Author: R. G. Crocombe
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 256
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"This authoritative set of essays on land tenure and development in the Pacific cover Hawai'i, Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Niue, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, Nauru, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Australia. Issues covered include indigenous versus settler rights; rights to marine and aquatic resources; the effects of social change on attitudes to customary tenure; women's rights to land; the influence of absentee land owners on land tenure; customary land and the problem of collateral for agricultural credit; chiefly versus non-chiefly rights; and land for productivity and economic growth."--Back cover.