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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Tuvalu"”.
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Tuvalu
Kolik obyvatelů má město, z kterého pocházíte? Tuvalu má dvanáct tisíc a to není město. Je to krajina. Devět ostrovů v jižním Pacifiku téměř na datumové hranici. Na první pohled byste řekli, že je to ráj. Teplota ovzduší je neustále kolem 30°, písek bílý, obloha modrá a moře je plné ryb. Na souši …
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Church and society in Tuvalu
… as exemplified in the Christian religion of Tuvalu (Central Pacific). It also examines that notion in Western social science, official descriptions, and missionary accounts and posits a strong ideological connection between these and indigenous communalism.
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Towards Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Tuvalu
Plastic waste poses an escalating challenge for Tuvalu, a small island developing state with limited landmass, fragile ecosystems, and virtually limited domestic plastic recycling infrastructure. In Funafuti, the capital, plastic waste particularly single-use packaging and disposable nappies …
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Towards Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Tuvalu
Plastic waste poses an escalating challenge for Tuvalu, a small island developing state with limited landmass, fragile ecosystems, and virtually limited domestic plastic recycling infrastructure. In Funafuti, the capital, plastic waste particularly single-use packaging and disposable nappies …
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TOKU TIA: Tuvalu and the impacts of climate change
… rate. Low-lying atoll states, such as Tuvalu, because of their geomorphologies, are exposed directly to climate change impacts. Scientific predictions of the rising sea levels and media representations of low-lying atolls becoming uninhabitable and sinking are increasingly causing grave …
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Post-island futures : seeding territory for Tuvalu's fluid atolls
The atoll nation of Tuvalu lies only a few meters above the seas of the equatorial Pacific, and is at high risk for inundation and storm surges due to climate change. However, in spite of the media narrative of "sinking" Tuvalu, when understood in broader contexts of time and space, the existence …
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Field and numerical investigations of wave transformation and inundation on atoll islands
… were collected on Fatato Island, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu, to understand contemporary wave transformation processes on a previously unstudied atoll. Subsequently, a fully nonlinear Boussinesq model was used to simulate wave processes on Fatato and other reefs with variable morphology to evaluate the …