Contents Previous Contributors RANDOLPH R. THAMAN. Professor of Pacific Islands Biogeography at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, where he has been since 1974. He also serves as Chairman of the Fiji National Food and Nutrition Committee and was founder and Chairman (1982-1986, 19891990) of the South Pacific Action Committee for Human Ecology and the Environment (SPACHEE). His B.A. and M.A. in Geography are from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interests include Pacific Island agriculture, agroforestry, food systems, nutrition and health, Pacific vegetation and ethnobotany, environmental management and education, and remote sensing. He has carried out field research in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji, Rotuma, Tonga, Nauru, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Indonesia, and China. WILLIAM C. CLARKE has served as Professor of Geography at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, at Monash University in Melbourne, and at the University of Papua New Guinea. Prior to those appointments, he was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. His B.A. in Anthropology and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography are from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Pacific agriculture and agroforestry, tropical biogeography, soil erosion, human ecology, and tourism. He has carried out field research in the Caribbean, Cape York, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Rotuma, and Vanuatu. | |
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