Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in the 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
Solomons Forests | 4 |
Tables Table 1 Major forest types found in Solomon Islands | 9 |
Maps Map 1 Solomon Islands c 1978 | 15 |
To Open the Forest | 18 |
A Great Coconut Estate | 36 |
Shortland Islands | 70 |
The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company | 91 |
Vanikolo | 105 |
Timber tracts on public land of Solomon Islands 1968 exclusive of declared forest areas | 168 |
Forest areas declared in 1968 exclusive of land purchased by the government | 173 |
Contest for the Forests c 19631985 | 209 |
Eastern New Georgia Islands | 221 |
Attempts at Control? c 19801990 | 236 |
Aiding the Forests | 254 |
West New Georgia Islands | 283 |
Choiseul | 291 |
Focus on Forests | 115 |
Savo and Florida with some wartime bases | 124 |
Domestic Needs and Overseas Markets c 19501963 | 142 |
Guadalcanal | 152 |
The Government is but a Stranger | 163 |
Santa Isabel | 295 |
Malaita | 301 |
Makira | 308 |
Solomon Islands Forest Estate 1987 | 353 |
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