• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Tropical forests of Oceania : anthropological perspectives
  • Contributor: Bell, Joshua Alexander [Editor]; West, Paige [Editor]; Filer, Colin [Editor]
  • Published: Acton, A.C.T.: ANU Press, [2015]
  • Published in: Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 10
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 264 pages)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781925022735; 1925022730
  • Keywords: Rain forests Oceania. ; Forest conservation Oceania. ; Forests and forestry Oceania. ; Human ecology Oceania. ; Human ecology ; Forests and forestry ; Forest conservation ; Rain forests ; NATURE ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Oceania ; Electronic books
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  • Description: Introduction / Joshua A. Bell, Paige West and Colin Filer -- Wildlands, deserted bays and other bushy metaphors of Pacific place / Alexander Mawyer -- Non-pristine forests : a long-term history of land transformation in the western Solomons / Edvard Hviding -- Forests of gold : from mining to logging (and back again) / Jamon Alex Halvaksz -- The impact of mining development on settlement patterns, firewood availability and forest structure in Porgera / Jerry K. Jacka -- The structural violence of resource extraction in the Purari Delta / Joshua A. Bell -- The fate of Crater Mountain : forest conservation in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea / Paige West and Enock Kale -- How April Salumei became the REDD queen / Colin Filer -- Representational excess in recent attempts to acquire forest carbon in the Kamula Doso area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea / Michael Wood -- 'Evergreen' and REDD+ in the forests of Oceania / Jennifer Gabriel
  • Access State: Open Access