Migration, Land and Livelihooods: Creating Alternative Modernities in the Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780367739591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 8 str.

George Curry; Gina Koczberski; John Connell

Opis

Population growth, urbanization and environmental change have contributed to new tensions and discords and complex structures of land ownership, migration and resettlement in Pacific island states. This book examines how local people have responded and negotiated changes in seeking to achieve and manage effective and sustainable livelihoods.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: enacting modernity in the Pacific?  2. Population Resettlement in the Pacific: lessons from a hazardous history?  3. Migration, Informal Urban Settlements and Non-market Land Transactions: a case study of Wewak, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea  4. Land, Identity and Conflict on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands  5. Changing Land Tenure and Informal Land Markets in the Oil Palm Frontier Regions of Papua New Guinea: the challenge for land reform  6. Access to Land and Livelihoods in Post-conflict Timor-Leste

O autorze

George Curry is Professor of Geography in the Faculty of the Built Environment at Curtin University, Perth.

Gina Koczberski is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of the Built Environment at Curtin University, Perth.

John Connell is Professor of Geography in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney.