Confronting death: Tuvaluan Islanders, in the South Pacific, and the rising sea level
The Tuvalu Group is made of nine small low-lying coral atoll and reef islands, located in the South Pacific, about 1,100 km north of Fiji. With a total area of 26 km2, it has about 11,000 residents, generally fishermen and breadfruit, taro, pulaka and coconut subsistence farmers. The people of Tuval...
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222012000200011&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |