Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development

Ahmad Kusworo

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 9
• This monograph explores the ways in which people experience 'development' and how development shapes and maintains their lives. The discussion begins ... Lees meer

Reite Plants

Porer Nombo, James Leach

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 4
• Reite Plants is a documentation and discussion of the uses of plants by speakers of the Nekgini language, a people who reside in the hinterland of the... Lees meer

Landlock

Patrik Oskarsson

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 14
• Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refinin... Lees meer

Gendering the Field

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 6
• The chapters in this book offer concrete examples from all over the world to show how community livelihoods in mineral-rich tracts can be more sustain... Lees meer

Selling the Sea, Fishing for Power

Dedi Supriadi Adhuri

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 8
• By analysing various conflicts, this book discusses the social, political, economic and legal attributes that are attached to the practice of traditio... Lees meer

Tropical Forests Of Oceania

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 10
• The tropical forests of Oceania are an enduring source of concern for indigenous communities, for the migrants who move to them, for the states that e... Lees meer

Island Rivers

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 13
• Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say a... Lees meer

Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 12
• Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on ... Lees meer

Navigating the Future

Monica Minnegal, Peter D Dwyer

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 11
• Navigating the Future draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, to explor... Lees meer

Customary Land Tenure & Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 3
• The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the ... Lees meer

Fishing for Fairness

Michael Fabinyi

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 7
• Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to... Lees meer

The Lihir Destiny

Nicholas A Bainton

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph | nr. 5
• The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the 'Lihi... Lees meer