ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Tropical Forests of Oceania : Anthropological Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia-Pacific Environment MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022735
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tropical Forests of OceaniaLOC classification:
  • QH86 .T76 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wildlands, Deserted Bays and Other Bushy Metaphors of Pacific Place -- 3. Non-Pristine Forests: A Long-Term History of Land Transformation in the Western Solomons -- 4. Forests of Gold: From Mining to Logging (and Back Again) -- 5. The Impact of Mining Development on Settlement Patterns, Firewood Availability and Forest Structure in Porgera -- 6. The Structural Violence of Resource Extraction in the Purari Delta -- 7. The Fate of Crater Mountain: Forest Conservation in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- 8. How April Salumei Became the REDD Queen -- 9. Representational Excess in Recent Attempts to Acquire Forest Carbon in the Kamula Doso Area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea -- 10. 'Evergreen' and REDD+ in the Forests of Oceania.
Summary: Grounded in the perspective of political ecology, contributors to this volume approach forests as socially alive spaces produced by a confluence of local histories and global circulations. In doing so, they collectively explore the multiple ways in which these forests come into view and therefore into being.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wildlands, Deserted Bays and Other Bushy Metaphors of Pacific Place -- 3. Non-Pristine Forests: A Long-Term History of Land Transformation in the Western Solomons -- 4. Forests of Gold: From Mining to Logging (and Back Again) -- 5. The Impact of Mining Development on Settlement Patterns, Firewood Availability and Forest Structure in Porgera -- 6. The Structural Violence of Resource Extraction in the Purari Delta -- 7. The Fate of Crater Mountain: Forest Conservation in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- 8. How April Salumei Became the REDD Queen -- 9. Representational Excess in Recent Attempts to Acquire Forest Carbon in the Kamula Doso Area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea -- 10. 'Evergreen' and REDD+ in the Forests of Oceania.

Grounded in the perspective of political ecology, contributors to this volume approach forests as socially alive spaces produced by a confluence of local histories and global circulations. In doing so, they collectively explore the multiple ways in which these forests come into view and therefore into being.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.