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Akwesasne: Land of the Toxic Turtles
In this chapter our account takes us to a Native American community where, for several centuries of human occupancy, the site the Mohawks call...
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Urban Farming and Land Use Governance in Metro Manila
Land use dilemmas brought about by rapid urban growth present complex challenges in urban governance toward sustainable and inclusive cities. To this...
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Russian experience of land reforms
The paper aimed to study land reforms in the Russian Federation from the abolition of serfdom to the present time. The research was carried out by...
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A Theory of Urban Land Rent
I argued in the previous chapter that land prices under capitalism were in the first instance determined like all commodities by their value....
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Land System Reform
Land system reform is a significant social realistic problem in China at present. If the work has been done well, it will be of great significance to...
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Post-cold War Ethiopian Land Policy and State Power in Land Commercialisation
Land policyLandpolicy is one of the issues that affects the lives of millions of people in EthiopiaEthiopia. The main purpose of this chapter is to...
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Land Administration, Chiefs, and Governance in Ghana
This chapter examines the role of chiefsChief in the administration of land in GhanaGhana within a historical framework dating back to the...
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Judas Culture in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: Gender and Land Redistribution in Raymond’s Choto’s Vavariro (1990)
Most former African colonies were dispossessed of their land by the colonial settlers, Zimbabwe is no exception. As a way of redressing these...
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Decentralizing Consumption to Recenter the Land
This chapter investigates a new pathway from a society based upon commodification and land-based exploitation to centering the land as a means to...
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Traversing State, Agribusinesses, and Farmers’ Land Discourse in Kenyan Commercial Intensive Agriculture
From a qualitative study of sugarcaneSugarcane production in ChemelilChemelil(western Kenya)Kenya and insights drawn from the Kenyan land reformLand-...
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Urban-Rural Land Planning Management Reform
Urban-rural land planning management system reform has not held high attention across the whole society by now. Conventional comprehension about land...
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Whose Land Is This Anyway?
This chapter introduces the reader to the general context of the case study of Yamuna farmers using political ecology as an organizing framework to...
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Land Rights, Displacements, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s South-Eastern Borderlands: The Case of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project
The displacement of peasant communities by the Chisumbanje ethanol project in Chi**e district in Zimbabwe triggered controversies on whether the...
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Politics of Land Resource Management in Mozambique
Mozambique’sMozambique 1997 Land Law was praised by international donorsDonor and the country’s own civil society for its democratic and open...
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The Land Reclamation Processes and the Mutually Beneficial Consequences to Local Mining Communities.
This chapter starts with the analysis of the case studies underpinning the empirical inquiry. As earlier indicated, dominant narratives on ASM often...
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Modernizing the U.S. Strategic Land-Based Missile Force: Prudent Necessity or Deterrence Distraction?
Consensus exists among U.S. government officials and defense policy experts with respect to modernization of the strategic nuclear triad of land and...
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Renewed Patronage and Strengthened Authority of Chiefs Under the Scarcity of Customary Land in Zambia
The Zambian government enacted the 1995 Lands Act with the aim of stimulating investment and agricultural productivity. This Act strengthened the...
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Land and Environmental Art: Reflecting on Creative Processes of Singapore Contemporary Artists
This chapter reflects on the ways in which the beauty and fragility of our environment can be understood and amplified through how artists relate to...
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No Sharīʿa in the Land of Sharīʿa
In this chapter, I analyze the interaction between the Western and the Islamic legal perspectives based on a first constitutional model, and assuming...
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Epilogue of a Short-Lived Land Rush: Private, Rural, and Urban Land Tenure in South Sudan
This article investigates three forms of land tenure in South Sudan: investor leasehold, rural customary, and urban freehold. South Sudan’s...