Study Guide and Teacher’s Manual: Reef and Rainforest – An Environmental Encyclopedia and Wiki of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands – An Open Education Resource Project

The author of Reef and Rainforest and of this Study Guide and Teacher’s Manual, Edvard Hviding, is professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Since 1986, he has carried out more than 3 years of field research in the Marovo Lagoon of Solomon Islands, where to this day he continues his work with the Marovo people. Reef and Rainforest, an encyclopedia of the local knowledge of the coral reef and rainforest environments of the lagoon, was written and published upon the Marovo people’s request. It is hoped that it will encourage young Solomon Islanders to continue to learn from the knowledgeable men and women of their villages, and that it may serve as a catalyst for similar undertakings in the Pacific Islands or elsewhere. Reef and Rainforest is the first publication in UNESCO’s Knowledges of Nature series. This book resource builds on Edvard Hviding, 2010. Study Guide and Teacher’s Manual: Reef and Rainforest – An Environmental Encyclopedia of Marovo, Lagoon Solomon Islands – A Pilot Project in Vernacular Environmental Education for the Pacific Islands. UNESCO: Paris, 40 pp.