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Journal articles on the topic "Social change Fiji"
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Young, John. "Development Education and Social Stratification in Fiji." Practicing Anthropology 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 4–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.12.1.b786276kp21365g4.
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The transformation of Pacific Island societies into modern nation states necessarily involves change from a subsistence economy to an industrial mode of production. Development education will play an important role in the success or failure of efforts to industrialize in the training of an indigenous group of business managers and bureaucrats. These individuals must be given a practical understanding of western economics and organizational forms which may be adapted to the needs of their societies and serve in turn to instruct others. The knowledge that they gain often will be applied in traditional cultural contexts that require careful assessment and consideration. In particular, existing social hierarchies may be threatened by change and become a hindrance to knowledge transfer, thus diminishing the chances for carrying out successful development efforts.
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Howard, Michael C. "State power and political change in Fiji." Journal of Contemporary Asia 21, no. 1 (January 1991): 78–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472339180000081.
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Agnew-Blais, J., A. E. Becker, and S. Gilman. "Rapid social change, violence, and suicidality among adolescent girls in Fiji." Comprehensive Psychiatry 51, no. 6 (November 2010): e1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.06.014.
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Johnston, Ingrid. "Disaster management and climate change adaptation: a remote island perspective." Disaster Prevention and Management 23, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-06-2013-0096.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on disaster management and climate change adaptation often left out of the literature – that of a remote outer island in Fiji. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative fieldwork was conducted on a small, remote island in the north of Fiji, during 2012. Interviews with community members on this island looked at their experiences and perceptions of disaster response and aid, and their expectations for the future. The perspectives of government and aid organisations involved in disaster response were compared with the remote community views. Findings – There is a prevalent view in Fiji of communities as having very high expectations of disaster relief aid, and being dependent on it. However, on a remote island where the community counts the wait for help in weeks rather than days, such expectations and dependence must be viewed in a different light. There is much to be learned from the resilience and self-help these communities have no choice but to exhibit. Originality/value – This paper helps to fill a gap in the disaster and climate change adaptation literature, by providing some insight into the experiences and perceptions of a remote outer island community, within the remote small island developing state of Fiji.
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Sattler, David N., James M. Graham, Albert Whippy, Richard Atienza, and James Johnson. "Developing a Climate Change Risk Perception Model in the Philippines and Fiji: Posttraumatic Growth Plays Central Role." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 2 (January 13, 2023): 1518. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021518.
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Background: This two-study paper developed a climate change risk perception model that considers the role of posttraumatic growth (i.e., a reappraisal of life priorities and deeper appreciation of life), resource loss, posttraumatic stress, coping, and social support. Method: In Study 1, participants were 332 persons in the Philippines who experienced Super Typhoon Haiyan. In Study 2, participants were 709 persons in Fiji who experienced Cyclone Winston. Climate change can increase the size and destructive potential of cyclones and typhoons as a result of warming ocean temperatures, which provides fuel for these storms. Participants completed measures assessing resource loss, posttraumatic stress, coping, social support, posttraumatic growth, and climate change risk perception. Results: Structural equation modeling was used to develop a climate change risk perception model with data collected in the Philippines and to confirm the model with data collected in Fiji. The model showed that climate change risk perception was influenced by resource loss, posttraumatic stress, coping activation, and posttraumatic growth. The model developed in the Philippines was confirmed with data collected in Fiji. Conclusions: Posttraumatic growth played a central role in climate change risk perception. Public health educational efforts should focus on vividly showing how climate change threatens life priorities and that which gives life meaning and can result in loss, stress, and hardship. Disaster response organizations may also use this approach to promote preparedness for disaster threats.
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Wahyuni, Hermin Indah, Andi Awaluddin Fitrah, Fitri Handayani, and David Robie. "Ecological communication in Asia-Pacific: A comparative analysis of social adaptation to maritime disaster in Indonesia and Fiji." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 24, no. 1 (July 17, 2018): 12–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v24i1.390.
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This article is of a comparative study of social adaptation in the Cyclone Winston disaster case in Fiji and rob flooding in Semarang, Indonesia. In February 2016, the largest tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere, Cyclone Winston, struck Fiji and caused severe damage and loss of life. Meanwhile, in the last two decades flooding has become an increasingly acute disaster situation in Semarang and the northern coastal region of Java, Indonesia. Communities in the path of both these disasters are the ones who suffer most. Social adaptation is important to consider in these two cases to encourage improved future mitigation and adaptation efforts. Data was collected from interviews and documents in the form of news media articles and previous research reports relevant to tropical disasters and the impact of climate change. The results show that social adaptation to both types of disasters is not identical due to the characteristics of the two different disasters and the different social, economic, political and cultural contexts in Fiji and Indonesia.
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Robie, David, and Sarika Chand. "Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji climate change journalism case study." Pacific Journalism Review 23, no. 1 (July 21, 2017): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.257.
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In February 2016, the Fiji Islands were devastated by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere. The category 5 storm with wind gusts reaching 300 kilometres an hour, left 44 people dead, 45,000 people displaced, 350,000 indirectly affected, and $650 million worth of damage (Climate Council, 2016). In March 2017, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) launched a new 10-year Strategic Plan 2017-2026, which regards climate change as a ‘deeply troubling issue for the environmental, economic, and social viability of Pacific island countries and territories’. In November, Fiji will co-host the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. Against this background, the Pacific Media Centre despatched two neophyte journalists to Fiji for a two-week field trip in April 2016 on a ‘bearing witness’ journalism experiential assignment to work in collaboration with the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) and the Regional Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific. This paper is a case study assessing this climate change journalism project and arguing for the initiative to be funded for a multiple-year period in future and to cover additional Pacific countries, especially those so-called ‘frontline’ climate change states.
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Burley, David V., Karine Taché, Margaret Purser, and Ratu Jone Balenaivalu. "An archaeology of salt production in Fiji." Antiquity 85, no. 327 (February 2011): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00067521.
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The authors report the first exposure of prehistoric salt-working in the Pacific, one that used solar evaporation of sea water on large flanged clay dishes. This short-lived industry of the seventh century AD disappeared beneath the dunes, but its documented nineteenth- and twentieth-century successors offer it many useful analogies: the salt, now extracted by boiling brine, was supplied to inland communities upriver, where it functioned as a prime commodity for prestige and trade and an agent of social change.
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Dagmar, Hans. "Cooperative Artisanal Fishing on Rabi Island, Fiji." Practicing Anthropology 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 6–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.12.1.23565x7k31188658.
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This is an unfinished story. It deals with an artisanal fishing project, jointly planned by a local political-administrative body, the Rabi Council of Leaders, and this anthropologist. The project presently is in an early stage of implementation. While it is recognized that the social, economic, and political situation in which the project is embedded is important to understanding it, at present I will focus on the relevance of the local context since it was at this level that the project initially suffered a severe setback. (See also Dagmar's article "Banabans in Fiji: Ethnicity, Change and Development," in Ethnicity and Nation-building in the Pacific, M. C. Howard, ed. [Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1989].)
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Saxton, Kate. "Privileging participation in the Pacific: Researcher reflections." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 30, no. 4 (June 17, 2019): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol30iss4id606.
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This researcher reflection examines the challenges faced in using participatory action research (PAR) as a methodology when researching social work in Fiji. PAR allows for disadvantaged groups to engage in research and social action as a means to address inequity. However, PAR relies on people’s ability and desire to participate in this process of change. The epistemological roots of PAR are well suited to Western notions of democracy and power, conflicting with how society operates within Fiji. This reflection examines some of the challenges faced in conducting PAR due to this cultural clash. In conducting this research, the researcher was forced to engage in deep and, at times, confronting, reflections about identity and positionality as both a critical social worker and researcher. By using a PAR approach as the starting point for research design and implementation, the research not only failed to empower Fijian social workers but at times replicated a form of neo-colonialism.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social change Fiji"
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Takahashi, Ryo. "Habitus and social change in Fiji." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4919/.
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This thesis aims to analyse social process in Fiji, with reference to Bourdieu, Giddens, Sahlins, Thomas and Toren. We can find quite peculiar characteristics in phases of Hie distinction derived Som a criterion of "urban / rural" in Fiji. There is a considerable contrast in the standard of living, lifestyle, economic system, ritual institution and values between urban and rural sphere. Taking account of the events in Waidracia village in Naitasiri Province and in Nasilai village in Rewa Province, in which the author had conducted his fieldwork, the tradition in Fiji is examined. The indigenous people, encountering various kinds of "objects", "ideas", "situations" and "acts", would objectify such circumstances in their own practical senses to make practices. There could occur some deviations or differentiae in their practices. As a result, some "objects", "ideas", "situations" and "acts" will persist, while others might be innovated It depends on the interaction among the agents' practices whether the tradition is persisted or innovated. Social process is understood as the accumulation of the agents' practices. The individual embodies various numbers of "distinctions", which depend on his or her position in society. Distinction provides the individual with a certain habitus. The individual as an independent agent chooses his or her own "purposive acts", led by the "practical sense" derived from habitus. On the other hand, we can construct a conceptual idea of "sphere", in which certain "purposiveness" is shared. Field research shows there is a common "spheric purposiveness" in a sphere, and the thesis examines how the forms of the practices yielded by the individuals in the sphere converge. The particular tendency of practices will reflect on the reproduction of individual habitus. Simultaneously, the individual habitus is also reproduced and transformed through the interactions between practices in different spheres.
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Klaassen, André. "Planning for Sustainable Development in Fiji: indigenous knowledge, Western knowledge, or something in between?" Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-286118.
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Climate change poses paramount challenges to our world. While more developed nations in the West are not without harm, among the hardest hit are vulnerable indigenous islanders in the South Pacific. Without sufficient action, Pacific Island nations might become uninhabitable, or practically disappear, in the near future (Belson, 2018). To manage the crisis, leaders across the world have united under supranational agreements in efforts to provide development assistance. In Fiji, this has resulted in an international development campaign anchored in Western ideals, often embracing technocentric and hard engineering solutions. To manage the climate crisis in an indigenous Fijian context, this work argues that sustainable development efforts must embrace indigenous knowledge, and that planning, and planners, can play a crucial part. Through diary entries and fieldnotes, I invite the reader on my journey through Fiji to explore current adaption and mitigation efforts, examine their impact on the indigenous Fijian way of life (bula vakavanua), and propose a way for planning and planners to embrace alternative notions of sustainability in development. As a result, this work promotes development that not only safeguards indigenous land, but the values and traditions under which indigenous land is governed.
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Sjösvärd, Nathalie, and Julia Björkdahl. "Community Resilience and the Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Republic of Fiji : A qualitative field study on Mudu Village’s ability to recover from natural disasters." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75687.
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The ability to recover from the effects of climate change among communities is acknowledged in previous research, where focus is laid on disaster recovery through adaptive capacities and resilience. The objective of this study was to investigate a rural community’s ability to cope with natural disasters in in the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, by using the case of Mudu Village in Koro Island, Fiji. The data was based on observations through an ethnographically inspired approach, as well as 20 semistructured interviews with residents in Mudu Village and other relevant stakeholders. The study was based upon the characteristics of the concept of community resilience, which allowed for deeper understanding of disaster recovery and coping mechanisms among rural communities exposed to natural disasters. The result of the thesis has showed that disaster preparedness and social support systems within the community has increased due to the experience from past recovery processes. By using the concept of community resilience, it has further become clear that the dependence on natural resources has decreased the capacity to cope with and recover from natural disasters in Mudu Village, which thus constitutes the main hindrance to community resilience.
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Ewins, Alistair Roderick (Rory). "Tradition, politics, and change in contemporary Fiji and Tonga." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109584.
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The subject of 'the politics of tradition' has attracted increasing attention in Pacific
islands studies over recent years, particularly from historians and anthropologists. The
contemporary politics of Fiji and Tonga are considered to be particularly significant in
this regard: Fiji has experienced the reinforcement of chiefly politics since its 1987 coup;
and in Tonga, calls for democracy have presented a challenge to traditional authority for
over a decade. This study draws on interviews conducted in 1993 with sixty people
involved in government and politics in Fiji and Tonga (among them Ratu Sir Kamisese
Mara, Bishop Patelesio Finau, and 'Akilisi Pohiva) to compare the issues tradition raises
for politics in both countries, and thereby to demonstrate the importance of considering
matters of tradition within political science.
The study examines the concept of tradition, its interaction with the contemporary
politics of Fijians and Tongans, and the forces for change affecting tradition and politics.
It is argued that debates about 'the invention of tradition' and questions of authenticity in
tradition, while useful, have diverted attention from the need for theories about how
tradition works. The theories of the mind of neurobiologist Gerald Edelman are then
used to advance one such theory: that tradition should be seen as a system of group
knowledge subject to evolutionary change - change driven by a selectionary process
involving individuals' thought-processes. Further discussion explains how this process
gives rise to political conflict and hence is of importance to political science.
The role of tradition in contemporary government and other political processes in
Fiji and Tonga is then examined. Two major social forces, it is argued, are currently
influencing and changing Fijians' and Tongans' traditions and politics: education and
money. A third force, the media, is becoming increasingly influential. These forces and
others are examined, along with the sites for change in which they are at work. Land,
indigenous rights, language, ceremony, provincialism, urban/rural divisions, race
relations, religion and the family are all discussed within this framework.
Finally, the study notes the useful parallels of this discussion of tradition and
politics with discussions of postmodernism, particularly those of Walter Truett Anderson
and pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty, and how some Fijians and Tongans could be
said to have embraced a postmodern worldview. It outlines other matters of interest to
political scientists which might be better understood in the context of tradition, and notes
how Edmund Burke viewed the politics of his day in this light two centuries ago.
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Qalo, Ropate Rakuita. "Indigenous politics in the governance of Fiji : the case of forestry." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/129396.
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Indigenous Fijian politics in the modem world has been bewildering to many besides
indigenous Fijians themselves. Fijians want to change to the modem world and
simultaneously they are held back giving the impression that they do not want to .
This thesis seeks to provide an explanation as to why it seems difficult for ethnic
Fijians to change so as to accelerate social, economic and political development in
their quest for change. in the process it chooses to view Fijian politics and changes
through the forest industry.
The thesis argues that only by embracing and internalizing a legal/rational authority
will positive change and development of Fijian indigenes accelerate. Traditional
authority which dominates the Fijians' world is traced historically through the forest
industry together with dominant ideas, agents, events, industries and actors
involved.
The study is heterodoxical and eclectic, selecting data from fieldwork and
documentary sources. Conceptual tools for this work are drawn from numerous
disciplines besides politics: anthropology, philosophy, history, geography and
forestry.
Weber, and other scholars' work relating to Weber's monumental work, provide the
basis of analyses. The base of indigenous authority and legitimation of force is
established in the analyses. This is followed by an examination of the ideology of the
'Paramountcy of Fijian Interests' which serves as a legitimating factor for Fijian
leaders. The case of forestry illustrates the historical and present impact of tradition al
authority in the three models of nattrral, corporate and extension forest sectors. These
units also represent private, national and communal types . Their history,
management, and the dominant basis of legitimation are discussed and analysed from
fieldwork and documentary data. The data includes personal researches since 1984,
which are presented as appendicies. The process enables the examination of the
Fijian power base and traditional authority simultaneously highlighting Fijian politics
in the three Forestry types and in general. Forestry provides a window on the
methodology adopted to examine the dominant base of authority in the governance of
the country.
In short the thesis illustrates the impact of the dominance of traditional authority in .
the governanc.e of Fiji in general and in forestry in particular. -It highlights various ' "
weaknesses in the change and development desired by Fijians in general and forestry "
in particular. For an accelerated development a more basic change has to be put in
motion. That change is in allowing government to seriously apply a predominantly
legaVrational authority demanded internationally allowinK proper control and good
government in Fiji through a less dominant traditional base of authority.
Books on the topic "Social change Fiji"
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(Fiji), Citizens' Constitutional Forum, ed. Squatters in Fiji: The need for an attitudinal change. [Suva, Fiji]: Citizens' Constitutional Forum, 2007.
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Barr, Kevin J. Squatters in Fiji: The need for an attitudinal change. [Suva, Fiji]: Citizens' Constitutional Forum, 2007.
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Changes in latitude: An uncommon anthropology. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.
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Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Presterudstuen, Geir Henning. Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Varawa, Joana McIntyre. Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology. Harpercollins, 1990.
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Varawa, Joana McIntyre. Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology. Harpercollins, 1990.
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Marca La Diferencia Identifica El Problema, Fija Tu Posicion, Actua Basado En Ella y Cambia El Estado de Las Cosas. Taller del Exito, 2014.
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Popadyuk, Tatyana, Saidkhror Gulyamov, and Sharafutdin Khashimkhodzhaev, eds. IX INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “MANAGERIAL SCIENCES IN THE MODERN WORLD”. EurAsian Scientific Editions, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56948/zajh8343.
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On 9 November 2021, 9th International Scientific-Practical Conference “Managerial Sciences in the Modern World” was opened. This year, the event took place in the online format because of the strained epidemiological situation. A total of about 450 specialists took part in the conference. “Managerial Sciences” has already become a kind of brand, with more than half a dozen different round table discussions, sections”, said Arkady Trachuk, Dean of the Faculty “Higher School of Management” at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, who moderated the plenary session. He said that the 2021 conference participants included representatives from Latvia, Republic of Fiji, Kuwait, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Russia was represented by seven regions: Moscow and Moscow Region, Bryansk-, Tver-, Saratov-, Arkhangelsk regions, Republic of Tatarstan and Krasnodar Territory. Delegates from 25 universities, including 6 foreign higher educational establishments, took part in the sections’ work. The central event of the first day of the conference was a plenary session during which presentations were delivered by representatives of Germany, Slovenia, Uzbekistan and Russia. The plenary session was opened by Arkady Trachuk. His presentation focused on the goals of introducing digital technologies in the Russian industry. The speaker presented the results of the research implemented by a team of scholars from the Department of Management and Innovation at the Faculty “Higher School of Management”. Alexander Brem, Head of Technological Entrepreneurship and Digitalisation at Stifterverband Consulting Company funded by Daimler Foundation (Germany), talked about artificial intelligence as an innovation management technology. The expert is convinced that artificial intelligence will become the core technology to drive the technological development in the 21st century. Jörg Geisler, head of Finance and Risk Management at S-Kreditpartner GmbH, expert on consumer lending at savings banks (Germany), dwelled on an important subject – “Risk management at times of digital innovation” by the example of the banking industry. Samo Bobek, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at the University of Maribor, Professor of e-business and information management (Slovenia), delivered a presentation on “Digital transformation impact on business models”. His presentation dealt with digital transformation of business models. Azizjon Bobojonov, Head of International Project Office, Associate Professor of the Department “Digital Economy and Information Technologies” at Tashkent State University of Economics (Republic of Uzbekistan), talked in his presentation “Reinventing the services in the digital age” about new discoveries in the service industry in the epoch of digital transformation. The plenary session was followed by thematic sessions in the following areas: • Change management and leadership • Business strategies and sustainable development • International management and business • Theoretical issues of management • Theory and practice of project management • Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility • Operations and business process management • Strategic financial management • Public sector management and efficiency problems • Major cities and urban agglomerations management • Real sector investment management • Crisis and business continuity management • Systems analysis in management • Knowledge and talent management • Sports digitalisation management • Digital marketing and marketing communications • Shaping innovation strategy in the conditions of the fourth industrial revolution.
Book chapters on the topic "Social change Fiji"
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Vakaoti, Patrick. "Young People’s Constitutional Submissions in Fiji—Opportunities and Challenges." In Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South, 239–54. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3750-5_16.
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Ruggieri, Beatrice. "Moving to higher ground: Planning for relocation as an adaptation strategy to climate change in the Fiji Islands." In Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice, 113–26. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003141457-9.
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Naidu, Vijay. "Social Change and the Survival of Neo-Tradition in Fiji." In Social Change in the Pacific Islands, 134–200. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315788548-5.
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Goundar, Sam, and Subhash Appana. "Mainstreaming Development Policies for Climate Change in Fiji." In Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies, 1–31. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1607-1.ch001.
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Fiji is a Party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to the Kyoto Protocol. This chapter examines the development policies implemented since ratifying these agreements to mitigate greenhouse gas and carbon emissions. This includes an analysis of Fiji's effort in mitigating climate change issues by “mainstreaming” - an operational approach for making development more sustainable. A country's use of renewable energy sources is a good indicator of its efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas and carbon emissions. Fiji's renewable energy projects and agricultural sector are examined. Identification is made of the gaps in development policies that take control of climate change issues with the process of mainstreaming. Suggestions are provided to close the gaps. ICT (information communications technology) has a critical role to mitigate the impacts of climate change by advancing renewable energy efforts and reducing emissions. Social media is now widely used to inform and educate about sustainable development efforts and to address broader development challenges.
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Havea, Peni Hausia. "Promoting Peace Through Climate Change Adaptation." In Research Anthology on Environmental and Societal Impacts of Climate Change, 1476–503. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch073.
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Climate change has affected people's peace in the form of impact on livelihoods, health, and/or well-being. Most of these peace impacts, however, are felt significantly by people who are living in the low-lying communities in the Pacific, who are within and/or close to the Ring of Fire. This chapter is based on a study of peace and climate change adaptation that was conducted in the Pacific island region in 2016. It took place in five communities in Suva, Fiji: Vatuwaqa, Raiwaqa, Raiwai, Samabula, and Toorak. It highlights the impact of climate change on peace, and then it indicated how peace can be promoted in the form of climate change adaptation for these communities. Based on the results of this research, the author recommends that peace should be incorporated into the Pacific islands national adaptation plan.
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Sen, Saurabh, and Ruchi L. Sen. "An Empirical Analysis of FII Movement and Currency Value in India." In Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change, 207–17. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7470-7.ch014.
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India opened its stock market to foreign investors in September 1992 and has received portfolio investment from foreigners in the form of foreign institutional investment in equities and other markets including derivatives. It has emerged as one of the most influential groups to play a critical role in the overall performance of the Indian economy. The liberalization of FII flows into the Indian capital market since 1993 has had a significant impact on the economy. With increased volatility in exchange rate and to mitigate the risk arising out of excess volatility, currency futures were introduced in India in 2008, which is considered a second important structural change. This chapter examines the impact of the Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) on the exchange rate and analyzes the relationship between FII and Indian Rupee-US Dollar exchange rates.
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Sand, Christophe. "The Abandonment of Alofi Island (Western Polynesia) before Missionary Times." In Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054759.003.0003.
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Although early contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries between Europeans and Pacific Islanders have been well documented from historical data, the possible local impacts on Oceanians have rarely been analyzed in any detail. Indigenous oral traditions and archaeology appear today as primary sources that complement the information from written records related to “discovery” expeditions and missionary-colonial testimonies. This chapter proposes to synthesize the data at hand on the Island of Alofi. Facing Futuna in Western Polynesia and known to have experienced a multi-millennia human settlement, the Island of Alofi was devoid of permanent occupation at the arrival of the French Missionaries in 1837. Relying on different sources, I will make the case of a probable first early-population collapse due primarily to the consequences of their first encounter, in 1616, with the Dutch expedition of Le Maire and Schouten. An alternative scenario of the recent History of the Archipelago will be proposed, revising the orthodox mainstream publications on the subject. The regional as well as global outcomes of this proposal are far-reaching as they impact our understanding of political changes in the Fiji-West Polynesian triangle as well as question the relevance of anthropological categories used in social reconstructions.
Conference papers on the topic "Social change Fiji"
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Catini, Raffaella. "La territorializzazione spontanea del centro storico: il caso di Viterbo." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Roma: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8033.
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Lo studio qui proposto ha preso l’avvio da due eventi fondamentali per lo sviluppo urbanistico
della città di Viterbo, nessuno dei quali possiamo dire costituisca la conseguenza di una politica
urbana di indirizzo.
Il primo ha decretato, a partire dagli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso, lo spopolamento e il
progressivo degrado del centro storico a seguito del vero e proprio esodo verso i nuovi
insediamenti di edilizia economica e popolare e soprattutto verso le innumerevoli ville, costruite
facendole passare per fabbricati rurali, nelle zone agricole a ridosso della città; il secondo,
tuttora in atto, registra una tendenza opposta in virtù dei mutamenti profondi occorsi nel tessuto
sociale e della mutata situazione economica.
Le scarse disponibilità economiche hanno reso infatti nuovamente appetibili, da parte di nuovi
fruitori con scarse possibilità economiche, i numerosi immobili del centro rimasti liberi e in
cattive condizioni di manutenzione, dapprima senza operare alcuna alterazione nel tessuto
edilizio esistente; quindi è iniziata un’operazione sistematica di portata ben diversa, mirata alla
trasformazione in unità abitative minime dei locali situati al livello stradale adibiti un tempo a
magazzini e cantine.
Esigenze differenti di persone differenti hanno indotto una nuova territorializzazione della città
storica. Resta da capire in che misura questo processo sia stato previsto o valutato, e se la
costituzione di un tessuto sociale così omogeneo nella struttura possa considerarsi
positivamente ai fini del riequilibrio socio-economico complessivo, di cui il problema edilizioabitativo
rappresenta solo uno degli aspetti The aim of this paper is to reflect on two major trends concerning the urban development of the
city of Viterbo, neither of which appears to stem from a precise urban policy.
The first one was the depopulation and progressive decline of the ancient city centre caused by
the relocation of the inhabitants towards the new council housing settlements and especially
towards the countless new villas, originally intended as farm houses on agricultural land
adjacent to the city.
The second one, still ongoing, is an opposite trend, the result of profound changes in the social
fabric of the society and of the present economic stagnation. Many unoccupied and neglected
houses and flats in the city centre are appealing to people with limited financial means, in spite
of the lack of upgrading. In addition, basements and cellars are being converted into actual
housing units.
The needs of the abovementioned people have triggered a new territorialisation of the historic
centre. It is yet to be determined to what extent this phenomenon has been contemplated and understood, and whether the rise of such a uniform social fabric should be construed as positive
for the general socioeconomic balance, of which the housing issue is only one of the factors.