Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions; 1 Conceptualising the Rainforest; 2 Conceptualising Melanesian Agroforestry; 3 Life on the Lands of Marovo; 4 Above the Seashore: Land Use in Marovo; 5 The Wet and the Dry: Marovo Agroforestry at European Contact; 6 The Great Transformations, 1880-1910; 7 Colonialism, Coconut Overlay and the "Age of Development"; 8 Towards the Twenty-first Century: Adapting the Indigenous System; 9 The Forest as Commodity: Selling Logs to Asia
10 After Logging: Reforestation -- or What?11 Small is Beautiful? Steps Towards Sustainable Forestry; 12 Rumours of Utopia: Conservation and Eco-tourism; 13 Epilogue: Rainforest Narratives; Notes to Chapters; Glossary of Marovo Words; Bibliography; Index