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Sustainability of Land Groups in Papua New Guinea
- Source :
- Land; Volume 5; Issue 2; Pages: 14, Land, Vol 5, Iss 2, p 14 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2016.
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Abstract
- This paper consists of a review of existing literature relating to Incorporated Land Groups in Papua New Guinea (PNG), followed by a case study of two urban incorporated land groups (ILGs) in the city of Lae. The paper is an attempt at assessing the sustainability of ILGs in the country. The challenges facing the ILGs have heightened public fears that the land groups may not be sustainable. Based on the argument in previous studies that the ILGs are not sustainable, the paper used primary data from two separate questionnaire surveys of randomly selected ILG landowners (including legal settlers) and ILG stakeholders to investigate the problem. The combined sample size of 129 respondents (32.7%) was representative of the total ILG population, while a total of 25 indicators were used to test the respondents’ perceptions regarding ILG sustainability. Findings reveal that only one of the indicators received the positive support of the stakeholders, while no indicator was supported by the landowners. This suggests that the ILGs in PNG are not sustainable legal entities. This dilemma is a consequence of the challenges facing the ILGs, including the issues of corruption in the Lands Department, illiteracy among landowners, poor publicity given to ILGs’ functions, and the dysfunctional ILG legal framework.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Corruption
050204 development studies
media_common.quotation_subject
Population
Incorporated Land Groups (ILGs)
lcsh:Agriculture
Papua New Guinea
customary land tenure
Argument
0502 economics and business
Sustainability reporting
Economics
0601 history and archaeology
education
Functional illiteracy
Nature and Landscape Conservation
media_common
Global and Planetary Change
education.field_of_study
sustainability reporting
060101 anthropology
Ecology
business.industry
05 social sciences
Environmental resource management
lcsh:S
06 humanities and the arts
sustainability
indicators
Dilemma
Sustainability
business
Publicity
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2073445X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Land; Volume 5; Issue 2; Pages: 14
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1324cb558147fe5bbef348f46d79558
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/land5020014