Acknowledgements
The authors wish to express their gratitude to:
- Mark Hagers
Nijmegen the Netherlands, design and programming.
- Nei Tabera Ni Kai, video company, Bairiki, Kiribati
for their kind permission to use the video fragments.
- Prof. Ad Borsboom, centre for Pacific Studies
University of Nijmegen for his support.
- European Centre on Pacific Issues (ECSIEP)
Zeist, the Netherlands.
Some texts have been written, translated or revised by volunteers on Tarawa, like:
- Elsien Gale
(VSO, advisor TTI, Betio, now U.K.)
- Emma Hibling
(VSO, Peoples lawyer, now U.K.)
- Michael Phillips
(VSO, advisor Ministry of environment, now U.K.)
Marie Jose Bergs(VSO, physiotherapist,Hospital Tungaru, now the Netherlands)
- Michael Anderson
(AVI, ministry of Labour, now Australia)
- Catherine Passmore
(VSO, scienceteacher at Nonouti,now U.K.)
- Jo and Bruce Oakley
(AVI,teachers KTC, now Australia)
- Genevieve & Chris Johnson
(Australia, crew of Odyssey, now Maldives)
We also want to thank
- Maarten van Aalst, the Netherlands, Climate-expert, Worldbank
(for advice and use of some of his excellent pictures)
- Tony Whincup
(New Zealand, for use of some excellent posters)
- NASA,
(USA, thanks for use of the satellite photo on frontpage)
Aiso Vos (the Netherlands, SAPHE Consultant for OEC, Japan)
And
- Huibert Pollmann
(the Netherlands, video and digitising, Next Novum)
- Roger Thiel
(the Netherlands, translation of many stories)
- Esther Tannemaat
(the Netherlands, translation)
- Yvonne Bongaerts
(the Netherlands, translation)
- Ton Groos
(the Netherlands, translation)
- Jan Arend Brans
(the Netherlands, computer and advice)
- Madeleen Helmer
(the Netherlands, advice, Red Cross)