Islands of rainforest
Subtitle: agroforestry, logging, and eco-tourism in Solomon Islands
By: Edvard Hviding and Tim Bayliss-Smith.
Contributors: Bayliss-Smith, Tim.
Series: SOAS studies in development geography
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Rain forests -- Solomon Islands.; Ecotourism -- Solomon Islands.; Agroforestry -- Solomon Islands.; Sustainable forestry -- Solomon Islands.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-363).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Conceptualising the Rainforest 2 Conceptualising Melanesian Agroforestry 3 Life on the Lands of Marovo 4 Above the Seashore: Land Use in Marovo 5 The Wet and the Dry: Marovo Agroforestry at European Contact 6 The Great Transformations, 1880-1910 7 Colonialism, Coconut Overlay and the "Age of Developmenf' 8 Towards the Twenty-first Century:; title: Adapting the Indigenous System 9 The Forest as Commodity: Selling Logs to Asia 10 After Logging: Reforestation - or What? 11 Small is Beautiful? Steps Towards Sustainable Forestry 12 Rumours of Utopia: Conservation and Eco-tourism 13 Epilogue: Rainforest Narratives.