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Pierick CM Martin currently works at the School of Science, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast. Pierick does research in Environmental Science. His most recent publication is 'Responding to multiple climate-linked stressors in a remote island context: the example of Yadua Island, Fiji.'.
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A 50–70 cm sea-level fall around A.D. 1300 may have led to a prolonged food crisis which caused conflict among coastal dwellers on high Pacific islands. The conflict may have necessitated abandoning difficult to defend coastal settlements and establishing ones in fortifiable locations inland. To test this idea, abandoned hillforts (koronivalu)on20k...
Sixteen hillforts constructed and occupied perhaps several centuries before contact in the early nineteenth century are described from Bua district in northern Fiji. These hillforts represent inland settlements in fortifiable locations on high volcanic islands, plausibly established in response to the outbreak of sustained conflict. The chronology...
Island societies are being disproportionately affected by climate change, a situation likely to continue for some decades. Using an example of an island affected by multiple climate-linked stressors, a situation likely to become more common in the future, this paper examines the nature of these, the ways they are perceived and responded to by local...
