The development of plantation agriculture and the fertility of the soils in the Banana Plain and the Mount Cameron area have created dense human settlements.
The development of plantation forestry has become increasingly commonplace in many parts of rural Australia, and it has been met with mixed reactions from rural communities.
While diversification into other agricultural land uses apparently takes place with little consternation or resistance, the development of plantation forestry on agricultural land is often accompanied by concern and controversy.
"It was widely accepted that the development of plantations in the palm oil sector" caused emissions, said Marc den Hartog, a member of the roundtable's board and an executive at IOI Group, a Malaysian palm oil company.
Trade with Spain's colonies in Central America flourished, even after those colonies attained independence in the 1820s; however, the development of plantations in Belize was forbidden by the treaties with Spain.
The main reason for this increase is probably the rapid development of plantations in China.
Results also indicate that under ideal conditions the long-term effect of restoration may even fully offset this impact, though really such conditions are far from being the case in the usual development of plantations.
On other subjects -- the designs of houses, the artifacts that have been dug up in archaeological excavations and the development of Plimouth Plantation, today's museum of Pilgrim life -- the Deetzes' book is dry, textbookish and of interest more to scholars than to general readers.
Their native languages are as diverse as Creole, Wolof, Albanian and Arabic, but they now all have to face questions like: "The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?" (answer: rocky soil and short growing season).
As a U.S. territory, Hawaii until 1940 was distinguished by a rapid growth in population, the development of a plantation economy based on the production of sugar and pineapples for consumption on the U.S. mainland, and the growth of transport and military links.
However, the development of a plantation forestry resource will raise the importance of the forestry sector in the Tongan economy.
