Keywords:
Ecology.
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Economic history.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (705 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031202629
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=7241926
DDC:
929.374
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 Papua New Guinea (PNG)…The New Nation and a Global Experimental Sustainability Success of a Renewed Tribal Governance: Insights from a Widely Misunderstood Modern Control Study -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 From Deep Time Until Just Very 'Recently': Over 47,000 Years Passed by and not Much Happened to PNG, or to the Earth! -- 1.3 The Zigzagging Path of 'Modern' Development Toward Progress, Chaos or Death? -- 1.4 PNG as an Experimental Case of a Remote Ancient Society and Nation Thrown into the International Community and its So-called Free Trade Market Scheme: How Does the Control Site Fare? -- 1.5 PNG as a Proclaimed Failed State, and Thus, a Failed Western Experiment -- 1.6 PNG as the Happy and Willing Resource Provider and Delivery Platform to the Outside World: Just another Failed Idea, Market and Mindset -- 1.7 What 'Science-Based' Policy Controls (Before-After-Control-Impact -- BACI) Tell Us About the Western World: Clear Evidence for the PNG Case -- 1.8 PNG Forward, Back to the (Rasta) Roots -- References -- 2 The Land of Papua New Guinea: A Quick Conservation Reader for What CEOs and Directors Ought to Know -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 (Foreign) Profits and the PNG Set up Mix Poorly -- 2.3 What Does the PNG Set up Mean for Modern Business? A Crash Course on PNG Etiquette Will 'Crash' -- 2.4 Beyond Just a PNG Factsheet, Some Quick Lessons from PNG's Development -- References -- 3 The Oceans Surrounding Papua New Guinea: A Habitat View for Sustainable Fisheries and an Acknowledged Lack of Carrying Capacity Knowledge of the Ocean Ecosystem -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Northern Ocean Side of PNG -- 3.3 The Eastern Ocean Side of PNG Mainland -- 3.4 The Eastern Ocean Side of PNG: Islands -- 3.5 The Southern Ocean Side of PNG -- 3.6 The South Western Ocean Side of PNG.
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3.7 Overall Oceanography -- 3.8 A Very Special and Endemic Marine Set Up in PNG, Including Benthos -- 3.9 Island Economics, Whales, Fisheries, Estuaries and Sustainable Oceans with MPAs? -- References -- 4 Deep Times of Papua New Guinea with Over 47,000* Years Nothing 'Relevant' Happening: Why It Matters for the World's Future as a Leading Sustainable Steady-State Economy Role Model and a Sustainability Super-Nation -- References -- 5 Colonial After-Times in Papua New Guinea: Urgency for Repatriation, Biodiversity Compensation and Fair Treatment to Assure a Better Global Future -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The World's Colonial Set up Provides Ongoing Patterns of 'Modernity' for a Tripple Whammy -- 5.3 Any Fairness by the Winners? What Court, What Judge and What Culture of Fairness? What Future Culture? -- 5.4 Enforced Industrial Unfairness Brought by Globalization and Its Neoliberal Market Capitalism Ongoing and into the Future: It Must Be Improved! -- References -- 6 Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea (PNG): Attempting a More Meaningful Conservation Description and Approach of Its Use, Co-evolution, Generic Status and Grim Outlook -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Birds: The Cheapest and Effective Conservation Platform Left Widely Unused -- 6.3 Widely Misunderstood Birds of Paradise (BoP) and Hyped World Records Lead the Way…into a Superficial World Audience Ignoring Conservation Reality? -- 6.4 Trees of PNG: Precious, not Surveyed, not Understood, Mis-labeled, Unpreserved but Dramatically Cut-Down all with the Global Community Watching and Consuming -- 6.5 Plant Overview: Power to the Flowers -- 6.6 Insects: An Overview and Description is Next to Impossible -- 6.7 Study Insects for What, How Done and for How Long? -- 6.8 Mammals of PNG: What This Species Group Really is About -- 6.9 Amphibians and Reptiles -- 6.10 Marine Biodiversity.
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6.11 Endemism and Its Centers -- 6.12 The Unknown, the Ecology and Toward a Better Nature-Environmental Relationship in 'The West' and Worldwide -- 6.13 Biodiversity Conservation Anyone, Done for Purely Commercial Reasons Adding to Mining, Oil and Gas Explorations and Foreign Wealth and Power? -- References -- 7 Papua New Guinea as a Global Sustainability Leader: Confronting Per Capita Metrics with GIS Layers and Social Engineering -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Papua New Guinea Compared with the Colonial Outside World -- 7.3 Reality View on PNG Metrics, Crime and Socioeconomics and Human Footprint -- 7.4 Education What for and for Whom? -- 7.5 Papua New Guinea as the Global Sustainability Leader and Role Model -- References -- 8 Fundamental Humanitarian Sustainability Issues in Papua New Guinea: SDGs and Global Top-Downs to Fail Us Further on Biodiversity and Wilderness Conservation with an Indigenous Vision -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Human Metrics in PNG: A Quick Selection of Artefacts? -- 8.3 Complex Lives, Complex Habitats, Urbanization and Being Embedded in the Ring of Terror from Abroad -- References -- 9 In Bed with a Big Bad Neighbor for Life: The Middle Power of Australia as a Domestic, Cultural, Political, Material and Environmental Sustainability Problem for Papua New Guinea and Beyond? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Australia as a Middle Power -- 9.3 The Middle Power of Australia Leashes Out in Mean Terms -- 9.4 Australia and Its wider Environmental Problem -- 9.5 A Solution to the Australian Problem? -- References -- 10 Betel Nut, Coconuts/Copra, Chocolate, Strawberries, Coffee, Apples, Spam and Fish in Papua New Guinea: From Ancient Farming, Highly Bred Species and Sustainability Concepts over Diseases and DNA into Global Market Repercussions and Wholesale (Environmental) Bankruptcy -- 10.1 Introduction.
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10.2 A Selected List of PNG Farming Commodities -- 10.3 International Trading and Instability -- References -- 11 Papua New Guinea: Australia's Failed Dream, Some Failed States and the Widely Acknowledged Outer Fascism -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Australia's Environmental Problem Export -- 11.3 How Does that Link Directly to Papua New Guinea? -- References -- 12 Destruction by Mining and Drilling on a Global Scale, with Papua New Guinea Fully Embedded: A Meta-analysis Contribution About the Resource Curse, Global Bankruptcy, Destruction, Terror and Death Favors Mother Earth Concepts -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Papua New Guinea: "Just Mine It"? -- 12.3 The Generic Pattern of Mining: Hype, Transitional Ownership and Liability Questions, Money Elsewhere and the Locals Pay the Bills While the Environment and Social Fabric Gets Knowingly Destroyed, Long-Term -- 12.4 Obtaining the Public/Social License and Buy-In Widely Failed in PNG -- 12.5 A Reality Perspective Where PNG Stands After a Century of Mining: Mother Earth to the Rescue -- 12.6 Modern Life and Sustainability Do not Need Intense Mining: Where to Go Now with Mining and the Aftermath? -- References -- 13 Seafloor Mining Around Papua New Guinea: Just Another 'Big Deal' Gone Bust -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Mine and Drill PNG's Seafloor for Real? -- 13.3 How Would Seafloor Mining Work, and Around PNG? -- 13.4 A 'License to Play and to Kill' Granted by a 'modern' PNG Government, UN International Seabed Authority and International Corporations (While Citizens are Excluded and a 47,000 Old Sustainable Culture Gets Overtaken) -- 13.5 PNG's Seafloor Set up -- 13.6 The 'Ocean Pump' and PNG's Sea Mammals, Shark Calling and Marine Ecology -- 13.7 PNG as a Special Case for Seafloor Mining and Seeing Its Negative Impacts -- References.
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14 "Come and Dive" in Papua New Guinea: Surfing, Reefs, Paper Park MPAs and Marine Conservation Issues in PNG Beyond Sharks, Whales, Crocodiles, Seagrass and 'Developing a Resource' -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 What Do the 'Sea Around Us' Data Tell Us? A Nation-State Overfishes -- 14.3 Seagrass Anyone? -- 14.4 Come and See the Last Mangroves -- 14.5 Estuaries to Watch for -- 14.6 "Surf the Waves", as a New Participator in the Neoliberal Utilization Scheme of the PNG Oceans -- 14.7 PNG as a Cheap Labor Operation for Diving and Surf Resorts and Others Work Places -- 14.8 Sustainable PNG as the Treasure Trove -- 14.9 Harvest a Crocodile, Eat a Dugong, Some River Dolphins and Others -- 14.10 And Where Are the Sharks Now? -- 14.11 "Come and Dive" to See the Deckchairs of the Titanic, in a Designated MPA and Outside… -- References -- 15 Timber and Forestry in Papua New Guinea: Still no Publicly Available Forest Inventory Data or Growth-and-Yield Tables Despite Google Earth, Microsoft Cloud, NGOs, International Development Aid, REDD, Satellites and Drones Applied Last Decade for a Science-Based Forestry -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Prime Forests of PNG: Something Very Different -- 15.3 What's Simply Wrong with PNG Forestry: An Easy List -- 15.4 Why then Does PNG Still not Have a Sustainable Forestry Practice, Yet? -- 15.5 Going Indigenous-Decolonized-For a Meaningful Forest Sustainability in Papua New Guinea -- References -- 16 Papua New Guinea as a Paradise (of Weaponized Diseases): AIDS/HIV, African Swine Fever, Malaria, Avian Influenza, Weaponized Viruses and Wider Public Health? -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 PNG as a Tropical Disease Player on the World Stage -- 16.3 Serious Health Risks in PNG and Their Handling -- 16.4 Some Major Disease Characteristics in PNG -- 16.5 PNG as the Evolving and Endless Global Disease Reservoir?.
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16.6 PNG as a Global Reservoir for Weaponized Diseases and a Spreader?.
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