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Author Hviding, Edvard

Title Islands of Rainforest : Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands
Published Milton : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (404 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals Ser
Routledge Revivals Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions; 1 Conceptualising the Rainforest; 2 Conceptualising Melanesian Agroforestry; 3 Life on the Lands of Marovo; 4 Above the Seashore: Land Use in Marovo; 5 The Wet and the Dry: Marovo Agroforestry at European Contact; 6 The Great Transformations, 1880-1910; 7 Colonialism, Coconut Overlay and the "Age of Development"; 8 Towards the Twenty-first Century: Adapting the Indigenous System; 9 The Forest as Commodity: Selling Logs to Asia
10 After Logging: Reforestation -- or What?11 Small is Beautiful? Steps Towards Sustainable Forestry; 12 Rumours of Utopia: Conservation and Eco-tourism; 13 Epilogue: Rainforest Narratives; Notes to Chapters; Glossary of Marovo Words; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rain forests -- Solomon Islands
Agroforestry -- Solomon Islands
Ecotourism -- Solomon Islands
Sustainable forestry -- Solomon Islands
Agroforestry
Ecotourism
Rain forests
Sustainable forestry
Solomon Islands
Form Electronic book
Author Bayliss-Smith, Tim
ISBN 9781351778602
1351778609
9781351778596
1351778595
9781351778589
1351778587
9781315200286
1315200287