Locating disaster communication in changing communicative ecologies across the Pacific

The Pacific Island region is geographically and culturally diverse, with a significant range of communication infrastructures and challenges. Access and use of mobile phones has risen exponentially over the past five years. According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster management and communication plans. For these plans to be effective, however, we argue that access to, and affordability of, technologies represent only one dimension of what needs to be considered in effective disaster communication plans. They also need to consider appropriate technologies, local communicative ecologies, systems for the ownership and maintenance of infrastructures, and local knowledge and belief systems. With a focus on mobile and other telecommunications technologies, this paper provides an overview of disaster communication systems and infrastructures, practices and challenges in the region.

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MONARCHS, TRAVELLERS AND EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC'S AGE OF REVOLUTIONS

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.1017/s0080440120000043 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 77-96

Author(s):

Sujit Sivasundaram

Keyword(s):

Pacific Islanders ◽

Modern World ◽

Global History ◽

The Past ◽

The Pacific ◽

Cultural Terms ◽

The Pacific Ocean ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Uk ◽

A Site

AbstractThe Pacific has often been invisible in global histories written in the UK. Yet it has consistently been a site for contemplating the past and the future, even among Britons cast on its shores. In this lecture, I reconsider a critical moment of globalisation and empire, the ‘age of revolutions’ at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth century, by journeying with European voyagers to the Pacific Ocean. The lecture will point to what this age meant for Pacific islanders, in social, political and cultural terms. It works with a definition of the Pacific's age of revolutions as a surge of indigeneity met by a counter-revolutionary imperialism. What was involved in undertaking a European voyage changed in this era, even as one important expedition was interrupted by news from revolutionary Europe. Yet more fundamentally vocabularies and practices of monarchy were consolidated by islanders across the Pacific. This was followed by the outworkings of counter-revolutionary imperialism through agreements of alliance and alleged cessation. Such an argument allows me, for instance, to place the 1806 wreck of the Port-au-Prince within the Pacific's age of revolutions. This was an English ship used to raid French and Spanish targets in the Pacific, but which was stripped of its guns, iron, gunpowder and carronades by Tongans. To chart the trajectory from revolution and islander agency on to violence and empire is to appreciate the unsettled paths that gave rise to our modern world. This view foregrounds people who inhabited and travelled through the earth's oceanic frontiers. It is a global history from a specific place in the oceanic south, on the opposite side of the planet to Europe.

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Perceptions and Opinions towards Cell Phone Use as a Risk Factor of Brain Cancer among University Students in Malaysia

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.3126/ajms.v4i1.7808 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Redhwan Ahmed Al-Naggar ◽

Yuri V Bobryshev

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Brain Cancer ◽

Cell Phone ◽

Cell Phones ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Cell Phone Use ◽

The Past ◽

Carcinogenic Effects ◽

Study Participants

The worldwide use of cell phones has rapidly increased over the past decades. With the increasing use of mobile phones, concern has been raised about the possible carcinogenic effects as a result of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions and opinions towards brain cancer related to cell phone use among university students in Malaysia. The study revealed that the majority of the study participants believe that there is no relationship between brain cancer and hand phone use.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v4i1.7808 Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 4(2013) 1-4

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Eyes on the pacific: Cancer issues of native Hawaiians and pacific Islanders in Hawai’i and the US-associated Pacific

Journal of Cancer Education ◽

10.1007/bf03182319 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 24 (S2) ◽

pp. S68-S69 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joann U. Tsark ◽

Kathryn L. Braun

Keyword(s):

Pacific Islanders ◽

Native Hawaiians ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Us

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Nuclear activities and the Pacific islanders

Energy ◽

10.1016/0360-5442(84)90005-7 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 9 (9-10) ◽

pp. 733-750 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jon Van Dyke ◽

Kirk R. Smith ◽

Suliana Siwatibau

Keyword(s):

Pacific Islanders ◽

The Pacific

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Summary of Coastal Geologic Evidence for past Great Earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Earthquake Spectra ◽

10.1193/1.1585800 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 163

Author(s):

Brian F. Atwater ◽

Alan R. Nelson ◽

John J. Clague ◽

Gary A. Carver ◽

David K. Yamaguchi ◽

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Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Subduction Zone ◽

Forest Soils ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Cascadia Subduction Zone ◽

Level Change ◽

The Past ◽

The Pacific ◽

Juan De Fuca

Earthquakes in the past few thousand years have left signs of land-level change, tsunamis, and shaking along the Pacific coast at the Cascadia subduction zone. Sudden lowering of land accounts for many of the buried marsh and forest soils at estuaries between southern British Columbia and northern California. Sand layers on some of these soils imply that tsunamis were triggered by some of the events that lowered the land. Liquefaction features show that inland shaking accompanied sudden coastal subsidence at the Washington-Oregon border about 300 years ago. The combined evidence for subsidence, tsunamis, and shaking shows that earthquakes of magnitude 8 or larger have occurred on the boundary between the overriding North America plate and the downgoing Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates. Intervals between the earthquakes are poorly known because of uncertainties about the number and ages of the earthquakes. Current estimates for individual intervals at specific coastal sites range from a few centuries to about one thousand years.

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“The ice has gone”: Vernacular meteorology, fisheries and human–ice relationships on Sakhalin Island

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247421000127 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

Author(s):

Nadezhda Mamontova

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Community Based ◽

Rural People ◽

The Past ◽

Weather Observations ◽

The Pacific ◽

Management Policies ◽

Subsistence Activities ◽

Human Subsistence

Abstract This paper examines vernacular weather observations amongst rural people on Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island on the Pacific Coast, and their relationship to the ice. It is based on a weather diary (2000–2016) of one of the local inhabitants and fieldwork that the author conducted in the settlement of Trambaus in 2016. The diary as a community-based weather monitoring allows us to examine how people understand, perceive and deal with the weather both daily and in the long-term perspective. Research argues that amongst all natural phenomena, the ice is the most crucial for the local inhabitants as it determines human subsistence activities, navigation and relations with other environmental forces and beings. People perceive the ice as having an agency, engage in a dialogue with it, learn and adjust themselves to its drifting patterns. Over the past decade, the inability to predict the ice’s behaviour has become a major problem affecting people’s well-being in the settlement. The paper advocates further integrating vernacular weather observations and their relations with natural forces into research on climate change and local fisheries management policies.

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Determinants of University Students' Waste Mobile Phones Recycling Intention

11th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences Proceeding ◽

10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2021.12(84) ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 84-84

Author(s):

Ho Sew Tiep ◽

Goh Mei Ling ◽

Radziah Shaikh Abdullah ◽

Teo Kim Mui

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Mobile Phone ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Management Practices ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Efficient System ◽

The Past ◽

Tremendous Amount ◽

Waste Management Practices ◽

Insight Into

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, mobile phones has become the utmost preference device for most Malaysian to stay connected. Over the past decades, mobile phone users in this country has been increasing steadily. Percentage of individuals in Malaysia using mobile phones increased from 94.2% in 2013 to 97.5% in 2015 (DOS, 2016). According to the hand phone users survey carried out by MCMC (2017) , there were 42.3 million mobile phone subscriptions with a penetration rate of 131.2% to a population of 32.3 million at the end of 2017. In a study on university students of Malaysia, Ho et al. (2018) revealed that a substantial amount of them (18.83%) actually do not know what to do with the waste mobile phones. This reflects the low awareness amongst university students and the lack of formal management system in Malaysia. Moreover, the findings show the rate of replacements of even functioning phones is high and a significant high stockpile of the waste mobile phones, which in turn increase the generation of e-waste eventually. Tremendous amount of waste mobile phones are expected to be generated in Malaysia. Malaysia is now facing a challenge on how to deal with the ever growing generation of waste mobile phones from users. An insight into their e-waste management practices and key predictors in relation to waste mobile phones recycling intention are therefore essential. This would help to lay the foundation for developing a suitable, workable, effective and efficient system of collecting e-wastes. This study aims to probe into university students' behavioural intentions to recycle waste mobile phones. In the meanwhile, it is expected to derive the policy implications for the future expansion and enhancement of mobile phones recycling response rate. Keywords: Determinants, Mobile Phones, Recycling, Intention, University Students

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Rattus exulans (Pacific rat).

10.1079/cpc.46834.20210099928 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aaron Shiels

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Bird Species ◽

Tropical Pacific ◽

Pacific Basin ◽

The Past ◽

The Pacific ◽

Ground Nesting ◽

The Tropical Pacific

Abstract The Pacific rat, R. exulans, is an major agricultural and environmental pest in parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Thought to have spread with Polynesian colonists over the past several thousand years, it is now found through much of the Pacific basin, and is extensively distributed in the tropical Pacific. It poses a significant threat to indigenous wildlife, particularly ground-nesting birds, and has been linked to the extinction of several bird species. R. exulans may also transmit diseases to humans.

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