GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE AT THE PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS

At the end of May 1991, Honolulu was the venue of the XVII Pacific Science Congress. It was the most recent of the major gatherings, every four years, of the Pacific Science Association, now over seventy years old. The meeting was attended by more than 1500 scientists from over 50 countries. The programme, with the overall theme 'The Challenge of Change', was built around six sections among which global environmental change in the Pacific figured prominently indeed.