The portable sawmill and other challenges to REDD+ in Papua New Guinea

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 128-139

  Dalsgaard, Steffen ^a   Pedersen, Marianne ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon trading; Conservation; Papua New Guinea; REDD+; Technology

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84926452681     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apv.12086     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Al Jazeera (2009) Carbon cowboys: People & power investigates fake carbon offset certificates being sold in Papua New Guinea. Accessed 2 March 2014, from website http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2009/12/20091296040431607.html
2. Angelsen, A., M. Brockhaus, W. Sunderlin and L. Verchot (eds.) (2012) Analysing REDD+: Challenges and choices, Bogor: CIFOR.
3. Babon, A. (2011) Snapshot of REDD+ in Papua New Guinea. CIFOR infobrief 40, August 2011.
4. Babon, A. and G.Y. Gowae (2013) The context of REDD+ in Papua New Guinea: Drivers, agents and institutions. CIFOR Occasional Paper 89. Bogor, Indonesia.
5. Bamford, S. (2002) On being natural in the rainforest marketplace, Social Analysis 46(1): 35-50.
6. Bird, N., A. Wells, F. van Helden and R. Turia (2007) What can be learned from the past? A history of the forestry sector in Papua New Guinea, London: Overseas Development Institute. Papua New Guinea Forest Studies 1.
7. Blom, B., T. Sunderland and D. Murdiyarso (2010) Getting REDD to work locally: Lessons learned from integrated conservation and development projects, Environmental Science & Policy 13(2): 164-172.
8. Carrier, J. and P. West (eds.) (2009) Virtualism, governance and practice, Oxford: Berghahn.
9. Cotula, L. and J. Mayers (2009) Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought?, London: IIED.
10. DNPM (2010) Papua New Guinea development strategic plan 2010-2030 - Our guide to success, Port Moresby: Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM).
11. Ellis, D. (1999) Representations of local people by practitioners of conservation and small scale timber harvesting in Papua-New-Guinea, in S. Bahuchet, D. Bley, H. Pagezy and N. Vernazza-Licht (eds.), L'Homme et la forêt tropicale, pp. 99-112. Marseille: Société d'Écologie Humaine.
12. Filer, C. (1997a) A statistical profile of Papua New Guinea's log export industry, in C. Filer (ed.), The political economy of forest management in Papua New Guinea, pp. 207-248. Boroko: National Research Institute. NRI Monograph 32.
13. Filer, C. (ed.) (1997b) The political economy of forest management in Papua New Guinea, Boroko: National Research Institute. NRI Monograph 32.
14. Filer, C. (2011) The new land grab in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 6-8 April 2011. Accessed 7 May 2013, from website http://www.actnowpng.org/sites/default/files/The%20new%20land%20grab%20in%20Papua%20New%20Guinea%20Colin%20Filer.pdf
15. Filer, C. (2012) Why green grabs don't work in Papua New Guinea, Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2): 599-617.
16. Filer, C., R. Keenan, B. Allen and J. McAlpine (2009) Deforestation and forest degradation in Papua New Guinea, Annals of Forest Science 66(8): 813-824.
17. Filer, C. and M. Wood (2012) The creation and dissolution of private property in forest carbon: A case study from Papua New Guinea, Human Ecology 40(5): 665-677.
18. Fingleton, J. (ed.) (2005) Privatising land in the Pacific, Canberra: The Australia Institute. Discussion Paper 80.
19. Flannery, T. (1998) Throwim way leg, Melbourne: Text Publishing.
20. Gosarevski, S., H. Hughes and S. Windybank (2004) Is Papua New Guinea viable?, Pacific Economic Bulletin 19(1): 134-148.
21. Gridneff, I. (2009) PNG's PM nephew 'pushing carbon deals'. The Age, 3 July. Accessed 2 March 2014, from website http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/pngs-pm-nephew-pushing-carbon-deals-20090703-d7g8.html
22. Holzknecht, H., R. James and P. Kanowski (2012) A review of the use of portable sawmills in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Canberra: ACIAR.
23. Howes, S. (2009) Cheap but not easy: The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Papua New Guinea, Pacific Economic Bulletin 24(1): 130-143.
24. Hunt, C. (2001) Executive summary, in C. Hunt (ed.), Production, privatisation and preservation in Papua New Guinea forestry, Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry series, pp. i-xi. London: International Institute for Environment and Development.
25. Ketan, J. (2000) Leadership and political culture, in M. Rynkiewich and R. Seib (eds.), Politics in Papua New Guinea: Continuities, changes and challenges, Point Series 24, pp. 44-86. Goroka: The Melanesian Institute.
26. Lang, C. (2010) REDD projects in Papua New Guinea 'legally untenable'. REDD-Monitor.org. Accessed 17 June 2013, from website http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/09/14/redd-projects-in-papua-new-guinea-legally-untenable/
27. Laurance, W.F., T. Kakul, R.J. Keenan etal. (2010) Predatory corporations, failing governance, and the fate of forests in Papua New Guinea, Conservation Letters 4(2): 95-100.
28. Leggett, M. and H. Lovell (2012) Community perceptions of REDD+: A case study from Papua New Guinea, Climate Policy 12(1): 115-134.
29. Lindemalm, F. and H. Rogers (2001) Impacts of conventional logging and portable sawmill logging operations on tree diversity in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Australian Forestry 64(1): 26-31.
30. Louman, B. (1996) The use of small portable sawmills in forest management in Papua New Guinea, London: Overseas Development Administration. Rural Development Forestry Network Paper 19d.
31. Martin, R. (1997) Small-scale community-based forestry, in C. Filer (ed.), The political economy of forest management in Papua New Guinea, pp. 269-292. Boroko: National Research Institute. NRI Monograph 32.
32. May, R. (2013) Papua New Guinea: From coup to reconciliation, Journal of Democracy 24(1): 165-171.
33. Murdiyarso, D., M. Brockhaus, W. Sunderlin and L. Verchot (2012) Some lessons learned from the first generation of REDD+ activities, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4(6): 678-685.
34. Norman, D. (1988) The design of everyday things, New York: Basic Books.
35. Novotny, V. (2010) Rain forest conservation in a tribal world: Why forest dwellers prefer loggers to conservationists, Biotropica 42(5): 546-549.
36. Pedersen, M. (2013) Conservation complexities: Conservationists' and local landowners' different perceptions of development and conservation in Sandaun Provinc, Papua New Guinea, Canberra: Australian National University. SSGM Discussion Paper 2013/7.
37. Petilani, O. (2004) Improved logging and portable sawmill practices in Papua New Guinea. MA research thesis. Institute of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne.
38. Randerson, J. (2011) Material matters: Stories of learning technology transfer, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 25(2): 227-241.
39. Rogers, H. (2010) Impacts of portable-sawmill logging on stand structure and regeneration in the lowland forests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Australian Forestry 73(1): 12-23.
40. Shearman, P., J. Bryan, J. Ash, P. Hunnam, B. Mackey and B. Lokes (2008) The state of the forests of Papua New Guinea: Mapping the extent and condition of forest cover and measuring the drivers of forest change in the period 1972-2002, Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea.
41. Strathern, M. (1988) The gender of the gift, Berkeley: University of California Press.
42. Sullivan, N. (2003) The wape, after the devil fish: Culture and the conservation of Scott's Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus scottae), Lae: Tenkile Conservation Alliance.
43. Sunderlin, W., A.D. Ekaputri, E.O. Sills etal. (2014) The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground. CIFOR Occasional Paper 104. Bogor, Indonesia.
44. The Age (2006) Portable sawmill helps PNG forest tribes. Melbourne: The Age. Accessed 2 March 2014, from website http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Portable-sawmill-helps-PNG-forest-tribes/2006/03/16/1142098586804.html
45. van Helden, F. (2005) Lessons learned from community-based conservation in Papua New Guinea. Adelbert Mountains Forest Conservation Program, The Nature Conservation in partnership with WWF Forests of New Guinea Program. Accessed 16 November 2012, from website http://www.sprep.org/att/IRC/eCOPIES/Countries/Papua_New_Guinea/50.pdf
46. van Helden, F. (2009) 'The report was written for money to come', in J. Carrier and P. West (eds.), Virtualism, governance and practice, pp. 155-176. Oxford: Berghahn.
47. Were, G. (2013) On the materials of mats: Thinking through design in a Melanesian society, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(3): 581-599.
48. West, P. (2006) Conservation is our government now, Durham: Duke University Press.