The French-Speaking Pacific: Population, environment and development issues Edited by CHRISTIAN JOST Brisbane: Boombana Publications, 1998 (272 pages, 243 x 174 mm, PB, ill., ISBN 1 876542 02 0)

This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the geography of the Pacific Island countries. It consists of a series of studies on the French-speaking Pacific Territories (Vanuatu, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna), the greater part of which are the fruit of entirely new and original work. It then both constitutes an in depth presentation of these territories, their particularities, their problems, and contains much food for thought in its analyses of the natural (terrestrial and marine) and the human (socio-cultural and economic) environments of these islands.

French research on the Island Pacific has long been substantial and often of exceptionally high quality. It has markedly been transformed by the appearance, in the 1980s and 1990s, of a new generation of Pacific geographers whose scholarship has developed within the Islands themselves rather than having been transposed from other parts of the tropical world.

This is a key publication for geographers, a unique resource for teachers, a reference for all those concerned with the question of effectively managing the future of the Pacific Islands. It will also prove invaluable to professionals in many fields who have research, cultural or trade interests in the region. For the general public, it is a much needed complement to commonly available tourist-oriented presentations of the Islands.

The articles are copiously illustrated with maps, original diagrams and photographs.

CONTENTS

Vanuatu, independent country of the French-speaking Pacific
by Gilbert DAVID (ORSTOM, Montpellier)

The French Pacific Territories
by Emmanuel VIGNERON (Prof. of Geography, Univ. Montpellier)

Environmental Constraints and Issues in the French Pacific Territories
by Christian JOST (Univ. Francaise du Pacifique, New Caledonia)

The Physical Characteristics of New Caledonia
by Bernard CAPECCHI (ITFM, Noumea)

New Caledonia from the Human Angle: a historical and geographical approach to its cultural, demographic, economic and political realities
by Jean-Pierre DOUMENGE (Research Director, CHEAM, Paris)

Islands, Communities and Economies of French Polynesia
by Paul LE BOURDIEC (Prof. of Geography, UFP, French Polynesia), Gerard MOTTET (Prof. of Geography, Univ. Lyon III) and Francois MERCERON (UFP, French Polynesia)

The Functioning of Coral Reefs and Atolls: from paradox to paradigm
by Francis ROUGERIE (Oceanographer, Research Director, ORSTOM, Papeete)

Coastal and Lagoon Environment of Huahine: recommendations for the development and management of the natural environment
by Catherine GABRIE (Environmental Consultant) and Claude PAYRI (Prof. of Marine Biology, UFP, French Polynesia)

Aspects ot the Distant and Recent Prehistory of the Polynesians
by Eric CONTE (Anthropology, UFP, French Polynesia)

Tahiti and the Polynesian System
by Louis MONNIER (Ecole Normale, French Polynesia)

From Eden to Tourist Paradise: Tahiti and the geography of paradisiac spaces
by Philippe BACHIMON (Univ. Avignon)

What development after the CEP? French Polynesia in search of a new style
by Gilles BLANCHET (Economist, ORSTOM, Brest)

An island at the end of the world: Wallis
by Frederic ANGLEVIEL (History, UFP, New Caledonia), Thierry AGOSTINI (IUFM du Pacifique, Wallis), F. DUPUY (Biology, Lycee de Wallis) and P. LAVAULT (Hist.-Geog., Lycee de Wallis)

The Horn Archipelago: Futuna and Alofi, physical geography
by Catherine COURVASIER (College de Futuna)

Futuna: human aspects
by Marc SOULE (College de Futuna)

Bibliography

See review article by Danny Yee

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