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Help us continue vital work in sustainable development and poverty reductionSouth Pacific Futures: Oceania Toward 2050
Anthony Van Fossen - NEW RELEASE
South Pacific Futures: Oceania Toward 2050 is a must-have book for any serious student, policy maker or concerned citizen of the Pacific Islands. It is the first comprehensive survey of expert views of the region, as it approaches the uncertain prospects of the next half century.
The book presents a wonderful and enlightening range of detailed knowledge, a kaleidoscope of the future. This multilayered vision systematically blends accounts of the coming population, environment, politics, economy, aid, tourism, culture, media and information technology in the South Pacific.
Will Pacific Islands accept the challenge of globalization or will they suffer doomsday?
Will a new spirit among the people of Oceania lead to their empowerment?
Will the South Pacific become even more trapped in webs of dependency?
Will migration and aid integrate the Islands into the Pacific Rim on terms agreeable to all?
Will Islanders have to make crucial ethical decisions in the fact of the growing Asianisation of their region?
These are the questions defining the five scenarios that this clearly written and readable book examines.
Anthony van Fossen is Senior Lecturer in the Social Sciences at Griffith University and a member of the Griffith Asia Institute in Brisbane, Australia. He has published extensively about the Pacific Islands.
South Pacific Futures: Oceania Toward 2050 builds on conversations at the Brisbane Dialogue: South Pacific Futures organized by The Foundation for Development Cooperation in November 2000.
Price: A$45 plus postage and handling
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