On the 11-12 July 2011, thirty leading thinkers and practitioners on property rights came together for 'Land Resource Compensation: a Pacific Regional Symposium' hosted by the UTS: Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights in association with the International Academic Association for Planning, Law and Property Rights.

With a focus on land management, this symposium focused on key issues of land acquisition and land compensation related to mineral exploration, indigenous dispossession and emergent property rights relating to climate adaptation.