This book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development because of scientific and anecdotal evidence of a common link between rapid population growth, degradation of the local resource base, and intensification of disputes over the ownership and use of terrestrial and marine resources. The authors are all anthropologists with a specific interest in the question of whether the economic and social 'safety valves' that have previously served to break some of the feedback loops between these trends appear to be losing their efficacy. While much of the debate about economy-society-environment relationships on small islands has been overtaken by a narrow focus on the problem of climate change, the authors show that there are many other factors at work in the transformation of island lives and livelihoods.

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List of Tables
Table 2.1: Distribution of populated islands between regions of PNG
Table 2.2: Distribution of small islands and islanders between coastal regions of PNG in 2000
Table 2.3: Remoteness of small islands from bigger islands or the mainland
Table 2.4: Population of very small and remote (or far-flung) islands in 2000
Table 2.5: Numbers of rural villagers counted as living on small islands in 2000
Table 2.6: Percentage of villagers absent from 241 small islands containing rural villages in 1979
Table 2.7: Village population growth rates on small islands with rural villages, 1980–2000
Table 3.1: Bwanabwana islands recorded in the 2000 national census
Table 3.2: Growth of the Bwanabwana island population, 1980–2011
Table 3.3: Absentees in the Bwanabwana island population, 1979–1980
Table 3.4: Primary source of income before and after the moratorium
Table 3.5: Reasons why people disagreed or agreed with the moratorium
Table 3.6: Outstanding school fee payments for 2009 at Tubetube primary school
Table 6.1: Rural village population density in 1980
Table 6.2: Percentage of households consuming different food crops on previous day in 1982
Table 6.3: Sources of household income from own agricultural production in 1980
Table 6.4: Rural village populations in 1958 and 1980
Table 6.5: Lihirian rural village populations on the four islands in 1980 and 2014
Table 6.6: Lihirian rural village populations in two parts of Aniolam in 1980 and 2014
List of Figures
Figure 2.1: Provinces of Papua New Guinea
Figure 3.1: Initial conceptual framework for the Milne Bay SMIP Program
Figure 3.2: Map of the Bwanabwana region
Figure 3.3: Assortment of bêche-de-mer on Koyagaugau Island, 2005
Figure 3.4: Decoration of clay pot on Ware Island, 2005
Figure 3.5: Sailau undergoing renovation on Tubetube Island, 2005
Figure 3.6: ‘Blue boat’ moored at Kavieng Wharf, 2017
Figure 4.1: Map of Marovo Lagoon showing districts and a selection of main villages
Figure 4.2: Tusu Marovo and its associated lagoon and barrier reef from the air, facing due north from above the Vangunu mainland, 2010
Figure 4.3: Morning view from the east of the characteristic peaked silhouette of Tusu Marovo, with the barrier islands of central Marovo Lagoon in the background, 2012
Figure 4.4: Recent aerial view of Tusu Marovo, showing locations of three major villages
Figure 4.5: Buli Te Lagiti (Lagiti’s petrified throwing clubs), 1996
Figure 4.6: House on rock foundation in the tidal zone of Babata, Tusu Marovo, early 1890s
Figure 4.7: Part of Chea village, Tusu Marovo, 2012
Figure 5.1: Papua New Guinea and Manam Island
Figure 5.2: Manam Island and environs
Figure 5.3: Nineteenth-century engraving of Manam Island
Figure 5.4: Manam Volcano, 1987
Figure 5.5: Manam Island villages and radial valleys formed by lava flows
Figure 6.1: The Lihir group of islands
Figure 6.2: Masahet Island
Figure 6.3: Garden stone wall, Masahet Island
Figure 6.4: Shells used to make shell money
Figure 6.5: Malo ferns on Masahet Island, 2002
Figure 6.6: Ceremonial men’s house on Malie Island, 2007
Figure 6.7: Fibreglass banana boats at Mahur, 2016
Figure 6.8: Customary feast on Mahur Island, unveiling of mormor (memorial depicting deceased clan members), 2015
Contributors
1. Introduction
2. On the Classification of Small Island Communities in Papua New Guinea
3. Livelihood Dilemmas on Some Small Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
4. Pilot Fish Rock, or, How to Live Large on a Small Island in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
5. Manam Lives in Limbo: Resilience and Adaptation in Papua New Guinea
6. Pressures and Perils in the Stony Bits of Lihir, Papua New Guinea
7. Conclusion

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