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Pacific Forest explores the use of the forests of the Solomon Islands from the prehistoric period up to the end of 1997, when much of the indigenous commercial forest had been logged. It is the first study of the history of the forest in any Pacific Island; the first analysis of the indigenous and British colonial perceptions of the Melanesian forest; and the first critical analysis for this region, not only of colonial forest policies but of later policies and practices which made the governments of independence exploiters of their own people. Pacific Forest addresses a range of evidence drawn from several disciplines, and is a major contribution to environmental history.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Solomons Forests
Chapter 2. To Open the Forest
Chapter 3. A Great Coconut Estate
Chapter 4. From the Shortlands to Santa Cruz: Beginning the Timber Industry
Chapter 5. The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company
Chapter 6. World War Two: Focus on Forests
Chapter 7. Domestic Needs and Overseas Markets, c. 1950-1963
Chapter 8. The Government is but a Stranger ...
Chapter 9. The Forestry Department and the Control of Species, c. 1960-1980
Chapter 10. Contest for the Forests, c. 1963-1985
Chapter 11. Attempts at Control? c. 1980-1990
Chapter 12. Aiding the Forests
Chapter 13. Provincial Ambitions, Community Aspirations: The Western Islands, 1985-1995
Chapter 14. Provincial Ambitions, Community Aspirations: Central and Eastern Islands, 1985-1995
Chapter 15. Profits and Loss, c. 1982-1996
Chapter 16. Contested State: Contest of States, 1993-1997
Conclusion. The Forest, Contested and Uncontested
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
