Engaging Environments in Tonga Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples' responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a grad...

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Main Author: Perminow, Arne Aleksej
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2023, 2023
Series:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
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