Title: Islands of rainforest :
Authors: Hviding, Edvard.; Bayliss-Smith, Tim.; University of London.
Date: 2000
Publisher: Ashgate,
Physical description: xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: "An ethnographically-based study which examines rainforest practices and conflicting land uses from the indigenous standpoint. Agroforestry, logging, conservation and eco-tourism are viewed in historical context, from precolonial production systems through colonial developments to modern encounters with Asian logging companies."--Jacket.
Contents: Conceptualising the Rainforest -- Conceptualising Melanesian Agroforestry -- Life on the Lands of Marovo -- Above the Seashore: Land Use in Marovo -- The Wet and the Dry: Marovo Agroforestry at European Contact -- The Great Transformations, 1880-1910 -- Colonialism, Coconut Overlay and the "Age of Development" -- Towards the Twenty-first Century: Adapting the Indigenous System -- The Forest as Commodity: Selling Logs to Asia -- After Logging: Reforestation--or What? -- Small is Beautiful? Steps Towards Sustainable Forestry -- Rumours of Utopia: Conservation and Eco-tourism -- Epilogue: Rainforest Narratives.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agroforestry--Solomon Islands.; Ecotourism--Solomon Islands.; Logging--Solomon Islands.; Rain forests--Solomon Islands--Management.; Rain forests--Solomon Islands.; Sustainable forestry--Solomon Islands.