Small Islands in Peril?: Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia (Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs)

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