Chimbu people under pressure : the social impact of urbanisation in Papua New Guinea

Abstract

This study by Dr. Jennifer Dalton is one of several conducted as part of the Papu aNew Guinea Human Ecology Program run during late 1977 and early 1978.The basic objective of this Progranm was to examine from an integrated ecological perspective the problems of development facing the industrial city of Lae and its hinterland.Researchers were concerned with the impact of urbanisation on both the social and physical environments,and hence focussed on the relationship between urban and rural commununities affected by the changes accompanying rural to urban migration and increasing contact the Western market economy.