Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997

by Judith A. Bennett

Pacific Forest explores the use of the forests of the Solomon Islands from the prehistoric period up to the end of 1997, when much of the indigenous commercial forest had been logged. It is the first study of the history of the forest in any Pacific Island; the first analysis of the indigenous and British colonial perceptions of the Melanesian forest; and the first critical analysis for this region, not only of colonial forest policies but of later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912186543
• ISBN13: 9781912186549
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: White Horse Press
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"