Filer, Colin, and Foale, Simon (2024) Conclusion. In: Filer, Colin, (ed.) Small Islands in Peril?: Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia. ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 229-235.

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[Extract] When we embarked on our adventure with the Sub-Global Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2002, we already had a mandate to think about small islands in peril or under pressure. However, it needs to be borne in mind that our mandate was generated by the proximity of a specific group of small island communities to the location of marine biodiversity values that were the principal focus of concern to the other parties engaged in a project funded by the Global Environment Facility. So the islanders had to be encountered as a group of actors whose existing livelihood strategies were more or less of a threat to these biodiversity values, and who might or might not be persuaded to adjust these strategies in order to reduce the threat that they posed.

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