Published pdf report from IUCN for PNG rare and endangered species
The 2014 State of the Forests report documents substantial changes in PNG’s forests over the period 2002-2014.
The main driver of this change was the industrial logging industry both through the degradation of primary
rainforest to secondary logged forest, and the conversion of forest to other non-forest land cover types such as cleared land and scrub.
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.
An introduction to the natural history, societies, conservation and sustainable development of the New Guinea region prepared by CSIRO Australia for the Moore Foundation, 2003
This pictorial review will show:
•how Earth history has given these islands immense biological and mineral riches;
•why the plants and animals are of outstanding value for science and natural history;
•the enormous diversity of human cultures developed over the last30,000 years;
•the footprints of human society and infrastructure that lie over the entire landscape;
The objectives of this Act are–
(a) to protect the environment and conserve biological diversity; and
(b) to ensure that proper weight is given to both the long-term and short-term
social, economic, environmental and equity considerations in deciding all
matters relating to access to, use and management of the country’s unique
biological resources; and
(c) to protect and sustain the potential of biological and physical resources
against threats posed by bio-piracy and other related illegal activities to
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.
13 paged research paper on rural development in PNG and how it relates to poverty in the country. It argues that poverty in Papua New Guinea is significantly located in the most isolated and environmentally disadvantaged parts of rural PNG, where development has not occurred to any extent and where a number of severe constraints make it unlikely to occur. Hence rural development, as that term is normally understood, will not significantly alleviate poverty 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.
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.
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.