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Nunn PD, Kumar R (2019b) Measuring peripherality as a proxy for autonomous community coping
capacity: a case study from Bua Province, Fiji Islands, for improving climate change adaptation.
Soc Sci 8:225
Nunn PD, McNamara KE (2019) Failing adaptation in island contexts: the growing need for transformational change. In: Klock C, Fink M (eds) Dealing with climate change on small islands:
towards effective and sustainable adaptation. Gottingen University Press, Gottingen, pp 19–44
Nunn PD, Mulgrew K, Scott-Parker B, Hine DW, Marks ADG, Mahar D, Maebuta J (2016) Spirituality and attitudes towards nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change
adaptation. Clim Change 136(3–4):477–493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1646-9
Nunn PD, Kohler A, Kumar R (2017) Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change
attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia,
Northwest Pacific Ocean. J Coast Conserv 21(6):719–730
Rubow C, Bird C (2016) Eco-theological Responses to climate change in Oceania. Worldviews
20:150–168
Taylor M, McGregor A, Dawson B (2016) Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry
to climate change. Pacific Community, Noumea
Terry JP, Lau AYA (2018) Magnitudes of nearshore waves generated by tropical cyclone Winston,
the strongest landfalling cyclone in South Pacific records. Unprecedented or unremarkable? Sed
Geol 364:276–285
Ward RG (1989) Earth’s empty quarter—the Pacific Islands in a Pacific century. Geogr J 155:235–
246
Winch-Dummett C (2010) Christianity and cultural reconfigurations in South West Pentecost.
Oceania 80(1):78–101
Winkler H, Depledge J (2018) Fiji-in-Bonn: will the ‘Talanoa spirit’ prevail? Clim Policy 18(2):141–
145
WMO (2020) WMO statement on the state of the global climate in 2019. World Meteorological
Organization, Geneva
Patrick D. Nunn is Professor of Geography at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland, Australia). For more than thirty years, his research has focused on climate change issues
in the Pacific Islands, understanding past and (likely) future human-climate interactions and their
implications for coastal livelihoods. This work has seen the publication of several books including
Oceanic Islands (Blackwell, 1994) and Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific (Elsevier,
2007) and more than 320 peer-reviewed publications. A long involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) led to Patrick sharing its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; Patrick
was a lead author on the chapter about ‘Sea Level Change’ in the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report
and is currently a lead author on the chapter about ‘Small Islands’ for its 6th Assessment. Another
of Patrick’s research interests focuses on ancient understandings of coastal-environmental change
and how these have been culturally filtered and encoded in narrative and myth. This research was
laid out in his books, Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific (University of Hawaii,
2009) and The Edge of Memory (Bloomsbury, 2018), and led to the award (with linguist Nick
Reid) by the Geographical Society of New South Wales of the Best Paper 2016 in the journal
Australian Geographer and in 2018 the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. His new book, due out from Bloomsbury in August 2021, is Worlds in Shadow: Submerged
Lands in Science, Memory and Myth. He has an active website at www.patricknunn.org.
Johannes M.Luetz (BA/USA, MBA/Germany, Ph.D./Australia) is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at
the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in the School of Social Sciences, where he also
completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Policy and Management) into human climate migration. His
Ph.D. research has featured in national news and documentaries [Bolivia; Bangladesh; Maldives].
Dr. Luetz has consulted extensively for World Vision International on research projects raising
awareness of the growing effects of climate change on vulnerable communities in Asia Pacific,
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Nunn PD, Kumar R (2019b) Measuring peripherality as a proxy for autonomous community coping
capacity: a case study from Bua Province, Fiji Islands, for improving climate change adaptation.
Soc Sci 8:225
Nunn PD, McNamara KE (2019) Failing adaptation in island contexts: the growing need for transformational change. In: Klock C, Fink M (eds) Dealing with climate change on small islands:
towards effective and sustainable adaptation. Gottingen University Press, Gottingen, pp 19–44
Nunn PD, Mulgrew K, Scott-Parker B, Hine DW, Marks ADG, Mahar D, Maebuta J (2016) Spirituality and attitudes towards nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change
adaptation. Clim Change 136(3–4):477–493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1646-9
Nunn PD, Kohler A, Kumar R (2017) Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change
attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia,
Northwest Pacific Ocean. J Coast Conserv 21(6):719–730
Rubow C, Bird C (2016) Eco-theological Responses to climate change in Oceania. Worldviews
20:150–168
Taylor M, McGregor A, Dawson B (2016) Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry
to climate change. Pacific Community, Noumea
Terry JP, Lau AYA (2018) Magnitudes of nearshore waves generated by tropical cyclone Winston,
the strongest landfalling cyclone in South Pacific records. Unprecedented or unremarkable? Sed
Geol 364:276–285
Ward RG (1989) Earth’s empty quarter—the Pacific Islands in a Pacific century. Geogr J 155:235–
246
Winch-Dummett C (2010) Christianity and cultural reconfigurations in South West Pentecost.
Oceania 80(1):78–101
Winkler H, Depledge J (2018) Fiji-in-Bonn: will the ‘Talanoa spirit’ prevail? Clim Policy 18(2):141–
145
WMO (2020) WMO statement on the state of the global climate in 2019. World Meteorological
Organization, Geneva
Patrick D. Nunn is Professor of Geography at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland, Australia). For more than thirty years, his research has focused on climate change issues
in the Pacific Islands, understanding past and (likely) future human-climate interactions and their
implications for coastal livelihoods. This work has seen the publication of several books including
Oceanic Islands (Blackwell, 1994) and Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific (Elsevier,
2007) and more than 320 peer-reviewed publications. A long involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) led to Patrick sharing its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; Patrick
was a lead author on the chapter about ‘Sea Level Change’ in the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report
and is currently a lead author on the chapter about ‘Small Islands’ for its 6th Assessment. Another
of Patrick’s research interests focuses on ancient understandings of coastal-environmental change
and how these have been culturally filtered and encoded in narrative and myth. This research was
laid out in his books, Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific (University of Hawaii,
2009) and The Edge of Memory (Bloomsbury, 2018), and led to the award (with linguist Nick
Reid) by the Geographical Society of New South Wales of the Best Paper 2016 in the journal
Australian Geographer and in 2018 the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. His new book, due out from Bloomsbury in August 2021, is Worlds in Shadow: Submerged
Lands in Science, Memory and Myth. He has an active website at www.patricknunn.org.
Johannes M.Luetz (BA/USA, MBA/Germany, Ph.D./Australia) is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at
the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in the School of Social Sciences, where he also
completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Policy and Management) into human climate migration. His
Ph.D. research has featured in national news and documentaries [Bolivia; Bangladesh; Maldives].
Dr. Luetz has consulted extensively for World Vision International on research projects raising
awareness of the growing effects of climate change on vulnerable communities in Asia Pacific,