Environmental conservation and mining: Between experience and expectation in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-313

  West, Paige ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Development; Expectations; Maimafu; Mining; Papua New Guinea; Porgera

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GOLD MINE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT;

EASTERN HIGHLANDS; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 33748311924     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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