Only those publications from 2012 onwards are listed on this page, by year of publication; many have links to the full publication. I have also edited a few books and monographs, details here.
2024 Academic Publications
Franks, L., Nunn, P.D. and McCallum, A. 2024. The selective geography of volcanism in oral traditions. Quaternary Research.
Leal Filho, W., Luetz, J.M., Nunn, P.D., Turagabeci, A. and Campbell, D. 2024. Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states. Nature Climate Change, 14: 660–661.
Lykins, A., Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R., Sundaraja, C. and Cosh, S. 2024. Na neitou qele ga qo (This is our only land): adaptation to the effects of climate change in rural indigenous Fijians. Global Environmental Psychology, 2, e11239.
Nunn, P.D. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2024. The drowning of ‘Lyonesse’: early legends of land submergence in southwest Britain as geoscience. Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies, 63(1).
Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R., Barrowman, H.B., Chambers, L., Fifita, L., Gegeo, D., Gomese, C., McGree, S., Rarai, A., Cheer, K., Esau, D., Fa’anunu, ‘O., Fong, T., Fong-Lomavatu, M., Geraghty, P., Heorake, T., Kekeubata, E., Korovulavula, I., Kubunavanua, E., Lui, S., MacLaren, D., Malsale, P., Nemani, S., Plotz, R.D., Puairana, G., Rantes, J., Singh-Peterson, L. and Waiwai, M. 2024. Traditional Knowledge for Climate Resilience in the Pacific Islands. WIREs-Climate Change.
Nunn, P.D., Luebbers, R., Hesp, P.A., Murray-Wallace, C., Wilson, C., Bourman, R.P., Roberts, A., Moffat, I., Miot da Silva, G., Dillenburg, S.R., Tamura, T., Reilly, M. and Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation. 2024. Calibrating Holocene human-environment interactions using ancient stories: the example of Ngurunderi in South Australia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
Simard, N.S.M., Militz, T.A., Kinch, J., Nunn, P.D. and Southgate, P.C. 2024. Socio-ecological factors, stock status, and governance relating to a shellcraft fishery in the Indo-Pacific region. Journal of Ethnobiology.
2023 Academic Publications
Foley, A., Brinklow, L.M., Corbett, J., Kelman, I., Klöck, C., Moncada, S., Mycoo, M., Nunn, P.D., Pugh, J., Robinson, S-a., Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. and Walshe, R. 2023. Understanding “islandness”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Fraser, B.C., Sharman, R. and Nunn, P.D. 2023. Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample. Public Understanding of Science, 32(3):322-339.
Hamacher, D., Lehman, G., Nunn, P.D. and Taylor, R. 2023. From Southern Stars to Rising Seas: Aboriginal oral traditions thrive for 12,000 years. The Conversation, 14th August 2023.
Hamacher, D., Nunn, P.D., Gantevoort, M., Taylor, R., Lehman, G., Law, K.H.A. and Miles, M. 2023. The archaeology of orality: dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Archaeological Science, 105819.
Lancini, L., Nunn, P.D., Nanuku, M., Tavola, K., Bolea, T., Geraghty, P. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2023. Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji) ~2500 Years Ago. Oral Tradition, 36(1), 63-90.
Luetz, J. and Nunn, P.D. 2023. Spirituality and sustainable development: an entangled and neglected relationship. Sustainability Science.
Luetz, J.M., Nichols, E., du Plessis, K. and Nunn, P.D. 2023. Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Systematic Word Frequency Analysis and an Agenda for Research in Pacific Island Countries. Sustainability, 15: 2201.
Lykins, A., Cosh, S., Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R. and Sundaraja, C. 2023. “Io, keimami leqataka vakalevu na vei gauna mai muri” (“we are worried about the future generation”): experiences of eco-grief in rural indigenous Fijians. Global Environmental Psychology, 1: e11447. DOI: 10.5964/gep.11447.
Nunn, P. 2023. Memories within Myth, Aeon, 7th April 2023 (3500 words).
Nunn, P.D. 2023. Coastal settings. In: Gilbert, A.S., Goldberg, P., Mandel, R.D. and Aldeias, V. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Cham: Springer Nature, pp 1-13.
Nunn, P. and Kumar, R. 2023. No Problems: Community Fieldwork in Fiji. Blog, SUNRISE Project, University of London, 24 March 2023.
Nunn, P.D. and Luetz, J.M. 2023. Harnessing traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific. East Asia Forum, 12 June 2023.
Nunn, P.D. and Reid, N. 2023. Evidence that the oral stories of First Nations Australians may be thousands of years old. Agora (History Teachers’ Association of Victoria), 58(2): 9–13.
Petzold, J., Joe, E.T., Kelman, I., Magnan, A.K., Mirbach, C., Alverio, G.N., Nunn, P.D. and Ratter, B.M.W. 2023. Between tinkering and transformation: a contemporary appraisal of climate-change adaptation research on the world’s islands. Frontiers in Climate, 4: 1072231.
2022 Academic Publications
Bhullar, N., Davis, M., Kumar, R., Nunn, P.D. and Rickwood, D. 2022. Climate anxiety does not need a diagnosis of a mental health disorder. The Lancet: Planetary Health, 6: e383.
Foley, A.M., Moncada, S., Mycoo, M., Nunn, P.D., Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. and Evans, C. 2022. Small Island Developing States in a post-pandemic world: challenges and opportunities for climate action. WIREs Climate Change, 2022: e769.
Klöck, C., Duvat, V. and Nunn, P.D. 2022. Maladaptive diffusion? The spread of hard protection to adapt to coastal erosion and flooding along island coasts in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Regional Environmental Change, 22: 136.
Le Cozannet, G., Lawrence, J., Schoeman, D., Adelekan, I., Cooley, S., Glavovic, B., Haasnoot, M., Harris, R., Kiessling, W., Kopp, R.E., Mukherji, A., Nunn, P.D., Piepenburg, D., Schmidt, D., Simmons, C.T., Singh, C., Slangen, A. and Supratid, S. 2022. Cross-Chapter Box SLR: Sea Level Rise. In: Cooley, S., Schoeman, D., Bopp, L., Boyd, P., Donner, S., Ghebrehiwet, D.Y., Ito, S.-I., Kiessling, W., Martinetto, P., Ojea, E., Racault, M.-F., Rost, B. and Skern-Mauritzen, M. Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems and their Services. In: Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D.C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E.S., Mintenbeck, K., Alegría, A., Craig, M., Langsdorf, S., Löschke, S., Möller, V., Okem, A. and Rama, B. (Eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3.125-3.129.
Leal Filho, W., Wolf, F., Moncada, S., Salvia, A.L., Balogun, A-L.B., Skanavis, C., Kounani, A. and Nunn, P.D. 2022. Transformative adaptation as a sustainable response to climate change – insights from large-scale case studies. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 27: #20.
Medina Hidalgo, D., Nunn, P. D., Beazley, H., Burkhart, S. and Rantes, J. 2022. Climate change adaptation planning, sustainable food systems and healthy diets: an analysis of climate policy integration in Fiji and Vanuatu. Climate Policy, 22(9-10), 1130-1145. free to read here.
Mycoo, M., Wairiu, M., Campbell, D., Duvat, V., Golbuu, Y., Maharaj, S., Nalau, J., Nunn, P.D., Pinnegar, J. and Warrick, O. 2022. Small Islands. In: Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D.C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E.S., Mintenbeck, K., Alegría, A., Craig, M., Langsdorf, S., Löschke, S., Möller, V., Okem, A. and Rama, B. (Eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 15.1-15.107.
Nunn, P.D. 2022. First a wudd, and syne a sea : postglacial coastal change of Scotland recalled in ancient stories. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(1-2), 73-102.
Nunn, P.D. and Cook, M. 2022. Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise. World Archaeology, 54(1): 29-51.
Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2022. ‘A once capacious haven’: what happened to Calicut (Malabar coast of India) AD 1335-1887. International Review of Environmental History 8(2): 29-49.
Nunn, P.D., Lancini, L. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2022. Lessons from Catastrophe: Risk Management in Oral Societies / Les leçons de la catastrophe: la gestion du risque dans les sociétés de culture orale. In: Compatangelo-Soussignan, R., Diosono, F. and Le Blay, F. (eds.). Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean and Beyond between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp 83-92.
Nunn, P.D., Nakoro, E., Kumar, R., Nanuku, M. and Camailakeba, M. 2022. How island peoples adapt to climate change: insights from studies of Fiji’s hillforts. In: Carson, M.T. (ed.). Palaeolandscapes in Archaeology: Lessons for the Past and Future. London: Routledge, pp 313-339.
Nunn, P.D., Ward, I., Stéphan, P., McCallum, A., Gehrels, R., Carey, G., Clarke, A., Cook, M., Geraghty, P., Guilfoyle, D., McNeair, B., Miller, G., Nakoro, E., Reynolds, D. and Stewart, L. 2022. Human observations of Late Quaternary coastal change: examples from Australia, Europe and the Pacific Islands. Quaternary International, 638-639: 212-224.
Rantes, J., Nunn, P.D. and Addinsall, C. 2022. Sustainable development at the policy-practice nexus: insights from South West Bay, Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 46(2): 234-250.
Russell, L., Nunn, P., Bateman, N., Griffiths, B., Shellam, T., Morgan, R. and Rademaker, L. 2022. Oceanic histories: a roundtable. Journal of Australian Studies, 46(4): 512-535.
Sharman, R. and Nunn, P.D. 2022. Inside the mind of a sceptic: the ‘mental gymnastics’ of climate change denial. The Conversation, published online 14th September 2022.
Tschakert, P., Williamson, B., Stafford Smith, M., Ash, A., Hurlimann, A., Rogers, B., Lovelock, C, Bowman, D., Schlosberg, D., Lee, E., Duggie, J., Palutikof, J., Mansfield, J., Weir, J., Ludbrook, J., Mummery, J., Salazar, J.F., Rickards, L., Head, L., Hanna, L., Crosweller, M., Howden, M., Fischer, M., Barnes, M., Godden, N.J., Nunn, P., Faggian, R., Wise, R., Dovers, S., Sutton, S., Bunn, S. and Cavagnaro, T. 2022. A National Strategy for Just Adaptation. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science / Future Earth Australia, 76 p.
2021 Academic Publications
Atkinson-Nolte, J., Nunn, P.D. and Millear, P. 2021. Influence of spiritual beliefs on autonomous climate-change adaptation: a case study from Ono Island, southern Fiji. In: Luetz, J.M. and Nunn, P.D. (eds). Beyond Belief: Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands. Cham: Springer Nature, 247-266.
Duvat, V.K.E., Magnan, A.K., Perry, C.T., Spencer, T., Bell, J.D., Wabnitz, C., Webb, A.P., White, I., McInnes, K.L., Gattuso, J-P., Graham, N.A.J., Nunn, P.D. and Le Cozannet, G. 2021. Risks to future atoll habitability from climate-driven environmental changes. WIREs Climate Change, e700.
Fink, M., Klöck, C., Korovulavula, I. and Nunn, P.D. 2021. Community participation, situated knowledge and climate change (mal-)adaptation in rural island communities: evidence from artificial shoreline-protection structures in Fiji. In: Moncada, S., Briguglio, L., Bambrick, H., Kelman, I., Iorns, C., and Nurse, L. (eds). Small Island Developing States: Vulnerability and Resilience under Climate Change. Berlin: Springer, pp 57-79.
Kumar, R., Nunn, P.D. and Nakoro, E. 2021. Identifying 3000-year old human interaction spheres in central Fiji through Lapita ceramic sand-temper analyses. Geosciences, 11: 238.
Leal Filho, W., Totin, E., Franke, J., Andrew, S.M., Abubakar, I.R., Azadi, H., Nunn, P.D., Ouweneel, B., Williams, P.A., Simpson, N.P. and Global Adaptation Mapping Team. 2021. Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa. Science of the Total Environment, 806, 150420.
Luetz, J.M. and Nunn, P.D. (eds). 2021. Beyond Belief: Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands. Cham: Springer Nature, 391 pages.
Medina Hidalgo, D.L., Nunn, P.D. and Beazley, H. 2021. Uncovering multi-layered vulnerability and resilience in rural villages in the Pacific: a case study of Ono Island, Fiji. Ecology and Society, 26(1): 26.
Medina Hidalgo, D., Nunn, P.D. and Beazley, H. 2021. Challenges and opportunities for food systems in a changing climate: a systematic review of climate policy integration. Environmental Science and Policy, 124: 485-495.
Medina Hidalgo, D.L., Nunn, P.D., Beazley, H., Sovinasalevu, J.S. and Veitayaki, J. 2021. Climate change adaptation planning in remote contexts: insights from community-based natural resource management and rural development initiatives in the Pacific Islands. Climate and Development, 13(10): 909-921.
Nunn, P.D. 2021. O cei na vulavula? Insights and regrets of a foreign geoscientist in the Pacific Islands. Geosciences, 11: 182 (Full text available here).
Nunn, P.D. and Luetz, J.M. 2021. Beyond belief. In: Luetz, J.M. and Nunn, P.D. (eds). Beyond Belief: Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands. Cham: Springer Nature, 1-14.
Nunn, P.D., Klöck, C. and Duvat, V. 2021. Seawalls as maladaptations along island coasts. Ocean and Coastal Management, 205: 105554.
Nunn, P.D., Smith, T.F. and Elrick-Barr, C. 2021. Path dependency and future adaptation of coastal cities: examples from the Asia-Pacific. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 359(9)
Nunn, P.D., Creach, A., Gehrels, R., Bradley, S.L., Armit, I., Stéphan, P., Sturt, F. and Baltzer, A. 2021. Observations of postglacial sea-level rise in northwest European traditions. Geoarchaeology, 37: 577-593.
2020 Academic Publications
Carson, M.T. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. Central Pacific islands: sea-level change and sites. In: Smith, C. (ed). Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Nature: Cham. 8 p.
Eliot, I., Kumar, L., Eliot, M., Stul, T., McLean, R.F. and Nunn, P.D., 2020. Downscaling from whole-island to an island-coast assessment of coastal landform susceptibility to metocean change in the Pacific Ocean. In: Kumar, L. (ed). Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Berlin: Springer, pp 225-250.
Kumar, L., Jayasinghe, S., Gopalakrishnan, T. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. Climate change and the Pacific Islands. In: Kumar, L. (ed). Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Berlin: Springer, pp 1-32.
Kumar, L., Eliot, I., Nunn, P.D., Stul, T. and McLean, R.F. 2020. Comparison of the physical susceptibility of Pacific islands to risks potentially associated with variability in weather and climate. In: Kumar, L. (ed). Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Berlin: Springer, pp 201-224.
Leal Filho, W., Lütz, J.M., Sattler, D.N. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. Coronavirus: COVID-19 Transmission in Pacific Small Island Developing States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 5409.
Luetz, J.M. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. Climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands: a review of faith-engaged approaches and opportunities. In: Leal Filho, W. (ed). Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Cham: Springer Nature, pp 293-311.
McNamara, K.E., Clissold, R., Westoby, R., Piggott-McKellar, A., Kumar, R., Clarke, T., Namoumou, F., Areki, F., Chisholm, M., Joseph, E., Warrick, O. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands. Nature Climate Change, 10, 628-639.
Medina Hidalgo, D., Witten, I., Nunn, P.D., Burkhart, S., Bogard, J.R., Beazley, H. and Herrero, M. 2020. Sustaining healthy diets in times of change: linking climate hazards, food systems and nutrition security in rural communities of the Fiji Islands. Regional Environmental Change, 20, #73.
Nunn, P.D. 2020. In anticipation of extirpation: how ancient peoples rationalized and responded to postglacial sea-level rise … and why it matters. Environmental Humanities, 12(1), 113-131.
Nunn, P.D. and Campbell, J.R. 2020. Rediscovering the past to negotiate the future: how knowledge about settlement history on high tropical Pacific Islands might facilitate future relocations. Environmental Development, 35, 100546.
Nunn, P.D., Kumar, L., McLean, R.F. and Eliot, I. 2020. Islands in the South Pacific: settings, distribution and classification. In: Kumar, L. (ed). Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Berlin: Springer, pp 33-170.
Nunn, P.D., McLean, R.F., Dean, A., Fong, T., Iese, V., Katonivualiku, M., Klöck, C., Korovulavula, I., Kumar, R. and Tabe, T. 2020. Adaptation to climate change: contemporary challenges and perspectives. In: Kumar, L. (ed). Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific. Berlin: Springer, pp 499-524.
Pearson, J., McNamara, K.E. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. iTaukei ways of knowing and managing mangroves for ecosystem-based adaptation. In: Leal Filho, W. (ed). Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Cham: Springer Nature, pp 105-127.
Piggott-McKellar, A., McNamara, K.E. and Nunn, P.D. 2020. Who defines ‘good’ climate change adaptation and why it matters: a case study from Abaiang Island, Kiribati. Regional Environmental Change, 20, #43.
Piggott-McKellar, A.E., Nunn, P.D., McNamara, K.E. and Sekinini, S.T. 2020. Dam(n) seawalls: a case of climate change maladaptation in Fiji. In: Leal Filho, W. (ed). Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Cham: Springer Nature, pp 69-84.
2019 Academic Publications
Clarke, T., McNamara, K.E., Clissold, R. and Nunn, P.D. 2019. Community-based adaptation to climate change: lessons from Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Island Studies Journal, 14(1), 59-80.
Klöck, C. and Nunn, P.D. 2019. Adaptation to climate change in Small Island Developing States: a systematic literature review of academic research. Journal of Environment and Development, 28(2), 196-218.
Korovulavula, I., Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R. and Fong, T. 2019. Peripherality as key to understanding opportunities and needs for effective and sustainable climate-change adaptation: a case study from Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Climate and Development, 12 (10), 888-898.
Martin, P.C.M., Nunn, P.D., Tokainavatu, N., Thomas, F.R., Léon, J. and Tindale, N. 2019. Last-millennium settlement on Yadua Island, Fiji: insights into conflict and climate change. Asian Perspectives, 58(2), 316-330.
Maynard, S., Nunn, P.D., Hemstock, S., Loubser, D., Baral, H., Shapiro, C., Yao, R. and Vardon, M. (eds.). 2019. Ecosystem service approaches to addressing sustainability issues in Oceania. Ecosystem Services, Special Issue 39.
Nunn, P.D. 2019. Negotiating and remembering the end of the world: insights into ancient people’s responses to sea-level rise. « Négocier » et se souvenir de la fin du monde: des aperçus des réponses des anciens habitants des côtes à la remontée du niveau des mers. Norois: Environnement, Aménagement, Société, 251, 15-26.
Nunn, P.D. 2019 (for 2017). Rivers of knowledge: contemporary implications of people’s memories of millennia-old geological phenomena. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(2), 223-241.
Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2019. Measuring peripherality as a proxy for autonomous community coping capacity: a case study from Bua Province, Fiji Islands, for improving climate change adaptation. Social Sciences, 8(8), #225.
Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2019. Cashless adaptation to climate change in developing countries: unwelcome yet unavoidable? One Earth, 1, 31–34.
Nunn, P.D. and McNamara, K.E. 2019. Failing adaptation in island contexts: the growing need for transformational change. In: Klöck, C. and Fink, M. (eds). Dealing with Climate Change on Small Islands: Towards Effective and Sustainable Adaptation? Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, pp 19-44.
Nunn, P.D., Joseph, E., Korovulavula, I. and Kumar, R. 2019. Peripherality as key to understanding climate-associated risk and resilience for Pacific Island communities. APN Science Bulletin, 9(1).
Nunn, P.D., Lancini, L., Franks, L., Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. and McCallum, A. 2019. Maar stories: how oral traditions aid understanding of maar volcanism and associated phenomena during pre-literate times. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(5): 1618-1631.
Nunn, P.D., McKeown, M., McCallum, A., Davies, P., John, E.H., Chandra, R., Thomas, F.R. and Raj, S.N. 2019. Origin, development and prospects of sand islands off the north coast of Viti Levu Island, Fiji, Southwest Pacific. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 23(6), 1005-1018.
Nunn, P.D., Nakoro, E., Tokainavatu, N., McKeown, M., Geraghty, P., Thomas, F.R., Martin, P., Hourigan, B. and Kumar, R. 2019. A Koronivalu kei Bua: Hillforts in Bua Province (Fiji), their Chronology, Associations and Potential Significance. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
Pearson, J., McNamara, K.E. and Nunn, P.D. 2019. Gender-specific perspectives of mangrove ecosystem services: case study from Bua Province, Fiji Islands. Ecosystem Services, 38, 100970.
Piggott-McKellar, A., McNamara, K.E., Nunn, P.D. and Sekinini, S. 2019. Moving people in a changing climate: lessons from two case studies in Fiji. Social Sciences, 8(5), #133.
Piggott-McKellar, A., McNamara, K.E., Nunn, P.D. and Watson, J. 2019. What are the barriers to successful community-based climate change adaptation? A review of grey literature. Local Environment, 24(4), 374-390.
Piggott-McKellar, A., Pearson, J., McNamara, K.E. and Nunn, P.D. 2019. A livelihood analysis of resettlement outcomes: lessons for climate-induced relocations. Ambio, 49(9), 1474-1489.
Renouf, J.S., Mann, M.E., Cook, J., Wright, C., Steffen, W., Nunn, P., Dube, P., Jouzel, J., Lewandowsky, S., Poelina, A., and Richardson, K. 2019. Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency. Times Higher Education, 27th September 2019.
Ripple, W.J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T.M., Barnard, P., Moomaw, W.R. and 11,258 scientist signatories [including Nunn, P.D.]. 2019. World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency. Bioscience, 70(1), 8-12.
Westoby, R., McNamara, K.E., Kumar, R. and Nunn, P.D. 2019. From community-based to locally-led adaptation: evidence from Vanuatu. Ambio, 49(9), 1466-1473.
2018 Academic Publications
Kumar, L., Eliot, I., Nunn, P.D., Stul, T. and McLean, R.F. 2018. Developing a regional-scale index for the indicative susceptibility of Pacific Islands to climate change. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 9(1), 691-702.
Martin, P.C.M., Nunn, P.D., Leon, J. and Tindale, N. 2018. Responding to multiple climate-linked stressors in a remote island context: the example of Yadua Island, Fiji. Climate Risk Management, 21, 7-15.
Nunn, P.D. 2018. Comment on “Learning from paleo-landscapes: Defining the land-use systems of the ancient Malayo-Polynesian homeland” by M.T. Carson and H-c. Hung. Current Anthropology, 57(6), 806-807.
Nunn, P.D. and Betzold, C. 2018. Geography of global climate change: Asia-Pacific human and state security. In: Wallace, D. and Silander, D. (eds). Climate Change, Policy and Security: State and Human Impacts. Oxford: Taylor and Francis, pp 67-85.
Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2018. Understanding climate-human interactions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): implications for future livelihood sustainability. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 10(2), 245-271.
Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2018. Island origins and environments. In: Baldacchino, G. (ed.). The Routledge International Handbook of Island Studies: A World of Islands. London: Routledge, pp 52-71.
Nunn, P.D. and Williams, P. 2018. Drowning islands: climate-change imperatives in the Asia-Pacific region. Text Journal, 52, 1-15.
2017 Academic Publications
Dean, A.R., Green, D. and Nunn, P.D. 2017. Too much sail for a small craft? Donor requirements, scale, and capacity discourses in Kiribati. In: Stratford, E. (ed.). Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations. New York: Routledge, 67-88.
Howes, M., Wortley, L., Potts, R., Dedekorkut-Howes, A., Serrao-Neumann, S., Davidson, J., Smith, T. and Nunn, P.D. 2017. Environmental sustainability: a case of policy implementation failure? Sustainability, 9(2), 165.
Jacobson, C.L., Tuu, T., Tran, P., Sieng, E., Nguon, C., Nong, K., Nunn, P.D. and Smith, T.F. 2017. Community resilience assessment to support climate change adaptation in Cambodia and Viet Nam. APN Science Bulletin, 7(1), 42-49.
Nunn, P.D. 2017. Coastal settings. In: Gilbert, A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Dordrecht: Springer, pp 145-156.
Nunn, P.D., Kohler, A. and Kumar, R. 2017. Identifying and assessing evidence for recent shoreline change attributable to uncommonly rapid sea-level rise in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, northwest Pacific Ocean. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 21(6), 719-730.
Nunn, P.D., Runman, J., Falanruw, M. and Kumar, R. 2017. Culturally grounded responses to coastal change on islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, northwest Pacific Ocean. Regional Environmental Change, 17(4), 959-971.
Scott-Parker, B., Nunn, P.D., Mulgrew, K., Hine, D., Marks, A., Mahar, D. and Tiko, L. 2017. Pacific Islanders’ understanding of climate change: where do they source information and to what extent do they trust it? Regional Environmental Change, 17(4), 1005-1015.
2016 Academic Publications
Goff, J. and Nunn, P.D. 2016. Rapid societal change as a proxy for regional environmental forcing: evidence and explanations for Pacific Island societies in the 14-15th centuries. Island Arc, 25, 305-315.
Hine, D.W., Phillips, W.P., Cooksey, R., Reser, J., Nunn, P.D., Marks A.D.G., Loi, N. and Watt, S. 2016. Preaching to different choirs: how to engage audiences that are dismissive, uncommitted and alarmed about climate change. Global Environmental Change, 36, 1-11.
Janif, S., Nunn, P.D., Geraghty, P., Aalbersberg, W., Thomas, F.R. and Camailakeba, M. 2016. Value of traditional oral narratives in building climate-change resilience: insights from rural communities in Fiji. Ecology and Society, 21(2): 7.
Nunn, P.D. 2016. Australian Aboriginal traditions about coastal change reconciled with postglacial sea-level history: a first synthesis. Environment and History, 22(3): 393-420.
Nunn, P.D. and Reid, N.J. 2016. Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago. Australian Geographer, 47(1), 11-47.
Nunn, P.D., Kumar, L., Eliot, I. and McLean, R.F. 2016. Classifying Pacific islands. Geoscience Letters, 3(1), 1-19.
Nunn, P.D., Mulgrew, K., Scott-Parker, B., Hine, D.W., Marks, A.D.G., Mahar, D. and Maebuta, J. 2016. Spirituality and attitudes towards Nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change adaptation. Climatic Change, 136(3), 477-493.
Stantis, C., Buckley, H.R., Kinaston, R.L., Nunn, P.D., Jaouen, K. and Richards, M.P. 2016. Isotopic evidence of human mobility and diet in a prehistoric/protohistoric Fijian coastal environment (c. 750-150 BP). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159, 478-495.
Stantis, C., Tayles, N., Kinaston, R.L., Cameron, C., Nunn, P.D., Richards, M.P. and Buckley, H.R. 2016. Diet and subsistence in Remote Oceania: an analysis using oral indicators of diet. In: Oxenham, M. and Buckley, H. (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Oxford: Routledge, pp 569-598.
Xue, W., Hine, D.W., Marks, A.D.G., Phillips, W.J., Nunn, P.D. and Zhao, S. 2016. Combining threat and efficacy messaging to increase public engagement with climate change in Beijing, China. Climatic Change, 137(1-2): 43-55.
2015 Academic Publications
Nunn, P.D. 2015. Sea levels, shorelines and settlements on Pacific reef islands. Archaeology in Oceania, 51(2), 91-98.
Nunn, P.D. and Carson, M.T. 2015. Sea-level fall implicated in profound societal change about 2570 cal yr BP (620 BC) in western Pacific island groups. Geo: Geography and Environment, 2(1), 17-32.
Nunn, P.D. and Carson, M.T. 2015. Collapses of island societies from environmental forcing: does history hold lessons for the future? Global Environment, 8, 109-131.
2014 Academic Publications
Gregory, J.M., Church, J.A., Clark, P.U., Payne, A.J., Merrifield, M.A., Nerem, R.S., Nunn, P.D., Pfeffer, W.T. and Stammer, D. 2014. Comment on “Expert assessment of sea-level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300”, by Horton et al. (2014). Quaternary Science Reviews, 97, 193-194.
Hine, D.W., Reser, J.P., Morrison, M., Phillips, W.J., Nunn, P.D. and Cooksey, R. 2014. Audience segmentation and climate change communication: conceptual and methodological considerations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Climate Change (WIREs-CC), 5, 441-459.
Nunn, P.D. 2014. Lashed by sharks, pelted by demons, drowned for apostasy: the value of myths that explain geohazards in the Asia-Pacific region. Asian Geographer, 31(1), 59-82.
Nunn, P.D. 2014. Geohazards and myths: ancient memories of rapid coastal change in the Asia-Pacific region and their value to future adaptation. Geoscience Letters, 1,3. [Highly accessed]
Nunn, P.D., Aalbersberg, W., Lata, S. and Gwilliam, M. 2014. Beyond the core: community governance for climate-change adaptation in peripheral parts of Pacific Island Countries. Regional Environmental Change, 14(1), 221-235.
Robb, K.F. and Nunn, P.D. 2014. Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: insights from the Bā River Valley, northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology, 19(1), 1-11.
Robb, K.F. and Nunn, P.D. 2014. Vatutāqiri: an immense stone-walled fortification on the Vatia Peninsula, northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji. People and Culture in Oceania, 30, 1-19.
Schipper, L., Merli, C. and Nunn, P.D. 2014. Culture, belief and people’s ways of perceiving risk. In: Cannon, T. and Schipper, L. (eds). World Disasters Report 2014. Disasters, Culture and Perceptions of Risk. Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, pp 37-64.
2013 Academic Publications
Church, J.A., Clark, P.U., Cazenave, A., Gregory, J.M., Jevrejeva, S., Levermann, A., Merrifield, M.A., Milne, G.A., Nerem, R.S., Nunn, P.D., Payne, A.J., Pfeffer, W.T., Stammer, D. and Unnikrishnan, A.S. 2013. Sea level change. In: Stocker, T.F., Qin, D., Plattner, G.-K., Tignor, M., Allen, S.K., Boschung, J., Nauels, A., Xia, Y., Bex, V. and Midgley, P.M. (eds). Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 1137-1308.
Church, J.A., Clark, P.U., Cazenave, A., Gregory, J.M., Jevrejeva, S., Levermann, A., Merrifield, M.A., Milne, G.A., Nerem, R.S., Nunn, P.D., Payne, A.J., Pfeffer, W.T., Stammer, D. and Unnikrishnan, A.S. 2013. Sea-level rise by 2100. Science, 342 (6165), 1445.
Dickinson, W.R. and Nunn, P.D. 2013. Petrography of sand tempers in Lapita potsherds from the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu, Fiji. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 4, 15-31.
Hine, D.W., Reser, J., Phillips, W.J., Cooksey, R., Marks, A.D.G., Nunn, P.D., Watt, S. Bradley, G. and Glendon, I. 2013. Identifying climate change interpretive communities in a large Australian sample. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 36, 229-239.
Nunn, P.D. 2013. The end of the Pacific? Effects of sea-level rise on Pacific Island livelihoods. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 34, 143-171.
Nunn, P.D. 2013. Geomorphology. In: Rapaport, M. (editor). The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2nd revised edition, pp. 45-58.
Nunn, P.D. 2013. Comment on “Fijian polygenesis and the Melanesian/Polynesian divide” by David V. Burley. Current Anthropology, 54, 453-454.
Nunn, P.D. and Petchey, F. 2013. Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 4, 21-34.
2012 Academic Publications
d’Aubert, A. and Nunn, P.D. 2012. Furious Winds and Parched Islands: Tropical Cyclones (1558-1970) and Droughts (1722-1987) in the Pacific. Bloomington: XLibris. 358 p.
Lata, S. and Nunn, P.D. 2012. Misperceptions of climate-change risk as barriers to climate-change adaptation: a case study from the Rewa Delta, Fiji. Climatic Change, 110, 169-186.
Nunn, P.D. 2012. Understanding and adapting to sea-level rise. In: Harris, F. (ed.) Global Environmental Issues, 2nd revised edition. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 87-104.
Nunn, P.D. 2012. Na koronivalu ni Bā: upland settlement during the last millennium in the Bā River Valley and Vatia Peninsula, northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Asian Perspectives, 51, 1-21.
Nunn, P.D. 2012. Of giant fish and shaken islands: geological interpretations of euhemeristic myths concerning underwater eruptions and abrupt land movements in the Pacific Islands. Australian Folklore, 27, 27-36.
Nunn, P.D. 2012. Disruption of coastal societies in the Pacific Islands from rapid sea-level fall about AD 1300: new evidence from northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 16, 199-209.
Nunn, P.D. 2012. Environmental change in coastal areas and islands. In: Matthews, J.A. (ed.). The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change. London, SAGE Publications, Volume 1, pp. 282-298.
Robb, K.F. and Nunn, P.D. 2012. Nature and chronology of prehistoric settlement on the Vatia Peninsula, northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 7, 272-281.
Rutherford, J.S., Almond, M.J. and Nunn, P.D. 2012. Analysis of pottery samples from Bourewa, the earliest known Lapita site in Fiji. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 85, 155-159.
Seeto, J., Nunn, P.D. and Sanjana, S. 2012. Human-mediated prehistoric marine extinction in the tropical Pacific? Understanding the presence of Hippopus hippopus (Linn. 1758) in ancient shell middens on the Rove Peninsula, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Geoarchaeology, 27, 2-17.
Walshe, R.A. and Nunn, P.D. 2012. Integration of indigenous knowledge and disaster risk reduction: a case study from Baie Martelli, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 3, 185-194.