Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme
Publication Year:
1999
Publication Place
?
Physical Description:
65 p. ; 29 cm
Call Number
PAC
Relevant Countries
Pacific Region
Language
English
Record ID:
16840
Legacy PEIN ID:
56746
General Notes
Kept in IW collection
Subject Heading(s)
Ecosystems - Conservation - Oceania
Abstract
The Pacific region is unique,not because its geographical, biological, sociological and economic characteristics are found exclusively here, but because of the combination of these characteristics within the region. This region is characterized by small-land masses dispersed over 5.8 per cent of the Earth's surface; a high degree of ecosystem and species diversity; an extraordinary level of endemicity; a high degree of economic and cultural dependence on the natural environment; vulnerability to a wide range of natural and environmental disasters and a diversity of cultures and languages, traditional practices and customs focused on the marine and coastal environment.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme
Publication Year:
1999
Publication Place
?
Physical Description:
65 p. ; 29 cm
Call Number
PAC
Relevant Countries
Pacific Region
Language
English
Record ID:
16840
Legacy PEIN ID:
56746
General Notes
Kept in IW collection
Record Created: 02-Mar-2001
Record Modified: 02-Mar-2021