Tropical Forests of Oceania : Anthropological Perspectives.
Bell, Joshua A.
Tropical Forests of Oceania : Anthropological Perspectives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages) - Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs . - Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs .
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.
9781925022735
Rain forests-Oceania.
Forest conservation-Oceania.
Forests and forestry-Oceania.
Human ecology-Oceania.
Electronic books.
QH86 .T76 2015
Tropical Forests of Oceania : Anthropological Perspectives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages) - Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs . - Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs .
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.
9781925022735
Rain forests-Oceania.
Forest conservation-Oceania.
Forests and forestry-Oceania.
Human ecology-Oceania.
Electronic books.
QH86 .T76 2015