Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997This 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Solomons Forests | 4 |
Chapter 2 To Open the Forest | 18 |
Chapter 3 A Great Coconut Estate | 36 |
Beginning the Timber Industry | 62 |
Chapter 5 The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company | 91 |
Focus on Forests | 115 |
Chapter 7 Domestic Needs and Overseas Markets c 19501963 | 142 |
Chapter 12 Aiding the Forests | 254 |
The Western Islands 19851995 | 277 |
Central and Eastern Islands 19851995 | 298 |
Chapter 15 Profits and Loss c 19821996 | 319 |
Contest of States 19931997 | 339 |
Conclusion The Forest Contested and Uncontested | 361 |
Afterword | 379 |
Appendices | 384 |
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