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Accounting for change: bringing interdependence into defining sustainability
Pacific studies • 22 (3-4) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 81-107
By: Nero, Karen L..
Abstract
This article shows that international development agencies currently intervening in the restructuring of the Marshal Islands economy have continued to define the term 'sustainability' in ways that undermine the resilience of local economic strategies. It argues that such a definition fails to capture the full nature of the ongoing Marshallese economy by focusing too narrowly on transfers related to the Island's political relations with the United States of America.
- Subjects
- External relations
- Research and development
- Diet
- Fishing
- External trade
- Production and supply
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural identity and pride
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Environmental quality
- Gift giving
- Composition of population
- Real property
- Settlement patterns
- culture
- Marshallese
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field Date
- 1996-1997
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1999
- Coverage Place
- Marshalls Island
- Notes
- Karen L. Nero
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107)
- LCCN
- 84643929
- LCSH
- Marshallese