Papua New Guinea's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project has been beset by an intractable ‘landowner problem' since 2009, throughout its construction and operation. This paper begins by proposing that the problem has four different aspects or dimensions, each of which can be considered as a...

Large-scale mines and local-level politics / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur -- From anticipation to practice: social and economic management of the nickel plant's establishment in New Caledonia's North Province / Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Sonia Grochain and David Poithily -- Social and...

We derive two measures of human well-being from the 2000 national census and seek to establish the relative strength of their association with 12 geographical variables in a comparative study of the 85 partially rural districts of Papua New Guinea. We find that the accessibility of health and...

Multiple regressions are used to assess the relative significance of a number of political and social variables that might be associated with the likelihood of sitting MPs retaining or losing their seats in the 85 partially rural open electorates of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The tests reveal that...