The governance of common property in the Pacific Region / edited by Peter Larmour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larmour, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commons--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Commons.

Land tenure--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Land tenure.

Natural resources, Communal--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Natural resources, Communal.

Right of property--Pacific Area--Congresses.

Right of property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a region where mining, forestry, fish and other primary resources are so basic to income, employment and national prosperity, an understanding of rights to land, water and minerals is fundamental.

Contents:

Preliminary pages; Introduction - Peter Larmour; Changing forms of communal tenure - R. Gerard Ward; Resolving property issues as a precondition for growth: access to land in the Pacific islands - Satish Chand and Ron Duncan; It's the land, stupid! The moral economy of resource ownership in Papua New Guinea - Chris Ballard; Customary land tenure and common/public rights to minerals in Papua New Guinea - Andrew A.L lakau; Improving security of access to customary-owned land in Melanesia - Ron Duncan and Rod Duncan; Common property, Maori identity and the Treaty of Waitangi - Sir Hugh Kawharu

Common property and regional sovereignty - Peter J. UsherProperty, sovereignty and self-determination in Australia -Henry Reynolds; Common property regimes in Aboriginal Australia: totemism revisited -Deborah Bird Rose; Cooperative approaches to marine resource management in the South Pacific - Colin Hunt; Common property management of highly migratory fish stocks: tuna in the Pacific - Janaline Oh; Common property conflict and resolution: Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea - Kilyali Kalit and Elspeth Young; Author index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781922144751

1922144754

OCLC:

863065201

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459932