Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index. |
Contents |
Ch. 1. A Pleasant Island -- Ch. 2. Progress Comes to Nauru -- Ch. 3. Nauru's Shadow -- Ch. 4. Living the Myths -- Ch. 5. Science as Story -- Ch. 6. To Love a Cockroach -- Ch. 7. The Market: Master or Servant? -- Ch. 8. The Chimera of Reality. |
Summary |
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sustainable development -- Nauru.
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Sustainable development. |
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Nauru. |
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Environmental economics -- Nauru.
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Environmental economics. |
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Nauru -- History -- 20th century. |
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Nauru -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Gowdy, John M.
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Other Form: |
Print version: McDaniel, Carl N., 1942- Paradise for sale. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520222296 (DLC) 99012829 (OCoLC)40776718 |
ISBN |
9780520924451 (electronic book) |
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0520924452 (electronic book) |
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0585274347 (electronic book) |
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9780585274348 (electronic book) |
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0520222296 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520218647 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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