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标题：Guest Editorial by Simon Batterbury, University of Melbourne, Australia
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作者：Simon Batterbury
期刊名称：Pacific Geographies
印刷版ISSN：2196-1468
出版年度：2014
期号：42
出版社：Hamburg University
摘要：As I have worked in the Pacific over the last decade I have been struck by its diversity of environments, cultures, and political economies, but also the importance of this geography for everyday life chances and livelihoods. In order to understand what happens locally, one has to scale back in time and out to wider orbits and scales, not only to see islands societies as embedded in distant economies through labour movement and kinship relations, but also to appreciate globally generated, but locally expressed, vulnerabilities. These come from altered climate and weather, sea levels and ocean acidity, but also from an adverse colonial and extractivist legacy (Connell and Waddell, 2006).