After the floods: Urban displacement, lessons from Solomon Islands

Keen, Meg; McNeil, Alan

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After the floods: Urban displacement, lessons from Solomon Islands

Date

2016

Authors

Keen, Meg

McNeil, Alan

Publisher

Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University

Abstract

This In Brief documents the challenges government authorities — the Honiara City Council (HCC) and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey (MLHS) — faced when they created a new subdivision for the displaced, April Ridge, and considers the lessons for more responsive planning.