Hartmut A. Holzknecht, BA (Hons) (UQ), MA (UQ), PhD (ANU)
Visiting Fellow, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program

Email: hartmut[at]coombs.anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I am currently a Visiting Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program and have been involved in social science research and development activities in the South Pacific (mainly Papua New Guinea) for nearly 30 years. This has been in academic and applied research, academic-level teaching, in private enterprise and the provincial public service in Papua New Guinea and in a wide range of consulting activities. The latter have included shorter and longer-term involvement in work for the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, AusAID, the European Community, the Government of Papua New Guinea, private enterprise, non-governmental organizations, Australian and Papua New Guinea universities, and Papua New Guinea community groups. This range of activities has taken place in a number of provinces in Papua New Guinea, and, more recently, also in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga. Besides maintaining ongoing links and involvements in a number of those countries, I am presently a member (representing Oceania) on the IUCN Inter-Commission Task Force on Local Communities and Protected Areas as well as on the editorial committee of the publication series Our Common Future (published by RICS Foundation, United Kingdom).

Research Interests

My present main research interest is in community-level management of natural and human resources, associated systems and institutions. This covers land, forestry, agriculture, inshore fisheries and associated community involvements and developments. I am currently preparing a research project 'Land Issues in Melanesia: Foundations of Governance and Security in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu? to begin work in the South Pacific region in 2003.

Key Publications

• 2002 Afterword/Las Tok: Why? When? Where? How? Who/By whom? In N. Sullivan ed. Culture and Progress: The Melanesian Philosophy of Land and Development in Papua New Guinea. Papers from the Divine Word June 2001 Land Symposium. Madang: Divine Word University.
• 1999 Customary Rights and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea. In T. van Meijl and F. von Benda-Beckmann, eds., Property Rights and Economic Development: Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania. London: Kegan Paul International.
• 1997 Pro Bono Publico? Conservation and Appropriate Resource Management Strategies in Papua New Guinea. In C. Filer, ed., The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. Boroko: PNG National Research institute and London: Institute for Environment and Development.
• 1997 Problems of articulation and representation in resource development: The case of forestry in Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum, 7(4): 549-573.
• 1995 Papua New Guinea Land Tenure, Land Use and Biodiversity Conservation. In N. Sekhran and S. Miller, eds., Papua New Guinea Country Study on Biological Diversity. Report to UNEP. Waigani: Dept. of Environment and Conservation; Nairobi: ACRE.
• 1995 Working Papers Produced as Part of the FMPP Landowner Involvement Component 1993 to 1995. Forest Management and Planning Project (FMPP). Hohola: PNG Forest Authority, Groome Poyry Ltd., and World Bank. [12 Working Papers, total of 273 pages]
• 1994 H. A. Holzknecht, ed. Manual on Land Group Incorporation. Boroko: Forest Management and Planning Project, Landowner Involvement Component. Working Paper 4.

Career Highlights

Director, Morobe Province Research Centre (Inc.) (1977 ? 1992); Provincial Planner - subsequently FAS Policy, Planning and Coordination - in Morobe Province (1980-81); Managing Director, Namasu Group of Companies (1982-85); PhD in Social Anthropology (The Australian National University; 1999); series of consultancy inputs, some as team leader, in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga (1975 ? present); Director, H S M Associates Pty. Ltd. 1987 - present); graduate student advisor and supervisor at The Australian National University (2000 ? present).