Resource Extraction
LibCat
Use LibCat, the library's catalog, to search for resources by Keyword, Title, or Author.
The ‘Browse By Subject’ search option (in the menu at the top of the LibCat page) can also be used to find materials about a specific subject and/or geographic location.
Below, find a few examples of subject headings that may relate to your research topic. You can copy and paste into the "Browse by Subject" option available in the menu bar at the top of LibCat. (Replace Place with a broad place description, e.g., Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, etc.)
- Environmental degradation — Place
- Environmental degradation — Pacific Area.
- Economic development — Environmental aspects — Oceania.
- Economic development — Environmental aspects — Pacific Area.
- Environmental economics — Place
- Environmental policy — Oceania.
- Environmental policy — Place
- Indigenous peoples — Ecology.
- Mineral industries — Oceania.
- Mines and mineral resources — Place
- Copper mines and mining — Place
- Phosphate mines and mining — Place
- Phosphate mines and mining--Environmental aspects.
- Phosphate industry — Place
- Ocean mining — Place
- Oceania--Economic conditions.
- Pacific Area — Economic conditions.
- Oceania — Environmental conditions.
- Human ecology — Oceania).
- Human ecology — Pacific Area — History.
Samples of Audiovisual Materials online
- Nauru by Country Watch, Inc.
- Publication Date: 2013
- The Price of Progress by Bob Geldof (Presenter & Narrator), Nicholas Claxton (Producer & Director)
- Publication Date: 2017
- Palau
- Publication Date: 2012
- Where's the Catch? Pacific Fishing in Crisis by Journeyman Pictures
- Publication Date: 2005
- Mining From Exploration to Rehabilitation by Video Education Australasia
- Publication Date: 2011
- Australia, with Simon Reeve by BBC Worldwide Limited
- Publication Date: 2014
- Bougainville in Crisis
- Publication Date: 2011
Samples of Books in Print
Private Oceans by Fiona McCormack
Call Number: 9780745399157
ISBN: 9780745399157
Publication Date: 2017-08-20
Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Katerina Martina Teaiwa
Call Number: DU615 .T45 2015
Publication Date: 2014
"Mining," "Ocean Resources," and "Logging" in The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society by Moshe Rapaport (Editor)
Call Number: GF851 .P33 2013
Publication Date: 2013
"Paradis Lost: Logging and the Environmental and Social Destruction of the Solomon Islands" in Oceania: Neocolonialism, Nukes & Bones by Andre Vltchek; Noam Chomsky; Steven Ratuva
Call Number: GE160.O3 V58 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining and Globalisation by Geoff Evans (Editor); James Goodman (Editor); Nina Lansbury (Editor)
Call Number: Coming soon!
Publication Date: 2002
Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature by Carl N. McDaniel; and John M. Gowdy
Call Number: HC682.25.Z9 M33 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Nauru 1990: An Environmental Challenge for Australia and the Pacific by Helen Bogdan and Associates
Call Number: DU715.8 .N39 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Bougainville: The Mine and the People by Paul Quodling
Call Number: DU850 .Q86 1991
Publication Date: 1991
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea by Pamela Stewart; Andrew Strathern
Call Number: DU740.42 .S7683 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues by Bruce E. Johansen
Call Number: GF50 .J65 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Browse our eBook Collections
Mookini Library provides access to many ebooks from any device with Internet. Many of the ebooks can be found in LibCat or by using the ebook links below.
Access for students, faculty and staff:
Samples of eBooks
State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining by Kristian Lasslett)
Publication Date: 2014
The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia by Nicholas A. Bainton
Publication Date: 2010
The Pacific Rim: Investment, Development, and Trade by Peter N. Nemetz
Call Number: HF4030.7 .P33 1987
Publication Date: 1990
Available online and in print.
Sand Mining in Hawaii: Research, Restrictions, and Choices for the Future by Steven J. Dollar
Call Number: GC1 .H3868 no.79-01
Publication Date: 1979
Available in print and online
Engaging with Capitalism by Fiona McCormack (Editor); Kate Barclay (Editor); Donald C. Wood (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2013