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.

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Title

Land Issues in the Pacific

Publisher

Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies [and] Institute of Pacific Studies

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0958330018

ISBN 13

9780958330015

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good

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Vanuatu

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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.

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