New Pathways Across Old Terrain? SSGM Research on Resources, Conflict and Justice. In SSGM Discussion Paper 2017/5

Abstract

Melanesia is characterised by complex interactions among land and natural resource uses, legal and political institutions, and interest groups. These interactions play out at the national level, where institutions have been profoundly shaped by an interplay of 'local' and 'global' orders and by the political and economic systems which affect natural resource exploitation.