CSIRO and land research in Papua New Guinea 1950–2000: part 2: post-Independence

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Gael Keig ◽  
Robin L. Hide ◽  
Susan M. Cuddy ◽  
Heinz Buettikofer ◽  
Jennifer A. Bellamy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Level ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Computer Based

Following Papua New Guinea (PNG) Independence in 1975, the new administration approached Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) directly concerning the need to address issues related to food security and village-based agriculture. A subsequent series of collaborative research projects between CSIRO and PNG government departments built upon the existing survey information to provide PNG with one of the earliest national-level, computer-based resource information systems, with widespread applications, particularly in agriculture, forestry, environmental management and planning. Part 1 of this historical review discussed the evolution, conduct and outcomes of the CSIRO integrated surveys over the period 1950–75, while Part 2 describes the subsequent research projects that arose from the surveys and concluded in 2000. In addition, the legacy of CSIRO involvement in land research in PNG is examined in relation to advances made both within individual scientific disciplines and in other relevant technological fields, and to operational challenges and structural change within the organisation.

scholarly journals Governance at the Local Level in Melanesia – Absent the State

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hegarty
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Informal Governance ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Decentralised Systems ◽  
Tier System

At independence the three Melanesian states of the Pacific Islands region – Papua New Guinea (1975), Solomon Islands (1978) and Vanuatu (1980) – opted for decentralised systems of government. In all cases a three-tier system of national, provincial and local government was introduced, although the specific arrangements and allocation of powers differed substantially. Since that time there has been a good deal of analysis about the policy processes of decentralisation itself and about the effectiveness (or otherwise) of national-level governance in these countries; but until recently little has been written about the lower levels.This short article surveys some of the recent research and commentary on local-level governance relating particularly to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Solomon Islands. It focuses on both the poor condition of formal local-level government as well as on the rise of informal governance-type activity at the local level which might be described as ‘civil society in formation’.

How Political Commitments Influence Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Kirsch
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Political Commitments

This chapter is based on long-term research with people affected by the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea, including involvement in a lawsuit seeking to halt its destructive environmental impact. It considers examples of ethnographic refusal, when anthropologists do not write about events that might harm their informants. It also examines relationships between engaged anthropologists and colleagues, lawyers and law, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and communities. This chapter and the next address these questions in the context of long-term research projects, while the other examples in the book consider these issues in relation to short-term, problem-focused research, which have their own challenges and opportunities.

scholarly journals Quantifying Threats to Biodiversity and Prioritizing Responses: An Example from Papua New Guinea

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Thomas H. White ◽  
Patricia Bickley ◽  
Cory Brown ◽  
Dave E. Busch ◽  
Guy Dutson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
National Level ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Multivariate Cluster ◽  
Threat Levels ◽  
Specific Conservation ◽  
Do So

Accurately identifying threats to global biodiversity is the first step towards effectively countering or ameliorating them. However, such threats are usually only qualitatively categorized, without any comparative quantitative assessment of threat levels either within or across ecosystems. As part of recent efforts in Papua New Guinea to develop a long-term strategic plan for reducing threats to biodiversity at the national level, we developed a novel and quantitative method for not only assessing relative effects of specific biodiversity threats across multiple ecosystems, but also identifying and prioritizing conservation actions best suited for countering identified threats. To do so, we used an abbreviated quantitative SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and multivariate cluster analysis to identify the most significant threats to biodiversity in Papua New Guinea. Of 27 specific threats identified, there were nine major threats (each >5% of total) which accounted for approximately 72% of the total quantified biodiversity threat in Papua New Guinea. We then used the information to identify underlying crosscutting threat drivers and specific conservation actions that would have the greatest probability of reducing biodiversity threats across multiple ecosystem realms. We categorized recommended actions within three strategic categories; with actions within each category targeting two different spatial scales. Our integrated quantitative approach to identifying and addressing biodiversity threats is intuitive, comprehensive, repeatable and computationally simple. Analyses of this nature can be invaluable for avoiding not only wasted resources, but also ineffective measures for conserving biodiversity.

scholarly journals The History of *=a

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-568
Author(s):  
Don Daniels ◽  
Joseph Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Contact Areas ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This paper discusses the historical borrowing of an enclitic across unrelated Papuan languages spoken along the lower Sogeram River in the Middle Ramu region of present-day Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The enclitic *=a, which attached to the right edge of a prosodic unit, was borrowed from the Ramu family into the ancestor of three modern Sogeram languages. Both morphological and prosodic substance were borrowed, as was the dual functionality of the enclitic – as a pragmatic marker in independent utterances and a linking device on dependent domains. We discuss the clitic’s formal and functional properties as evidence for its contact-induced origin and subsequent historical development in western Sogeram, as well as the implications of these developments for our understanding of morphological and pragmatic borrowing. The complexities of this borrowing event highlight the potential for theories of language contact to benefit from collaborative research on previously unstudied contact areas.

The coral bugs, genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). I. History, classification, and taxonomy of species except the H. malaya-group

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Møller Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
Caroline Islands

AbstractMarine bugs of the genus Halovelia Bergroth inhabit intertidal coral reefs and rocky coasts along the continents and larger islands bordering the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and western Pacific Ocean as well as on island groups and atolls in these areas. A historical review of the study of the genus is presented and different views upon its classification discussed. The genus Halovelia is redescribed together with its type species, H. maritima Bergroth, and four other previously known species. Fifteen new species are described: H. carolinensis sp.n. (Caroline Islands), H. halophila sp.n. (Sumbawa, Sabah), H. corallia sp.n. (Papua New Guinea, Australia: Queensland), H. esakii sp.n. (Solomon Islands, Irian New Guinea, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Palau Islands, Philippines), H. polhemi sp.n. (Australia: Northern Territory), H. solomon sp.n. (Solomon Islands), H. novoguinensis sp.n. (Papua New Guinea), H. fosteri sp.n. (Fiji Islands), H. tongaensis sp.n. (Tonga Islands), H. heron sp.n. (Australia: S. Queensland), H. fijiensis sp.n. (Fiji Islands), H. inflexa sp.n. (Sudan, Red Sea), H. annemariae sp.n. (Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea), H. lannae sp.n. (Java, Singapore, West Malaysia, Sabah, Philippines), and H. wallacei sp.n. (Sulawesi, Sumbawa). Two names are synonymized: H. marianarum Usinger syn.n. (= H. bergrothi Esaki) and H. danae Herring syn.n. (= H. bergrothi Esaki). The following species are removed from the genus Halovelia: H. papuensis Esaki, H. loyaltiensis China, and H. (Colpovelia) angulana Polhemus. A key to the species is included. The taxonomy of the H. malaya-group will be presented in Part II of this work together with the cladistics, ecology, biology, and biogeography of the genus.

scholarly journals Forgetting PNG? Australian media coverage of Papua New Guinea

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-193
Author(s):  
Lee Duffield
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Port Moresby

Coverage of Papua New Guinea in Australian media has been a source of resentment and dissatisfaction since the former Territory’s independence in 1975. A survey of media content in Australia has been made, to retrace collaborative research during 2007-11 that showed overall low volumes of coverage much of it negative in cast. The Australian ABC provided some exception, maintaining a Port Moresby correspondent. The present study finds the volume of coverage has increased slightly with indications of more positive approaches in reporting on the country. It contrasts disinterest in PNG among established press and commercial television, with the ongoing contribution of ABC, and the ‘new media’ Guardian Australia making a targeted and well-serviced entry into the field.

Parasites of animals in Papua New Guinea recorded at the National Veterinary Laboratory: a catalogue, historical review and zoogeographical affiliations

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3143 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
IFOR L. OWEN
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Sarcoptes Scabiei ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Avian Host ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Tropilaelaps Mercedesae ◽  
Host Parasite ◽  
Veterinary Laboratory

The catalogue includes more than 700 parasites of domestic and wild animals recorded at the National Veterinary Laboratory, Papua New Guinea, since data began to be gathered at the end of World War 2. It incorporates some information already published and data on parasites, particularly of indigenous fauna, not recorded previously in the country. Wildlife host species include wild pig, deer, bats, murine rodents, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. The range of parasites in domestic and many wild animals shows great affinity with that found in Australia. Some notable exceptions amongst domestic animal parasites are the endoparasites Trichinella papuae, Capillaria papuensis and Mammomonogamus laryngeus and the economically significant ectoparasites Chrysomya bezziana, Tropilaelaps mercedesae and Varroa jacobsoni that are not recorded in Australia. Unusual host-parasite associations include the larvae of the insects Chrysomya spp. and Lucilia sp., parasites of warm-blooded animals, infesting, respectively, cold-blooded crocodiles and cane toads, and the mammalian mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, on an avian host, cassowaries. No host switching of helminths was seen between domestic and wild animals, or between populations of deer, wild pigs and wallabies when grazing together. The economic importance of certain parasites for domestic animals, the potential threats from introduced or newly-discovered parasites, and the relationship between some parasites and their wildlife hosts, are discussed. Information is presented in two tables: a parasite–host list that includes the location of a parasite in or on a host as well as a list of references of relevance to the country, and a host–parasite list that contains the distribution of the parasites according to province or locality.

Public Health in Papua New Guinea

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Denoon ◽  
Kathleen Dugan ◽  
Leslie Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea
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