Pacific Forest

A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, C. 1800-1997
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11960-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1249 g

This book addresses the contending views of the uses of Solomon Island forest. Ranging from an examination of the interaction between the first settlers and their forest, the book goes on to analyse the attitudes of the British administrators, planters, and missionaries. The colonial government sought to protect the resource, but neglected to consider the wishes of the forest’s inhabitants in planning for its future economic use. The independent governments failed to protect the dwindling forest on customary land in the face of accelerating demands from their own people and of Asian-based logging companies, while non-governmental organisations and aid-donors have tried to invoke a more conservative regime of forest use.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Entwaldung

Über Autor(innen)

Judith A. Bennett is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.