Influence of soil moisture extremes on sweet potato yield in the Papua New Guinea Highlands in Frost and drought in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
An experimental study that suggests that sweet potatoes undergo a major reduction in yield when an extended wet period is followed by a mild drought. Implications for understanding food suply in Highland New Guinea. - (DWG)
Migration from Yumbisa 1972-1975 in Frost and drought in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Crop loss from the 1972 frost forced migration from the high Enga country of Papua New Guinea. Dispersion of gardens over a range of sites was a key factor in their adjustment. (DWG)
The future : questions for policy and research in Frost and drought in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Summary of what has been learned about frost in New Guinea that can be applied to administer policy and comments on the same natural hazard in tropical highlands elsewhere in the world. - (DWG)
The A. divides the literature on rural differentiation in Papua New Guinea into three major approaches : the mainstream social science approach, the dependency approach and the materialist approach. These three categories appear to represent
Research in the mountains of the island of New Guinea
Environment ; Landscape ; Man-environment relationship ; Mountain ; Natural resources ; Papua New Guinea ; Research ; Settlement
is increasingly put into the framework of climatic variability and change. Some of this research has an applied dimension in improving land management system. Compared to Papua New Guinea where Australian scholars have been active, the mountains and people
Estadisticas de la Guinea Ecuatorial Nguemista. Datos para explicar un desastre politico = Statistics of Nguemist Equatorial Guinea. Data to explain a political disaster = Statistiques de la Guinée Equatoriale Nguemiste. Données pour expliquer un
Full circle or spiralling out of control ? State violence and the control of urbanisation in Papua New Guinea
Behaviour ; Criminality ; Ethnic group ; Papua New Guinea ; Social change ; Squatter ; Urban administration ; Urban growth ; Urbanization ; Violence
In Papua New Guinea, colonial control of urban populations has been replicated in contemporary times, often in more draconian form. Eviction of urban settlers have been tied to issues of crime and urban respectability, and lingering perceptions