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CONTENTS

Part One: The Local Politics of Large-Scale Logging Projects
2. Get What You Can While You Can: The Landowner-Government Relationship in West New Britain (Gary Simpson)..................................................... 17
3. Private Dealings: A Social History of the Hawain Local Forest Area, East Sepik Province (John M. Leedom).................................................................. 35
4. The Invisible Developer: The Landownersm Dilemma in the Buhem-Mongi TRP Area (Thomas Nen)....................................................................... 67
5. The Makapa Timber Rights Purchase: A Study in Project Failure in the Post-Barnett Era (Michael Wood)..................................................................... 84
6. Where Do the Raw Logs Go? Contractors, Traders, and Landowners in Lak
(Fadzilah Majid Cooke)............................................................ 109
7. Living with Logging and Broken Promises: Madang Timbers in the Madang North Coast TRP (Bill F. Sagir)................................................................. 130
8. Process and Outcome in the Gogol: Issues in Forest Planning and Management
(Simon Montagu)................................................................... 147
9. Cutting the Wood of Woodlark: Retrospects and Prospects for Logging on Muyuw, Milne Bay Province (Frederick H. Damon)............................................ 180

Part Two: National and Regional Perspectives on the Forest Industry
10. A Statistical Profile of Papua New Guineams Log Export Industry
(Colin Filer)........................................................................ 207
11. The State Versus Custom: Regulating Papua New Guineams Timber Industry
(Rod Taylor)....................................................................... 249
12. Small-Scale Community-Based Forestry: Issues in the Conservation of Papua New Guineams Biodiversity
(Ron Martin)....................................................................... 269
13. The Politics of Large-Scale Timber Consumption in Japan
(Anja Light)........................................................................ 293
14. The Economics of Sustainable Development in Papua New Guinea
(John Millett)...................................................................... 311

Part Three: Conservation and Sustainable Development in Practice
15. Biophysical Parameters for Sustainable Utilisation of Papua New Guineams Forests
(Bas Louman)..................................................................... 333
16. Governance, Law, and Sovereignty: Enforcing Environmental Objectives in Papua New Guinea (Kathy Whimp).......................................................... 353
17. Pro Bono Publico?: Conservation and Appropriate Resource Management Strategies in Papua New Guinea (Hartmut Holzknecht).................................... 368
18. Processes for Effecting Community Participation in the Establishment of Protected Areas: A Case Study of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area
(Arlyne Johnson)................................................................. 391
19. Biodiversity on a Tightrope: Incentives for Rainforest Conservation in Papua New Guinea (Nikhil Sekhran).................................................................. 429
20. Nature Conservation in Irian Jaya: A Counterpoint to Papua New Guinea?
(John M. Leedom)................................................................ 450

References.......................................................................... 491