SOLOMON ISLANDS: LOGGING DAMAGES MORE THAN THE ENVIRONMENTSam Seke
Logging rain forests in the Solomon Islands.Reports that in 8 to 15 years, the Solomon Islands could have no viable forests. Increased logging especially by foreign companies.P.G.Environment
In recent years, various forms of inter/transnational state-building have become increasingly common as a way of managing the perceived risk posed by dysfunctional governance in so-called fragile states to Western security. In Solomon Islands, the Australian government has led a robust and expansive...
Logging on Guadalcanal, the largest island province in Solomon Islands is slight compared to levels of exploitation in other provinces. But even there, logging activities are increasing because landowners cannot resist the lures of royalties and promises of infrastructure development by logging companies;...
In Solomon Islands, logging rents remain with foreign companies and political elites, and hardly trickle down to rural communities. Local benefits of logging are minimal and ephemeral, whereas the environmental and social costs are significant and long-lasting. Addressing the negative impacts of ...
T. (2000). Rumble in the jungle: land, culture and (un) sustainable logging in Solomon Islands. In Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific , A. Hooper (ed.), pp. 88–97. Canberra: Asia Pacific.Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara. `Rumble in the Jungle: Land, Culture and (Un)...
Set against the backdrop of a recent low-level civil war in which distributional tensions over natural resources played an important role, this paper draws upon Solomon Islands' experience with commercial logging, and its more limited experience to date with large-scale mining, to ask what the ...
Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-tourism in Solomon Islands. (Book Reviews).Barlow, Kathleen
They are often the first to feel dissatisfaction with logging and mining and it is such dissatisfaction which has fuelled civil unrest, from family break-ups to sabotage of machinery to civil war, in some communities. It may thus be useful for companies to more carefully monitor the effects ...
They are often the first to feel dissatisfaction with logging and mining and it is such dissatisfaction which has fuelled civil unrest, from family break-ups to sabotage of machinery to civil war, in some communities. It may thus be useful for companies to more carefully monitor the effects ...