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Sarawak is one of the two Malaysian states located on the great island of Borneo, Sabah being the other state. This book is a comprehensive reference and guide to Sarawak's national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

These guides are designed to help meet the stated needs of extension personnel and other resource professionals for practitioner-friendly, locally appropriate agroforestry information.

The agreement, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 for a period of twenty years and revised in 2005, builds on the acquis of thirty years of experience. The successive Lomé Conventions had provided a unique model of North/South relations, combining a negotiated system of trade preferences and considerable amounts of aid. Yet the results had been mixed. Evaluations of Community aid to the ACP countries often demonstrated that insufficient account had been taken of the institutional and policy context in the partner country, and this had too often undermined the viability and effectiveness of cooperation. The impact of non- reciprocal trade preferences had also proven disappointing. The rise in private direct investment flows to the developing countries over the previous two decades had not benefited the majority of ACP coun-tries. Although the farsightedness and the contractual nature of the Lomé Conventions were acquis worth preserving, there was also an obvious need to adapt to international and regional developments. The rise in poverty in a number of countries, demographic development and environmental pressures meant that objectives and cooperation practices needed to be substantially reviewed.

The subject of this book, as the subtitle 'The Ethnobotany of Samoa' indicates, is the traditional and current uses of plants in Samoa. The word ethnobotany is composed of two root words of Greek origin, ethnos, meaning a race or people, and botanikos, referring of course to plants. Thus ethnobotany is the scientific study of how people in different cultures interact with and utilize the plants in their natural environment.

Wayside plants of the Islands : a guide to the lowland flora of the Pacific Islands, Hawai'i, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Fiji, Guam, Belau / W. Arthur Whistler

The contributors to this book focus on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand and the small island nations in the South Pacific, as the world struggles to formulate responses and cope with possible impacts of global warming. The emphasis is on the scientific, political and legal issues that frame the climate change debate. An effort is made to assess the implications of climate on critical ecosystems in the region, as well as possible social and economic impacts on the region's inhabitants. Many of the contributors also discuss the role of regional factors, including government representatives and non-government organizations, in the formulation and evolution of the primary international legal instrument that addresses climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change