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Shifting places, contested spaces: Land and indentity politics in the Pacific
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Shifting Places, Contested Spaces: Land and Identity Politics in the Pacific
This paper considers the contemporary problematics surrounding the identification of persons with land which is one of the central features of Pacific societies. The movements of people and conflicts of control over land and other resources in the context of emergent capitalism have produced these problematics. A local contrast is drawn between the Western and Southern Highlands Provinces in Papua New Guinea ...
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Forest exploitation in Papua New Guinea.(Special Issue: Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Perspectives from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.)
The Contemporary Pacific
; Papua New Guinea has a total land area of 46.2 million hectares and a population of about 4 million people. Of this land, 97 percent is privately owned by the customary owners. Forest covers some 78 percent or 36.125 million hectares of the total land mass, ranging from mangrove forests along the
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A Glance at Papua New Guinea.
Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
; Papua New Guinea is located on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and is 160 kilometers north of Australia. The western half of the island is Irian Jaya, a province of Indonesia. Papua New Guinea comprises both the mainland and some 600 offshore islands. It has a total land area of
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Lines in the sand: with ACF's assistance, local communities in PNG begin to map out their own future, aiming for self reliance.(Australian Conservation Foundation; Papua New Guinea)
Habitat Australia
; ECOLOGICALLY, Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most exciting countries. Home to one of the world's largest remaining rainforest expanses and surrounded by diverse coral reef systems that have been compared to the Amazon rainforests in their richness, PNG represents more than five per cent of
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Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea.(Book review)
The Contemporary Pacific
; Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea, edited by Lawrence Kalinoe and James Leach. Wantage, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004. ISBN 9-9545572-1-2; xi + 139 pages, table, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. This
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