The islands of the Pacific region hold three of the 35 global biodiversity hotspots with large
numbers of endemic species. Global climate change will exacerbate the challenges faced …

With the continuous penetration of global networking and post-industrialism, the island rural
spatial evolution becomes an important issue in comprehensive geography. Studying the …

Market prices of seafood underpin harvest and management strategies for fisheries and
aquaculture. Beche-de-mer (processed, dried sea cucumbers) are highly valued in Asian …

Climate change will increase the unpredictability, magnitude, and frequency of both slow
and rapid onset disaster events. Although large-scale engineered interventions have been …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …

Sedimentation and overfishing are important local stressors on coral reefs that can
independently result in declines in coral recruitment and shifts to algal-dominated states …

Resource management and conservation interventions are increasingly embracing social–
ecological systems (SES) concepts. While SES frameworks recognize the connectedness of …

Palau has a rich heritage of conservation that has evolved from the traditional moratoria on
fishing, or “bul”, to more western Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), while still retaining …

Island human activities damage the natural ecosystem with unique functions and support the
social ecosystem for human survival and living. Identifying, quantifying, and spatially …

Island ecosystems are susceptible to the considerable impacts of increasing human
activities, landscape reconstruction, and urban expansion, resulting in changes in the …