[Anthropgrad] RESEARCH SEMINAR - Anette Reenberg - 12.30-1.30pm Tuesday 11 March

[RMAP Seminars]

FIFTY YEARS OF CHANGE IN THE COUPLED HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM ON 
BELLONA, SOLOMON ISLANDS

Dr Anette Reenberg (Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, 
University of Copenhagen)

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 12.30-1.30pm
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room) Coombs Building, ANU

Abstract
This seminar reports selected results from a research mission to the
Solomon Island in December 2007. The CLIP-project (Sustainable resource 
use or
imminent collapse? Climate, livelihoods and production in the Southwest
Pacific) was part of the Danish Galathea3 Expedition. It was carried out 
in an
interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, 
the Danish Meteorological Institute, the University
of the South Pacific and the Solomon Islands Meteorological Service Centre.

The seminar will concentrate on livelihood strategies on Bellona Island. 
Coupled human-environmental timelines are used to
explore the temporal co-evolution of driving forces and adaptive strategies
from the 1960s to 2006. Climatic events and agro-environmental 
conditions are
assessed in conjunction with issues such as population dynamics, 
agricultural strategies,
non-agricultural activities, transport and infrastructure, migration,
education, and political conditions. Satellite imagery and aerial photos 
are
used to assess changes in agricultural land use intensity with the 
increase in
de facto population. Fifty years’ development is best described as a
combination of continuity and change. Resource management practices are 
only
marginally impacted by different stress factors, but the importance of
agriculture has been decreasing in relative terms. Culturally determined 
bonds
have become a main ‘mechanism’ to cope with environmental or socio-economic
stress and the Bellonese have become less vulnerable to external shocks.

Bio
Anette Reenberg is Professor in Landscape and Agricultural Geography at 
the University of Copenhagen.
Most recently she has been appointed as chair of the
scientific steering committee of The Global Land Project, a joint research
agenda under IHDP (International Human Dimension Programme) and IGBP
(International Geosphere Biosphere Programme), and is leader of the GLP
international project office (www.globallandproject.org).

-- 
Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University

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