Vanuatu Case Study - mainstreaming environmental considerations and traditional knowledge and practices into policies and programmes for the mele catchment (Tagabe River) area in Vanuatu / written and compiled by Matt McIntyre and Craig Wilson in associa

The Government of Vanuatu approached SPREP in 2001 to consider providing technical and advisory assistance in assessing the aggregated issues of land use change, rural development, catchment management and cumulative infrastructure and coastal degradation in the Mele catchment, immediately northwest of the municipality of Port Vila, Efate, Vanuatu.