The CoombsWeb WWW VL is a wealth of material related to social science in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau maintains an extensive collection of microfilm documents relating to early European exploration of the southern Pacific.
Maps are available in electronic or paper format.
While the Cartography Unit Website is still under construction, Unit Head Keith Mitchell can be contacted on 6125 2230. The goal of the Land Management Project is to understand the critical role of land managers in sustaining production from land. The LMP employs the broad concept of 'agricultural system' to encapsulate the complex relationships between the human managers, the land, the plants and animals they use to support themselves, and the natural and social environments in which they are embedded. This goal is being pursued through a number of research themes at a number of geographical scales and locations, mainly in Papua New Guinea. Funded with the assistance of AusAID and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade , it combines the normal academic agenda of scholarly research, writing, training graduate students, and performance in national and international forums with focussed investigation of strategies for addressing practical problems of governance and society in Melanesian contexts.