Marine gold and atoll livelihoods: The rise and fall of the bêche-de-mer trade on Ontong Java, Solomon Islands

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-20

  Christensen, Andreas Egelund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

B che de mer; Globalization; Livelihood; Natural resource management; Ontong Java; Solomon Islands; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; GOLD; MARINE RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SMALL ISLAND STATE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUBSISTENCE; TRADE; VULNERABILITY;

ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA];

EID: 79951739979     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2011.01343.x     Document Type: Article

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