Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands: Lessons, Challenges, and Ways Forward

Monaco, Edoardo, Abe, Masato

Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands: Lessons, Challenges, and Ways Forward
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-16
  • 售價: $4,680
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 430
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819736285
  • ISBN-13: 9789819736287

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商品描述

This timely and ambitious volume - a product of close research collaboration with the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia - is conceived as a holistic "journey" across various domains of progress in a region that, despite fundamental common traits, remains vast and diverse. Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) have (too) often been identified with elements of vulnerability, whether these be social, economic, or environmental in nature. While these factors cannot be overlooked, this volume aims to showcase not only the long-standing and emerging challenges but, perhaps more importantly, the opportunities, the resilience, the resourcefulness, and the ambition that local socioeconomic development patterns in the Pacific already encompass. Beyond PICTs themselves, we hope that the analyses collected in this book will contribute to highlighting the global significance of the human-nature nexus in the current Anthropocene. Often captured in the concept of "small islands, big oceans", the importance of the region and its islands and peoples transcends the geographical remoteness and small size of many PICTs.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本及時而雄心勃勃的著作是與聯合國密克羅尼西亞多國辦事處密切合作的研究成果，旨在以整體的方式探索太平洋地區在各個領域的進展。儘管太平洋島國和地區（PICTs）具有根本的共同特徵，但其規模和多樣性使其成為一個廣闊而多元的地區。太平洋島國和地區（PICTs）經常被認為是脆弱的元素的代表，無論這些元素是社會、經濟還是環境性質。儘管這些因素不能被忽視，但本書旨在展示太平洋地區的長期和新興挑戰，更重要的是展示當地社經發展模式中已經包含的機遇、韌性、足智多謀和抱負。除了太平洋島國和地區（PICTs）本身，我們希望本書中收集的分析能夠有助於凸顯人類與自然之間在當前人類世的全球重要性。太平洋地區和其島嶼及人民的重要性超越了許多太平洋島國和地區（PICTs）的地理偏遠和小規模，這一點常常被概括為“小島，大洋”的概念。

作者簡介

Edoardo Monaco is an Asia-based international development and sustainability specialist. He currently serves as Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Department of Social Sciences (DSS), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), at the Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (BNU-HKBU UIC) in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China. His interests lie in comparative development and the rise of the Global South, with particular regard to innovation for sustainable development; economic growth, diversification, and inclusion; South-South cooperation; Small Island Developing States (SIDS); and Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Edoardo regularly collaborates with intergovernmental organizations, prominent think tanks, and global media platforms. He has been a member of the China Association of the Club of Rome since 2021 and a research fellow at the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia since 2023.

Masato Abe is the Economist of the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia, Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). He has extensive experience in enterprise development and financing for development with a special emphasis on the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector, global value chains, disaster risk reduction, and access to finance. Before joining the secretariat of the United Nations, he worked in the global automotive, electronics, and high-technology industries. He has published numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, policy papers, and other writings for various outlets. He holds marketing, business administration, and economics degrees and is a research fellow at Thammasat University, Bangkok, a visiting lecturer at Waseda University, Tokyo, and a special lecturer at Naresuan University, Phitsanulok.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Edoardo Monaco是一位亞洲地區的國際發展和可持續發展專家。他目前擔任北京師範大學-香港浸會大學聯合國際學院（BNU-HKBU UIC）社會科學系（DSS）的副教授和代理系主任，該學院位於中國廣東省珠海市。他的研究興趣包括比較發展和全球南方的崛起，特別關注可持續發展的創新、經濟增長、多元化和包容性、南南合作、小島發展中國家（SIDS）和最不發達國家（LDCs）。Edoardo經常與政府間組織、知名智庫和全球媒體平台合作。自2021年起，他是中國羅馬俱樂部協會的成員，自2023年起擔任聯合國密克羅尼西亞多國辦事處的研究員。

Masato Abe是聯合國密克羅尼西亞多國辦事處的經濟學家，該辦事處位於密克羅尼西亞聯邦（FSM）的科隆尼亞波納佩。他在企業發展和發展融資方面擁有豐富經驗，特別關注微型、小型和中型企業（MSME）部門、全球價值鏈、減少災害風險和融資渠道。在加入聯合國秘書處之前，他曾在全球汽車、電子和高科技行業工作。他發表了許多書籍、專書章節、期刊文章、政策文件和其他著作。他擁有市場營銷、工商管理和經濟學學位，並擔任曼谷的Thammasat大學研究員，東京的早稻田大學客座講師，以及比坦尼亞府的Naresuan大學特聘講師。

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