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Evaluating the “Village Forests” in Indonesia: Property Rights and Sustainability Perspectives
The “Village Forest” is a right given to a village government to manage certain area of forest around the village. This study discusses the...
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Intimate partner violence and female property rights
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects 30% of ever-partnered women worldwide. This study demonstrates how stronger female marital property rights...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Naturally Derived Bioactive Compounds, and Resource Conservation
On October 20 to 22, 1994, an interim annual meeting was hosted by the American Society of Pharmacognosy in San Jose, Costa Rica. During the...
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How do Property Rights Affect Credit Restrictions? Evidence from China’s Forest Right Mortgages
Taking China’s recently developed Forest Right Mortgage System (FRMS) as an example, this paper examines the impact of the strength of farmers’...
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Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Biotechnology and Breeding
Plant breeding and innovation in agricultural biotechnology have been very important to increase agricultural productivity and quality which in turn...
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Intellectual Property Principles in Microbial Technologies
Intellectual property basically takes into consideration any creation or innovation which could be seen as a sort of asset or a physical property...
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Women empowerment, Land Tenure and Property Rights, and household food security among smallholders in Nigeria
BackgroundEmpowering women, land tilting to enhance the security of Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPRs) in agriculture vis-a-vis food and...
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Forest Owners’ Perspectives Concerning Non-Timber Forest Products, Everyman’s Rights, and Organic Certification of Forests in Eastern Finland
Global trends towards the bioeconomy and multidimensional ecosystem-based approaches are transforming our understanding of forests and expanding...
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Common Property in Europe: Landscape Design Evolution Over Time
The term “commons” is used today to indicate a set of land property models, use or management of resources based on a fundamental element: namely...
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Property Rights and Institutional Arrangements of a Man-Made Wetland in Dryland Area of West Bengal, India
The property right is one of the most vital factors determining the sustainable governance and utilization of the wetlands. The paper analyses...
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Cetacean Personhood, Rights, and Flourishing
CetaceansCetacea/cetaceans are large-brained intelligent mammals with long-term bonds, social associations across multiple levels, and learned...
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Land Rights of Women in India: How Much Has Changed After 2005
Gender equality has been the cornerstone of the Indian constitution and India’s democratic principles; however, gender inequality and biases persist...
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A Deity We Belong to or a Property to Own? Relations Between Land and People in the Sayan Mountains in Southern Siberia
This chapter considers the religious beliefs of the Buryats and Soyots that inhabit the Sayan Mountains of south Siberia. It places the relations...
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Law and Nature: Human, Non-human, and Ecosystem Rights
The major exponents of the Western philosophical tradition have long maintained a conception of rights according to which only human beings can be...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Threatened Medicinal Plants: The Scenario
Medicinal plants are nature’s gift to blossom human well-being, without any exaggeration. Research trends from decades highlight the fact that nature...
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