Globalization and Papua New Guinea: Ancient Wilderness, Paradise, Introduced Terror and Hell

ISBN-13: 9783031202612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 655 str.

Falk Huettmann; Moriz Steiner

Opis

This book aims to present a reality view for Papua New Guinea based on many years of first-hand field work and research accounts. It further assesses sustainability in the light of 47,000 years of a self-sustained type of civilization without bad global impacts. This book contrasts the modern sustainable development failures from the colonial times onwards, as promoted by the ‘western world’, namely Australia, the UK, EU and the U.S as well as Japan and now, China, in times of globalization, Trump’ism and royal governance (Papua New Guinea is still part of the British Dominion and of the Antarctic Treaty etc). This assessment and book is the first of its kind also employing modern data analysis, Landscape Ecology principles (patterns and processes, telecoupling) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Open Access data focusing on ecological economics, marxism, socialism and contrasting it with current capitalism and neoliberalism that Papua New Guinea is fully exposed to. Throughout the 31 book chapters various aspects are covered how a further insistence on the ‘new’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and so-called Development Aid will result in unwanted side effects and perverse outcomes for Papua New Guinea and for the world in times of wider ‘global change’ and unprecedented man-made crisis.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Papua New Guinea (PNG)…the new nation and a global experiment
Chapter 2: The Land of Papua New Guinea
Chapter 3: The Oceans surrounding Papua New Guinea
Chapter 4: Deep Times of Papua New Guinea
Chapter 5: Colonial Times in Papua New Guinea
Chapter 6: Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea (PNG): Description, Use, Status and Outlook
Chapter 7: Papua New Guinea as a global sustainability leader
Chapter 8: Humanitarian issues in Papua New Guinea
Chapter 9: Australia as a Domestic, Cultural, Political and Material Problem
Chapter 10: Coffee, chocolate, coconuts/copra, betel nut, strawberries and fish in Papua New Guinea
Chapter 11: Papua New Guinea: Australia’s  failed dream, some failed states and outer fascism
Chapter 12: Mining destruction on a global scale, with Papua New Guinea within
Chapter 13: Seafloor mining around Papua New Guinea
Chapter 14: “Come and Dive” in Papua New Guinea: Surfing, Reefs, MPAs and marine issues in PNG
Chapter 15: Timber and Forestry in Papua New Guinea: Still no publically available forest inventory or growth & yield tables despite Google, Microsoft, NGOs, satellites and drones
Chapter 16: Papua New Guinea as a paradise of diseases: AIDS/HIV, African Swine Fever, Malaria, Avian Influenza and Public Health
Chapter 17: Role of Papua New Guinea in Climate Change: A hostile relationship
Chapter 18: Australian Terror and Tyranny in Papua New Guinea and surrounding areas
Chapter 19: Papua New Guinea and Education: A primer and the bad role of Christianity, again.
Chapter 20: Case study: YUS Landscape
Chapter 21: Case Study: An honest look at Krater Mountain WCS
Chapter 22: Case study: Bougainville terror, civil war and independence, and why Papua New Guinea could fall apart soon
Chapter 23: Case study: Who runs the shots in Port Moresby? Exposure and review of cliques in a global crime hotspot
Chapter 24: RAMU sugar from Fiji
Chapter 25: Role of outside nations in Papua New Guinea: China, U.S. UK, Russia, Australia, NZ
Chapter 26: Papua New Guinea from a modern Anthropology perspective: PNG 1, Western World 0
Chapter 27: 100 open access GIS layers and their analysis and message: Human Footprints of the last 100 years destroyed a 40,000 years old civilization
Chapter 28: Lessons from PNG for the wider global good: Marxist views, reality and globalization failures
Chapter 29:  Where on earth is Papua New Guinea heading ? Forwards to the roots