations. A global map is formed from a set of local maps for sub-regions of the environments. Each local map contains quantitative environment information used to define a local reference frame. These maps are referred to as islands of reliability because they are associated with the sub-regions whose local structure is best matched to the sensors we are using. The connectivity of these islands is represented topologically. The key mapping problem we consider is w

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rinder, Singh Narinder Singh. "Water scarcity in the Maltese Islands : geopolitics and management issues." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4721/.

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The Maltese Islands have a history of water resource problems. A high proportion of the Maltese population has suffered over the past few years from water scarcity caused mainly by: (a) a shortage in water production and escalating water demands; (b) rising salinity levels in groundwater and tap water; (c) an undersized and deteriorating distribution system; and (d) increasing levels of groundwater pollution. There is a spatial variation in the intensity of these problems. They are greatest in the south of Malta and it has been suggested that this is due to geopolitical, as well as social, eco

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Drumm, Darrin Jared, and n/a. "Habitats and macroinvertebrate fauna of the reef-top of Rarotonga, Cook Islands : implications for fisheries and conservation management." University of Otago. Department of Marine Science, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060901.134208.

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Throughout the Pacific, many species of echinoderms and molluscs have cultural value and are harvested extensively in subsistence fisheries. Many of these species are sedentary and often associated with distinct reef-top habitats. Despite the significance of reef habitats and their fauna for fisheries and biodiversity etc, little information has been available on the distribution of habitats and their influence on the reef-top fauna in the Cook Islands. This thesis developed a novel approach to assess the status of the shallow-water reef-tops of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, to provide critical inf

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Barcham, Manuhuia. "State, society and development in the Pacific : analysing structural adjustment in the Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Political Science, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4261.

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Schembri, John Andrew. "Coastal land use in the Maltese Islands : a description and appraisal." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4417/.

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The area of the Maltese Islands is 316 km , and with an official coastal length of 180 km(^2) possess a high ratio of coastal length to area. The physical properties of the coast include a highly indented and largely accessible coastline having a low sloping profile, on the north, east and south-east littoral of Malta, presenting inlets, bays and deep harbours. Most of the recreational, industrial and coastal residential areas are situated around these areas together with a wide range of fortifications and military defensive structures built as part of the coastal defensive network of Malta ov

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Parkes, Annette. "Holocene environments and vegetational change on four Polynesian islands." Thesis, University of Hull, 1994. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5716.

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The specific research objectives of this study are: to look at environmental changes that have occurred on several Pacific island systems from the pre- to post-settlement periods; to see whether the observed changes are natural or anthropogenic; to test the latest Polynesian settlement theory; and to contribute to the understanding of the vegetation history on these islands. This study reports the results of stratigraphic investigations from four Polynesian sediment sequences. The sediments of Lakes Lanoto'o (Upolu), Roto (Atiu), Temae (Mo'orea) and Vaihiria (Tahiti) have revealed a history of

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Sandercombe, Simone. "The marine record of abrupt climate change at Bay of Islands, Newfoundland." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106339.

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This study assesses vegetational response to abrupt climatic changes that occurred between ca. 12,000 and 8,000 yr BP using a palynological record from Bay of Islands (west coast of Newfoundland). Western Newfoundland is located near the boundary of two major ecozones: the boreal forest and the tundra. This transition zone is very sensitive to climate change. Core MD99-2225 was extracted from Humber Arm at a depth of 104m, roughly 12km from the Humber River. Samples were analysed every 10cm between 10 and 25 m down-core. Pollen analysis was used to track the evolution of vegetation, and the pr

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Igarashi, Yuriko. "Subsistence activities of prehistoric Polynesians : Analyses of shell artifacts and shell remains excavated at prehistoric sites on Mangaia, Cook Islands." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/86282.

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Hudson, Alan Christopher. "Globalization, regulation and geography : the development of the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands offshore financial centres." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360016.

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Everard, Cyril. "The Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands : "bench-mark" hydrographic and geodetic surveys 1689-1980." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2004. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1838.

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The English Channel has been both a major maritime artery and a navigator's nightmare for many centuries. Two archipelagoes, the Isles of Scilly to the north and the Channel Islands to the south, have been and remain major hazards. The two archipelagos have long cartographic histories which have yet to be fully documented. The present study is, with two limited exceptions, confined to British official hydrographic surveys and more specifically to those that may be regarded as 'bench-mark' surveys , i. e. surveys that made significant advances in 44& charting the two archipelagoes. The study is

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Friesen, Wardlow. "Labour mobility and economic transformation in Solomon Islands: lusim Choiseul, bae kam baek moa?" Thesis, University of Auckland, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2442.

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This thesis examines the relationship of labour mobility and socioeconomic transformation in the Solomon Islands, and proposes that one cannot be understood in isolation from the other. Explanation is pursued both at the levels of structure and of agency, and integration of these levels is attempted in some places. This is discussed in the first part of the thesis, within a general discussion of issues of theory and method. The second part of the thesis deals with the structural parameters of labour mobility. Through the twentieth century, the institutions of government, mission and capitalist

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Salmond, Jacqueline L. "THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF TOURISM ON THE PERHENTIAN ISLANDS." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/2.

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In recent years there has been an increase in the adoption of tourism as an economic strategy in many developing nations and a growing interest in how communities and individuals engage with tourism. This parallels research which aims to uncover alternative readings of community participation in forms of economic and social development. This research uses tourism as a lens to understand the economic subjectivity of communities engaged in tourism. Focusing on how the local populations understand, experience and participate in tourism, it paints a picture of the Perhentian Islands which challeng

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Wikel, Geoffrey L. "Variability in Geologic Framework and Shoreline Change: Assateague and Wallops Islands, Eastern Shore of Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617877.

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Eddy, Brian G. "A GIS-based fuzzy logic method for mineral potential mapping: An experiment with a geological map of the Parry Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9837.

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The application of fuzzy logic in a GIS framework is a valuable method to assist in mineral resource assessments (MRA) in areas where data are sparse. This study uses a digital geological map, backed by a digital geological data model, derived from published legends and reports. Together they function as a 'spatial-attribute relational data model' that provides evidence, in the form of derivative maps, to support mineral potential according to deposit model criteria. A knowledge-base is created with fuzzy membership functions linked to the classes of each derivative map that indicate favourabi

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Ferdinand, Idelia. "Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into community development in the Windward Islands." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2013. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/14837/.

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The Windward Islands are vulnerable to a number of natural hazards. This thesis examines the possibilities for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Windward Islands. The Windward Islands offer a special case of “Island Vulnerability”. Island vulnerability is essentially defined as an increased probability in disaster events against what would be expected if vulnerability were to be measured against international levels of poverty, defined as Gross National Product per capita. There are three reasons for this namely the topography of islands, the site characteristics and the socio-economic sett

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Harwood, Joseph Walter IV. "Delineation and GIS Mapping of Urban Heat Islands Using Landsat TM Imagery." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208562366.

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Paul, Bence Timothy. "A new perspective on melt inclusions : development of novel in-situ analytical protocols /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002977.

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Sperandio, Elisa. "SETTING THE STAGE: RESIDENT EXPERIENCES WITH ENFORCEMENT, RESCUE AND SPECTACLE IN LAMPEDUSA." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/61.

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Located 127 miles from the shores of Sicily and only 70 from Tunisia, the island of Lampedusa is home to a population of 6000. Residents are largely reliant on a centuries-old fishing economy, a booming tourism industry and, most recently, the sustainment of a complex apparatus of border enforcement. Since the early 2000s, with the hardening of the southern border of Italy and the European Union, a multitude of actors have converged to Lampedusa: from migrants, to agents of enforcement, to NGO personnel, along with journalists, researchers and tourists. In this thesis, I center the experiences

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Benedicto, Royuela Jose. "Foresight scenario building and multi-criteria appraisal to inform sustainable development in small islands." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8846.

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This thesis is the result of applying a novel methodology which I labelled ‘participative foresight scenario mapping’. This methodology couples participatory methods for building holistic foresight scenarios for sustainable development in Flores Island (Azores, Portugal) with a multi-criteria appraisal method, Multi-criteria mapping (Stirling, 1997), to assess these scenarios alongside five sector based regional scenarios (Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar, 2006). The main research question was to reflect on how small isolated societies, which have a distant relation with strategic deci

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Guyot-Tephany, Josselin. "Protéger la nature à l'ère de l'anthropocène : Géo-graphies de l'archipel des Galapagos (Equateur)." Thesis, Limoges, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIMO0022/document.

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La présente thèse a pour ambition d’interroger les fondements de la protection de la nature à l’ère de l’anthropocène. Le postulat de départ est que l’incapacité à répondre aux enjeux écologiques reflète les contradictions de l’ontologie naturaliste, laquelle s’est imposée comme la conception hégémonique des rapports entre humains et non humains (Descola 2005). L’argumentaire repose sur une analyse critique des politiquesdéveloppées dans un territoire emblématique du naturalisme : l’archipel des Galapagos (Équateur). Lieu fondateur des sciences naturelles, il représente l’archétype le plus abo

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Richardson, Paul Benjamin. "At the edge of the nation : the Southern Kuril Islands and the search for Russia's national destiny." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1623/.

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In post-Soviet Russia, the destiny of the Southern Kuril Islands has been used by the political and intellectual elite to define and contest ideas of national identity. From the early 1990s these islands became a symbolic territory for elite groups attempting to define what kind of state the Russian Federation should become. The various geographical visions projected onto these islands are part of a struggle between elite groups to define national values and to claim the state for their own political ends. However, such visions are not smoothly inscribed onto these islands. Instead, any idea o

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Cochran, Nancy E. "Detection of Urban Heat Islands in the Great Lakes Region with GLOBE Student Surface Temperature Measurements." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1418421488.

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Kellar, Debra Meridith Mokaren. "The Examination of Vehicle Related Flood Fatalities in the United State, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories of the Virgin Islands and Guam: 1995-2005." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1290537007.

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Schwebel, Michael Bryan. "Climate change adaptation and policy in Pacific small island states| Safe havens or adrift at sea?" Thesis, Temple University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3703089.

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<p> Pacific Small Island States (PSIS) are in the precarious position as some of the first jurisdictions to grapple with the current and forecasted effects of climate change, such as forced migrations and loss of culture. Yet, islanders' viewpoints are neither often fully understood nor heeded by those at the international decision making levels. Therefore, how and to what extent are PSIS successfully preparing for climate change? </p><p> This completed study used a mixed methods approach that examines nissology — how islanders view and understand themselves — and its relationsh

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Marsters, Teuvirihei Helene. "Beach stability on a tropical uplifted coral atoll : Niue Island : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of of Science (Hons) in Physical Geography /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1216.

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Davis, Brittany Y. "Angling for Inclusion: Marine Conservation, Livelihoods, Local Knowledge, and Tourism on Utila, Honduras." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333221.

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Over the past two decades, developing countries have recognized the economic value of attractive marine resources and the need to actively protect these resources. Many of these conservation projects rely on limiting extractive activities to protect habitats, which restricts local livelihoods, and promoting marine resource-based tourism to provide financing for conservation. Using a political ecology framework, this dissertation investigates two connected aspects of tourism and conservation: tourists' seafood consumption and the Go Blue Central America, a geotourism project initiated by Nation

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Puna, Repeta. "Ko Marouna te toa the effects of the Cook Islands public sector reform on the delivery of education : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil), 2008." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/415.

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The effects of the public sector reform impacted on all aspects of public services including the performance of the economy. Central to this argument was the re-organization of the operations of the public service from the traditional administration system to the new public management (NPM). Education, a critical service in any economy was not spared. Literatures around the application of NPM (a derivative of market principles and practices) to education (which was value based) suggested that NPM was dangerous for education and could deplete the value system of education and replace that wit

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Iro, Elizabeth. "The leadership experience of first line nurse managers working in the Cook Islands a qualitative descriptive study : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Health Science (MHSc), 2007 /." Click here to acces resource online, 2007. http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/79.

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Thesis (MHSc--Health Science) -- AUT University, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (xi, 107 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in North Shore Campus Theses Collection (T 610.73099623 IRO)

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Donoho, Emily S. "Appeasing the saint in the loch and the physician in the asylum : the historical geography of insanity in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, from the early modern to Victorian eras." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3315/.

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This thesis examines the historical geography of lunacy in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Using a wide variety of sources, the objective is to construct an expansive picture of the manner in which those labelled as “mad” were treated and managed in this peripheral region of mainland Britain, from the Medieval Period to the late-Victorian period. The scope includes Medieval Celtic manuscripts, nineteenth-century folklore collections, Lunacy Commissioners’ reports, Sheriff Court records, asylum case notes and various other documents besides. These sources open windows on a variety of vocabu

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Ebanks, Davin K. "Blue Meridian: The Portraiture of Landscape." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1272900119.

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Miller, Sonja. "A quantitative assessment of Ra'ui (a traditional approach to marine protected areas) on the fishes and invertebrates of Rarotonga, Cook Islands : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Marine Biology /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/819.

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Hsu, Li-Chih. "VISUALIZING BARRIER DUNE TOPOGRAPHIC STATE SPACE AND INFERENCE OF RESILIENCE PROPERTIES." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/63.

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The linkage between barrier island morphologies and dune topographies, vegetation, and biogeomorphic feedbacks, has been examined. The two-fold stability domain (i.e., overwash-resisting and overwash-reinforcing stability domains) model from case studies in a couple of islands along the Georgia Bight and Virginia coast has been proposed to examine the resilience properties in the barrier dune systems. Thus, there is a need to examine geographic variations in the dune topography among and within islands. Meanwhile, previous studies just analyzed and compared dune topographies based on transect-

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Russell, Jr Scot Allan. "Analysis of Fresh Water Resources at the Line Hole Well Field, San Salvador Island, the Bahamas." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/164.

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A major economic constraint in the Bahamas, and other small carbonates islands world-wide, is the lack of fresh water resources. To combat these socio-economic problems on San Salvador Island I sought to gain a more detailed understanding of the extent, behavior, and controls on the island’s fresh-water lens. DC electrical resistivity tomography and time-series geochemical data are used to study the fresh water lens at the Line Hole well field. Electrical Resistivity profiles are used to image the extent of fresh water resources. Time-series geochemical data provide information on the beha

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Dominguez, Segarra Miriam. "Classificació d’imatges de satèl·lit i de dades LiDAR aplicat a l’anàlisi del paisatge d’El Hierro (illes Canàries)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666245.

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La tesi titulada “Classificació d’imatges de satèl·lit i de les dades Lidar aplicat a l’anàlisi del paisatge d’El Hierro”, té per objectiu principal analitzar els canvis de les cobertes del sòl utilitzant diferents satèl·lits i les dades Lidar. Inicialment s’han fet les correccions geomètriques i radiomètriques. Per la primera s’han aplicat les transformacions de polinòmiques de segon i tercer grau. Les correccions radiomètriques han estat de dos tipus: les atmosfèriques i les topogràfiques. El mètode de l’objecte fosc de Chavez (1989) ha estat calculat per la correcció atmosfèrica. En aquest

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Maio, Maria Melquiades Costa. "Ilhas de alto padrão: o caso do Parque dos Príncipes e da Vila São Francisco - SP (1970-2008)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-30042010-094759/.

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Este trabalho em Geografia Urbana enfoca a produção de ilhas de alto padrão de moradia na metrópole paulistana. Trata-se do estudo dos casos do Parque dos Príncipes e da Vila São Francisco; lugares caracterizados por significativo processo de segregação socioespacial voluntária: loteamentos destinados às frações de classe social com elevado poder aquisitivo, cercados por muros. Objetiva-se identificar os principais agentes responsáveis pela produção do espaço urbano nos lugares estudados; analisar suas atuações e entender, no espaço e no tempo, as causas da escolha da sub-região oeste da Regiã

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Vice, President Research Office of the. "Newswire." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2661.

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UBC's research community recently received a significant boost in financial support for five research hubs that will join the Centre for Brain Health as newly appointed national Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR). Two UBC economics professors were recognized with separate Bank of Canada awards: the Research Fellowship 2008 and the Governor's Award. UBC's Brain Research Centre has recevied $25 million from the Province of BC to establish a new facility focused on translational brain research.

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Reilly, Michael Patrick Joseph. "Reading into the past : a historiography of Mangaia in the Cook Islands." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/113880.

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This thesis applies techniques of textual analysis to selected Mangaian historical narratives. By viewing the texts as literary constructions an historian is able to gain a better perspective of the way the narrations were structured and clothed with particular ethnographic and historical textures. The introduction discusses the principal collectors and the ways they represented their work. The first part establishes the bases upon which the Mangaian past was told. Despite the transformations experienced since the arrival of the missions a significant degree of continuity can still be f

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Collins, William T. "Bathymetry and sediments of Ngatangiia Harbour and Muri Lagoon, Rarotonga, Cook Islands /." 1995. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,83788.

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Alexeyeff, Kalissa Anna. "Dancing from the heart : movement, gender and sociality in the Cook Islands." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9529.

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This thesis explores dance through the lens of performance, globalization, gender and postcolonialism. It also relies on contemporary Pacific scholarship to argue about the centrality of active agency in cultural production. Cook Islands dancing is not simply a reflection past and present gendered cultural politics. Throughout, I argue that the mediational power of expressive practices actively produces the modalities through which regional and local identities engage with broader global processes. Dance, I suggest, is a generative process which occupies the hearts, minds and bodies of many Co

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