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Associate Professor Jenny Bryant-Tokalau is a Geographer working in Te Tumu (School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies) Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. Currently her interests are adaptation to and donor responses to climate change in the Pacific, and private sector investment, housing and land issues in Fiji. She has published widely on Pacific poverty and inequality, disasters, land and urbanization. Dr. Bryant-Tokalau Jenny has previously worked for the University of the South Pacific, The University of Papua New Guinea, PNG, Monash University and the United Nations Development Programme.
Community Responses to Floods in Fiji: Lessons Learned
As Pacific countries urbanize, the possibilities for more deaths and destruction are obvious. Traditional means of flood prevention and protection are not necessarily forgotten, despite modern changes in living patterns and life styles. In this essay, taking Fiji as a case study, lessons learned from traditional lifestyles are analyzed in the light of new, urban settlement patterns.
