Tanvi Mani’s scientific contributions

... This has led to Hau'ofa (1993, p. 152), and later research (see Farbotko et al., 2018, p. 396), to consider Oceania as a connected "sea of islands". As a result of these ties, communities in Oceania were able to improve their resilience to environmental change by utilising their social connections to access resources or even return home if required making survival on small islands possible (Donner, 2015;Connell, 2015;Kelman, 2018;Corendea and Mani, 2018;Clement et al., 2021). This includes the Marshallese who refined their well-developed canoebuilding and navigational skills to allow them to maintain inter-atoll ties, which proved vital in times of need (Rudiak-Gould, 2013;Whyte et al., 2019). ...

Reference:

The challenges of climate change adaptation for displaced communities: The Bikini community on Kili and Ejit Islands