Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies [and] Institute of Pacific Studies, 1994
ISBN 10: 0958330018 ISBN 13: 9780958330015
Anbieter: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 240 pp., bibliography, index. corner bumped. This authoritative set of essays on land tenure and development in the Pacific cover Hawai'i, Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Niue, Solomon Islands, FIji, Cook Islands, Tonga, Naur, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Australia. Issues covered include indigenous versus settler rights; rights to marine and aquatic resources; the effects of social change on the influence of absentee land owners on land tenure; customary land and the problem of collateral for agricultural credit; chiefly versus non-chiefly rights; and land for productivity and economic growth.