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TITLE: |
Land issues in the Pacific / edited by Ron Crocombe and Malama Meleisea. |
PUBLISHED: |
Christchurch, N.Z. : Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury ; Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1994. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
NOTES: |
"This authoritative set of essays on land tenure and development in the Pacific cover Hawaii, Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Nihue, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Australia. Issues covered include indigenous versus settler rights; rights to marine and aquatic resources; the effects of social change on attitudes to customary tenure; women's rights to land; 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 productivity and economic growth" (Back Cover). |
SUBJECT: |
Land use--Oceania. |
SUBJECT: |
Land tenure--Oceania. |
SUBJECT: |
Land tenure. (OCoLC)fst00991362 |
SUBJECT: |
Land use. (OCoLC)fst00991472 |
SUBJECT: |
Oceania. (OCoLC)fst01242982 |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Crocombe, R. G. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Meleisea, Malama. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. |
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