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Pacific Dynamics is an online open access journal published by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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      • Executive Summary
      • Chapter 1: Introducing the Pacific Ocean Climate Change Assessment (POCCA) Project
      • Chapter 2: Framing Climate Science in the Pacific Islands
      • Chapter 3: Climate Change and Ocean Governance in the Pacific: Challenges of Sovereignty and Political Agency
      • Chapter 4: Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks – A Stocktake of Current Status
      • Chapter 5 : We are the Moana’ : Climate Risks, Narratives of Vulnerability and Indigenous Pacific Resilience
      • Chapter 6: Pacific Agency and Perceptions of Climate Crisis: Empowering the People’s Narratives
      • Chapter 7: Solwara, Moana, Ocean and Local Communities – The Social, Cultural and Economic Connections
      • Chapter 8: Safeguarding Biodiversity through Indigenous and Local Knowledge for Climate Change Resilience
      • Chapter 9: Thirst for Life: Water Security and Changing Climate in the Pacific
      • Chapter 10: Safe Livelihoods & Social Protection in the Climate Crisis
      • Chapter 11: COVID-19, Community Health, and Mitigating Climate Crisis
      • Chapter 12: Climate Crisis and Food Security in Pacific Island Countries and Territories
      • Chapter 13: Climate Crisis, Geopolitical Vulnerability, Transnational Crime and Mitigating Responses
      • Chapter 14: Loss and Damage: Save the Pacific, Save the World
      • Chapter 15: Climate Change and Impacts on Socio-Economic and Infrastructural Development
      • Chapter 16: Climate Crisis and Cultural Heritage: Conversations
      • Chapter 17: To Move or Not to Move: Climate Mobilities in the Pacific
      • Chapter 18: Climate Finance and Carbon Market: Implications on Local Communities in the Pacific
      • Chapter 19: Concluding Remarks
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    • Remembering Epeli Hau’ofa His Life and Legacy
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Editor Teams:


NameInstitution
Professor AiriniThomson Rivers University, Canada
Associate Professor Amy FletcherUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr. Anna PowlesMassey University, New Zealand
Professor Bronwyn Mary HaywardUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr. Collin TukuitongaUniversity of Auckland
Dr. David GegeoSolomon Islands National University
Professor David RobieAuckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Professor Jioji RavuloUniversity of Sydney
Professor Jonathan FraenkelVictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Associate Professor Jenny Bryant-TokalauUniversity of Otago, New Zealand
Associate Professor Jane BuckinghamUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Associate Professor Joeli VeitayakiUniversity of the South Pacific, Fiji
Associate Professor Kabini SangaVictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr. Kelly DombroskiUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Michaeline CrichlowDuke University, USA
Professor Nii-K PlangeFiji National University
Dr. Nicole GeorgeUniversity of Queensland, Australia
Professor Paul MillarUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Peggy Faibairn-DunlopAuckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Dr. Piers LockeUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr. Radomir CompelUniversity of Nagasaki, Japan
Dr. Robert NicoleUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Serge TcherkezoffAustralian National University, Australia
Professor Stephanie LawsonMacquarie University, Australia
Professor Sudesh MishraUniversity of the South Pacific, Fiji
Associate Professor Sinclair DinnenAustralian National University, Australia
Dr. Semir Al WardiUniversity of French Polynesia, French Polynesia
Dr. Sina EmdeUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Tara RossUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Vijay NaiduUniversity of the South Pacific, Fiji
Professor Yvonne Underhill-SemUniversity of Auckland, New Zealand
Associate Professor Yvonne Crichton-HillUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand

Chair of the Editorial Board: Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Editor: Dr. Robert Nicole, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Secretariat: Holly Neave

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Last issues of the Pacific Dynamics Journal

Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2024

Volume 7 Issue 1 March 2023

Volume 6 Issue 2 September 2022

Volume 6 Issue 1 March 2022

Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2021

Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2020

Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2020

Volume 3 Issue 1 August 2019

Volume 2 Number 2 November 2018

Volume 2 Number 1 June 2018

Volume 1 Number 2 November 2017

Volume 1 Number 1 July 2017

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