Indigenous solutions to global challenges in the Pacific Islands

全球COVID 19大流行为了解太平洋岛屿社区土著可持续发展的性质和潜力提供了一个独特的机会，在太平洋岛屿社区，土著做法在应对边界封闭和行业衰退方面发挥着核心作用。该项目建议分析大流行病时代新的土著可持续发展倡议在维持岛屿社区方面的效力和文化价值。它旨在形成一种关于土著可持续发展的新的地理理论，并确定支持扩大土著可持续发展的新机会。这应使太平洋岛屿地区能够更好地应对气候变化、流行病和其他全球性挑战。

The global COVID 19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to understand the nature and potential of Indigenous sustainable development in Pacific Island communities, where Indigenous practices have been central in responses to closed borders and industry downturns. This project proposes to analyse the efficacy and cultural value of new, pandemic-era Indigenous sustainable development initiatives in sustaining island communities. It aims to culminate in a novel geographic theory of Indigenous sustainable development, and to identify new opportunities to support the expansion of Indigenous sustainable development. This should better enable the Pacific Islands region to respond to climate change, pandemics and other global challenges.