Land Law and Natural Disasters in the South Pacific

See UN Human Settlements Programme (‘UN-HABITAT’), Land and Natural Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners (2010) 1–3.

Australian Agency for International Development (‘AusAID’), Making Land Work: Reconciling customary land and development in the Pacific (2008) 3. See also Corrin Jennifer Paterson Don , Introduction to South Pacific Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

This finding is based on an extended analysis of land, disasters and human mobility in the Pacific see Fitzpatrick Daniel , ‘Land and Human Mobility in the Pacific: The Effects of Natural Disasters’ (Discussion Paper, The Nansen Initiative). It also includes interviews undertaken by the authors of government officials in Solomon Islands and Fiji.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (‘OHCHR’), ‘Protecting the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Natural Disasters: Challenges in the Pacific’ (Discussion Paper, UNHCR, 2011) 5.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (‘OCHA’), Fiji: Building resilience in the face of climate change (11 September 2014) <http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/fiji-building-resilience-face-climate-change>.

AusAID, above n 2, 12–17. See also Care Jennifer Corrin , ‘Customary Land and the Language of the Common Law’ (2008) 37 Common Low World Review 305.

Paterson Don , ‘Conflicts Arising from Management and Use of Customary Land’ (Paper presented at South Pacific Land Tenure Conflict Symposium, University of the South Pacific, 10–12 April 2002).

See Loughry Maryanne McAdam Jane , ‘Kiribati – relocation and adaptation’ (2008) 31 Forced Migration Review 5l, 51–52; Campbell John R , ‘International Relocation From Pacific Island Countries: Adaptation Failure’ (Report presented at International Conference on Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, Bonn, Germany, 9–11 October 2008).

Tokelau Amendment Act 1967, s 25.

Constitution of the Independent State of Western Samoa 1960, art 102.

Land Act 1996, s 9.

Land Act 1969, s 17.

Native Land Trust Act, Cap 134, s 5(1).

Constitution of Vanuatu 1980, art 79.

Native Lands Ordinance 1974, s 5.

Land and Titles Act, Cap 133, s 241 (1).

See Storey Donovan , State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project: Urbanisation in the Pacific (Australian National University, 2006); Connell John , ‘Elephants in the Pacific? Pacific urbanisation and its discontents’ (2011) 52 Asia Pacific Viewpoint 121, 121–135.

Fitzpatrick , above n 3, 21.

UN-REDD, Guidelines on Free, Prior and Informed Consent (January 2013) <http://theredddesk.org/resources/guidelines-free-prior-and-informed-consent>.

See Petz Daniel , Neglected Displacement Human Mobility in Pacific Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Mechanisms (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013).