The authors examine the prevailing arguments on agroforestry initiatives in the Pacific Islands. Their basic premise is that some of the effort now devoted to preserving or protecting natural forests - a goal that Pacific Islanders, and their governments, do not always share with foreign...

The author evaluates the potential benefits of integrated conservation and development programmes for rural communities in Papua New Guinea. He focuses on a project sponsored by Conservation International and the Foundation for the peoples of the South Pacific in the Lakekamu River Basin in this...

After discussing the social and cultural setting for forest regimes up to the present, the authors examine the current forest management in detail. They outline some options and opportunities that may be considered in the move toward the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. (DÜI-Sen)