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.

• 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

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.

• 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