Author: J. R. F. HansellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reconnaissance study describing the environmental features of the Solomon Islands indicating where agricultural development can take place.
Land Resources of the Solomon Islands: Introduction and recommendations
Author: J. R. F. HansellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reconnaissance study describing the environmental features of the Solomon Islands indicating where agricultural development can take place.
Land Resources of Solomon Islands
Author: J. R. F. HansellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Land Resource Study
Author: Wealth of the Solomons
Author: Judith A. BennettPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824810788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Du site de l'éd.: "The history of the Solomon Islands is in itself an intriguing story, and Dr. Bennett tells it more than well. The depth and breadth of the work is impressive in at least two respects. First, it covers events in the Solomons from initial European contact in the middle-1500s to the country's emergence as an independent and sovereign state in 1978. Second, all facets of colonial history are covered; to name only a few: the early contact period, the whaling trade, the development of plantations, the nature of British colonial rule, and missionization. Considering the scope of this volume, it represents a definitive history of the Solomon Islands, and it will remain so for many years to come."
Land Resource Bibliography
Author: The Naturalist and His 'beautiful Islands'
Author: David Russell LawrencePublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925022021
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.
Solomon Islands, Agricultural Research, Extension, and Support Facilities Project
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands
Author: Dieter Mueller-DomboisPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441986863
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
Written by the leading authorities on the plant diversity and ecology of the Pacific islands, this book is a magisterial synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is organized by island group, and includes information on geography, geology, phytogeographic relationships, and human influences on vegetation. Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands features over 400 color photographs, plus dozens of maps and climate diagrams. The authors’ efforts in assembling the existing information into an integrated, comprehensive book will be welcomed by biogeographers, plant ecologists, conservation biologists, and all scientists with an interest in island biology.
Sea Level Changes And Their Effects, Ocean And Atmosphere Pacific: Oap 95
Author: John NoyePublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814495611
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book contains updated, reviewed versions of some selected papers on “Sea-Level Changes and their Effects” presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference (OAP 95), held in Adelaide, South Australia, 23-27 October 1995. In addition several reviewed articles on important topics not covered by the papers presented at OAP 95 were invited. The articles in this volume will find an audience among coastal developers, marine biologists and environmentalists. They cover a range of topics including the efforts of long-term sea-level rise on coastal flows and its impact on mangrove communities, the determination of long-term sea-level change relative to the vertical motion of the land, to the numerical modelling of short term sea-level changes due to tides, tsunamis and the weather.
Economic Development Technical Information Paper
Author: South Pacific CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description