Eyewitness Accounts of the Impact of the 1998 Aitape Tsunami, and of Other Tsunamis in Living Memory, in the Region from Jayapura, Indonesia, to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea

2007 ◽  
pp. 433-452
Author(s):  
Gorden N. Joku ◽  
Jocelyn M. Davies ◽  
Hugh L. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Impact of a Filariasis Control Program on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. e1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriol Mitjà ◽  
Raymond Paru ◽  
Russell Hays ◽  
Lysaght Griffin ◽  
Nedley Laban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Control Program ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals ‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Ceridwen Spark
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Impact

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.

scholarly journals 'Desecration' in a Place of Refuge

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Glazebrook
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Refugee Population ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
International Border ◽  
The Impact

In this paper I explore two related questions: how does a particular site come to be perceived as sacred, and what is the impact of the destruction of something sacred when it occurs in a place of ‘refuge’? This study is situated on the island of New Guinea, in the experiences of West Papuan people from the Indonesian Province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), living as refugees across the international border in Papua New Guinea. The inquiry is grounded in two instances involving a refugee population in a place of refuge. The first instance involves the burning of a church built by a refugee congregation, and the second involves the large-scale occupation by a refugee population of another people’s land. A doubling effect is intended here. Forced migration can simultaneously render refugees vulnerable to the violence of others, and in the process of resettlement, refugees may have no real choice but to engage in actions that violate the land of others.

scholarly journals Producers' Well-Being and Natural Resource Extraction: The Eaglewood Trade in Papua New Guinea

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gerber ◽  
Anik Bhaduri
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Existence Value ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Stock Depletion ◽  
The Impact

We illustrate how natural resource dependent and isolated communities manage their forest stock. Our model is based on field observations of the Eaglewood trade in Papua New Guinea. Using a dynamic model of household utility maximization and simulations, we analyze the impact of variations in the (monopsonistic) resource price on the households’ consumption choices and their allocation of effort across depletive and nondepletive activities. The stock of forest is embedded directly in the households’ utility function (existence value) and in their (nonseparable) production and consumption functions. We show that poverty (in production assets) does not inevitably lead to stock depletion.

Disturbance Impacts of Logging on Ground Herbaceous Plant Species Richness, Diversity, and Composition of Lowland Rainforest of Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penniel Lamei ◽  
Fabio Attorre ◽  
Riccardo Testolin ◽  
Michele De Sanctis ◽  
Ruth Turia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Forest Type ◽  
Elevation Gradient ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Herbaceous Plant ◽  
Herbaceous Layer ◽  
Lowland Forest ◽  
P Type ◽  
The Impact

The impact of logging activities on species richness, diversity, and composition of the ground herbaceous layer of the lowland forest of Papua New Guinea was analyzed. Data from the first multipurpose National Forest Inventory were collected in 52 plots from logged and unlogged low altitude forest on plains and fans (P) and forest on uplands (H) in Madang, West New Britain and Central Provinces. The abundance of 10,609 ground herbaceous plants classified in 174 species from 103 genera and 35 families. Based on importance values, Arecaceae was the dominating family in both logged and unlogged P forest type, while Urticaceae and Arecaceae were dominating respectively in logged and unlogged H forest type. At species level, Donax canniformis and Elatostema beccarii are dominating the P type, and Elatostema novoguineensis and Selaginella durvillei the H type. Analysis of species richness, diversity, and composition showed significant differences between the two types with the H type being richer and more diverse than P type. No differences emerged between logged and unlogged of both types, indicating that the current intensity of disturbance does not seem to have a significant impact on the ground herbaceous layer. Since herbaceous species are an important component of the tropical forest diversity, further inventories must be conducted along a wider elevation gradient to make these results more robust and better observe species turn over patterns and beta diversity.

The Impact of Local and Oceanic Climate Variability on the Incidence of Childhood Pneumonia in Papua New Guinea

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 4350
Author(s):  
Jinseob Kim ◽  
Hae-Kwan Cheong ◽  
Ho Kim ◽  
Yasushi Honda ◽  
Mina Ha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Childhood Pneumonia ◽  
Oceanic Climate ◽  
The Impact
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