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Land Use Change and Intensification in Papua New Guinea 1975–1996
Author(s) -
McAlpine J.R.,
Freyne D.F.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
asia pacific viewpoint
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.571
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8373
pISSN - 1360-7456
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8373.00145
Subject(s) - new guinea , geography , socioeconomics , land use , population , distribution (mathematics) , agriculture , land use, land use change and forestry , rural area , rural population , land area , agricultural economics , demography , ecology , archaeology , ethnology , environmental science , economics , history , political science , agricultural science , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law , biology
Land use intensity mapping of Papua New Guinea (circa 1975) has been updated to 1996 and analysed with respect to changes in area, population distribution and preferred environments for land use. Although the rural population has increased approximately 50 per cent over that time, the area of village land use has expanded only 11 per cent. Those environments that were most preferred for village agriculture in 1975 have tended to experience proportionately greater population increase over the period 1975–96 than elsewhere.