We describe three challenges for biodiversity planning, which arise from a study in Papua New Guinea, but apply equally to biodiversity planning in general. These are 1. the best use of available data for providing biodiversity surrogate information, 2. the integration of representativeness and persistence goals into the area prioritisation process, and 3. implications for the implementation of a conservation plan over time.
Papua New Guinea’s Department of Environment and Conservation is currently undertaking a national marine gap analysis to contribute towards their commitment under the Convention on Biological Diversity to establish a “comprehensive, effectively managed and ecologically-representative national system of protected areas.” The gap analysis will identify conservation priorities throughout Papua New Guinea’s marine area to inform protected area planning, environmental impact assessment and other biodiversity conservation interventions.
Published pdf report from IUCN for PNG rare and endangered species
The Environmental Monitor Series is prepared for countries of the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Region and presents a snap-shot of key environmental trends in the countries to enable them to identify environmental aspects of national development that need attention in the years ahead. Environmental Monitor 2002 is the first of in the Monitor series which aim to engage and inform stakeholders of key environmental issues.
The document provides an in-depth analysis of the socio-cultural aspects of ABS; international aspects of ABS; the relevant policy and legal framework associated with ABS in PNG; research and development and ABS; and intellectual property rights aspects of ABS
This paper provides an overview of the ways in which villagers have intensified agricultural systems in Papua New Guinea, focusing on the last 60 years.
This 18 paged document is a series of publications which include the full proceedings of research workshops, organised symposia or supported by ACIAR. Numbers in this series are distributed internationally to selected individuals and scientific institutions.
This 3 paged paper outlines the research focused on maternal deaths and its impacts on PNG children. Research paper was published by Auckland University's Centre of Development Studies as part of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
The report reviews the state of human development in Papua New Guinea in terms of the three pillars of sustainable development –economic, social and environmental – and specifically examines the ways in which the extractive industries have contributed –positively and negatively – to these related but distinct pillars. While there have been some measurable achievements in terms of improvements in human development (increases in life expectancy, per capita income and educational achievement), many of the indicators are less positive.
5 paged report on the HDI values and rank changes in the 2014 Human Development Report for PNG
In the late 1960s, Harold Brookfield and Doreen Hart were ‘startled’ by the order of magnitude differences in incomes from village cash cropping in different parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This paper traces these differences, back into a pre-colonial past and forward to the present and concludes, as Brookfield did in the 1960s, that severe environmental constraints, rather than market forces, are the primary cause of the pattern of spatial inequalities observable in PNG.
-76 paged background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-2009. This report outlines how poverty which spans generations manifests in PNG and in the health sector especially, why it is getting worse, and why there has been so little success in tackling it in recent years
37 paged research paper from 2006 or before. Highlights the conceptual framework behind the poverty-environment relationship in PNG.
36 paged research paper which seeks to understand how effective access to infrastructure is in reducing poverty in PNG. To meet this goal, we examine poverty in PNG, and seek to show the relationship between poverty and access to infrastructure and then identify the determinants of poverty. In our analysis, we test whether or not access to infrastructure is a significant factor in a household's poverty status. Finally, we want to understand what policies will be effective in overcoming poverty in PNG.
With a renewed interest in large-scale malaria interventions, knowledge about the possible long-term effects of such interventions on the nature of malaria transmission is essential. We document complex changes in malaria epidemiology over the last 40 years associated with changing malaria control activities in Karimui, an isolated area in Papua New Guinea. An initially equal distribution of Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax and P. malariae changed to currently 68% P. falciparum, after passing through a phase of transitory P. vivax dominance, when control started to fail.
15 paged paper as part of the Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 23 published in 2008. A survey of women roadside sellers in Madang Province of Papua New Guinea found that they earn a weighted average income of more than three times the national minimum wage. The relative economic success of these roadside vendors relies to a large extent on access to good-quality customary land and proximity to major roads.
32 paged research paper on the extent to which both donor finance and resource revenues have contributed to higher rates of expenditure in key development sectors of the PNG economy—social services (including health and education) and infrastructure, between 1975 and 2010.
Published 21 paged research paper which evaluates the impact of foreign aid on poverty and human well-being in Papua New Guinea during the 1990s. The methodology of the paper involves comparing the mix of donors’ aid policies aimed at the promotion of economic growth, direct targeting of the poor and the provision of safety nets with the poverty and well-being situation in Papua New Guinea. Growth in Papua New Guinea has not been pro-poor and the high level of inequality reduces the impact of growth on poverty.