| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 512 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Solomons Forests -- Chapter 2. To Open the Forest -- Chapter 3. A Great Coconut Estate -- Chapter 4. From the Shortlands to Santa Cruz: Beginning the Timber Industry -- Chapter 5. The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company -- Chapter 6. World War Two: Focus on Forests -- Chapter 7. Domestic Needs and Overseas Markets, c. 1950-1963 -- Chapter 8. The Government is but a Stranger -- Chapter 9. The Forestry Department and the Control of Species, c. 1960-1980 |
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Chapter 10. Contest for the Forests, c. 1963-1985 -- Chapter 11. Attempts at Control? c. 1980-1990 -- Chapter 12. Aiding the Forests -- Chapter 13. Provincial Ambitions, Community Aspirations: The Western Islands, 1985-1995 -- Chapter 14. Provincial Ambitions, Community Aspirations: Central and Eastern Islands, 1985-1995 -- Chapter 15. Profits and Loss, c. 1982-1996 -- Chapter 16. Contested State: Contest of States, 1993-1997 -- Conclusion. The Forest, Contested and Uncontested -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-488) and index |
| Notes |
Print version |
| Subject |
Forests and forestry -- Solomon Islands -- History
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Forest policy -- Solomon Islands -- History
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Forests
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Forest policy
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Forests and forestry
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia |
| Subject |
Solomon Islands
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004533340 |
| ISBN |
0004119606 |
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9780004119601 |
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9781912186570 |
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1912186578 |
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9004475850 |
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9789004475854 |
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