Bedford, Richard2011-03-282011-03-282010Bedford, R. (2010). Responding to the urbanisation of Melanesia’s populations: a critical 21st century challenge. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 25(3), 242-244.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5203Rowan Callick’s (1993) deliberately provocative ‘doomsday scenario’ for an increasingly impoverished and marginalised Pacific by 2010 was primarily designed to challenge a prevailing tendency at the time towards complacency about medium-term prospects for a region where the great majority of the population remained ruralresident.application/pdfenThis article has been published in the journal: Pacific Economic Bulletin. © 2010 The Australian National University. Used with permission.populationJournal Article