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)
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
The use of unstable steeplands in the mountains of Papua New Guinea
Farming system ; Farming;Agriculture ; Land use ; Mass movement ; Mountain ; Papua New Guinea ; Population density ; Slope ; Slope gradient ; Soil erosion ; Valley
Food garden capacity and population growth : a case in Papua New Guinea
Agricultural practice ; Carrying capacity ; Farming system ; Papua New Guinea ; Resource management ; Rural community ; Subsistence agriculture ; Village
Changing patterns of wage labor migration in the Kilenge area of Papua New Guinea
This study of the inhabitants of Ongaia village in the Kilenge area of Papua New Guinea documents the role of labor migration in one area of New Britain. It notes that the potential for migration seems to vary with several factors: opportunities
Distance and participation in the cash economy: coffee producers in the interior of Huon peninsula, Papua New Guinea
sous l'influence de la Mission luthérienne. Mais nombreux hommes temporairement absents. Etude complétée par une note p.419-422: The 1976 Coffee Boom im Papua New Guinea. (AHL).
Circular to elongated depressions forming a regular pattern of microrelief have been investigated on gently sloping, poorly drained grasslands in upland valleys in montane Papua New Guinea. The patterned microrelief is the result of a complex
It's all the mound : fertility management under stationary shifting cultivation in Papua New Guinea Highlands
Agriculture ; Cultural capacity ; Environmental degradation ; Ethnic community ; Mountain ; Papua New Guinea ; Shifting cultivation ; Soil
Paper combines anthropological research with soil science to investigate the long-held assumption, based mainly on research in Africa and Latin America, the shifting cultivation causes environmental degradation. The Wola highlanders of Papua New
Guinea were found to practice a shifting cultivation that improved soil fertility by incorporating compost from short grassy fallow into soil mounds for growing sweet potatoes. - (SLD)
Correlations among charcoal records of fires from the past 16,000 years in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Central and South America
Atmospheric circulation ; Central America ; Charcoal ; Climatic variability ; El Niño ; Fire ; Human impact ; Indonesia ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Palaeo-ecology ; Papua New Guinea ; Quaternary ; South America ; Stratigraphic correlation
In this paper the AA. use a zonal intertropical comparison of long-term cumulative charcoal records from the Indonesian and Papua New Guinea region and Central and South American region to evaluate the role of climate and other factors
Evolutionary geomorphology of Australia and Papua-New Guinea
By means of examples it is demonstrated that much of the geomorphology of Australia dates back to early Cenozoic, Mesozoic and even Palaeozoic times. Papua-New Guinea is built of several fragments that had different histories before they collided
with the Australian plate, and it is meaningless to construct a geomorphic history on the present map of the country. Despite signs of geomorphic youth, such as Pleistocene granite and gneiss domes, even Papua-New Guinea has many relic landforms. Conventional models