The national environment strategy : Fiji

Abstract

Fiji has many positive physical and cultural attributes which it can draw upon on a sustainable basis for its ongoing development. It also has significant environmental constraints which are currently compounded by inadequate environmental policies, legislation and administration. Fiji lacks the serious demographic, economic and industrial pressures from which the majority of serious environmental problems originate in other countries. But conversely, its small size, young landscape and evolutionary isolation make its natural resources vulnerable to loss or degradation.