Proceedings of the APN workshop on ethnographic perspectives on resilience to climate variability in Pacific island countries, Apia, Samoa, December 2001 / edited by Jon Barnett and Mark Busse.

Twenty-two papers.

Summary -- Resilience and adaption / Jon Barnett -- Effects of drought in the Middle Fly, Papua New Guinea / Mark Busse -- Adaption and resilience to climate change in Pacific Island communities / John Campbell -- Framing policy and building institutions for sustainability / Stephen Dovers -- Tokelau perspectioves on climate variability / Antony Hooper -- Climate change projections for the South Pacific / Roger Jones -- The role of adaptive capacity in reducing vulnerability / Roger Jones -- Traditional methods of weather and climate forecasting : the Samoa experience / Penehuro Lefale -- Adaption in climate change / Judith Littleton -- Coping with droughts in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea / Jane Mogina -- Tak / Richard Moyle -- Vulnerability and adaption in Niue / David Poihega -- A rural community perspective on adaption to climate change in Vanuatu / Nelson Rarua -- Climate change and relations between local communities and larger political structures in the Federated States of Micronesia / Don Rubinstein -- Observed climate change and variability in the South Pacific / Jim Salinger -- The Island climate update / Jim Salinger, Penehuro Lefale, and Georgina Griffiths -- Case studies of responses to climate change (cyclones, droughts and coastal erosion) in Tuvalu / Seluka Seluka -- Climate change and the settlement of the Pacific Islands / Jim Specht -- Hurricane Tsuman in Port Orly, Santo, Vanuatu, 1998 / Rex Thomas -- Vulnerability of Kiribati to climate change and sea-level rise : scientific information needs to be comprehensive, and unfettered of advocacy / Nakibae Teuatabo -- Health, climate abd climate change in the Pacific / Alistair Woodward -- Preparing for climate change / Alistair Woodward -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 : workshop programme -- Appendix 2 : list of participants -- Appendix 3 : press releases.