Ironies of organization: Landowners, land registration, and Papua New Guinea's mining and petroleum industry

Human Organization

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-48

  Golub, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization; Kinship; Land tenure; Mining; Papua New Guinea

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; GLOBALIZATION; LAND REGISTRATION; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNER; LIBERALIZATION; PETROLEUM; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

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

EID: 43249134535     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.66.1.157563342241q348     Document Type: Article

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