History of the forestry industry in solomon islands: The case of guadalcanal

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-246

  Wairiu, Morgan ^a  

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EID: 61249707648     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223340701461684     Document Type: Note

References (54)

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2. Solomon Islands Government, Solomon Islands Forestry Management: national forest resources assessment, report (Honiara 2003), 14
3. Analyses of the ethnic, tension or conflict in Solomon Islands include: A.V. Hughes, Solomon Islands: the Guadalcanal insurgency and the Policy and Structural Reform Programme, Solomon Islands Government (Honiara 1999)
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28. For detailed accounts, see Judith A. Bennett, Pacific Forest: a history of resource control and contest in Solomon Islands, c.1800-1997 (Leiden/Cambridge 2000)
29. and Tarrisius Tara Kabutaulaka, 'Paths in the jungle: landowners and the struggle for control of Solomon Islands' logging industry', PhD thesis, Australian National University (Canberra 2001). Kabutaulaka cited specific examples of logging operations and problems from Western, Central and Makira Provinces but not from Guadalcanal
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34. Bennett, Pacific Forest, 143
35. Solomon Islands Government, Solomon Islands Forest Management, 50
36. From the author's personal observation and knowledge
37. P. Sheehan, 'The Solomon Islands Forest Sector', Pacific Economic Bulletin 15:1 (2000), 126-31
38. Commonwealth of Australia, Pacific 2020: challenges and opportunities for growth (Canberra 2005), 117
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40. T.T. Kabutaulaka. 'Rumble in the jungle: land, culture and (un) sustainable logging in Solomon Islands', in A. Hooper (ed.), Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific (Canberra 2000), 88-97
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42. For the employment of Malaitans in logging, cf. Ian Scales, 'The coup nobody noticed: the Solomon Islands Western Slate Movement in 2000' in this issue
43. Sheehan, 'The Solomon Islands forest sector', 126-31
44. Moore, Happy Isles in Crisis, 59, 77
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50. Wairiu, 'Forest Certification in Solomon Islands' 137-61
51. Greenpeace, Working together, 6-9
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53. Department of Forestry, Environment and Conservation, National Forest Resource Assessment Update 2006, 10
54. Wairiu, Forestry Case Study; logging and conflict in Birao Ward. East Guadalcanal (Honiara 2005), 1-16