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Land and Food Access in the Context of Climate Change: Implications to Rural Development in Mozambique
This chapter underlines the need to rethink the set of solutions to the current climate crisis and deepen the understanding of the direct...
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A Fixed and Versatile Resource: Land Resources
This chapter introduces the use and allocation of land resources and analyses the use of land resources in China. Section 6.1 of the chapter...
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Drivers of Land-Use Change in Agroforestry Landscapes of Southern Mexico
The causes of deforestation and forest degradation are complex and often region-specific. Socioeconomic factors have been identified as the primary...
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Can gender-equitable access to and control over resources improve rural household food security? Case study in West Africa
Gender has been broadly acknowledged to play an essential role in a household’s food security. However, most of the existing studies have assessed...
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Revisiting Enduring Labour Questions and Social Reproduction Dynamics in Rural Zimbabwe’s Post Land Reform Context: Implications on Citizen Welfare and Wellbeing
Enduring agrarian labour questions and social reproduction dynamics in former settler colonies like Zimbabwe have always been a subject of much...
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Managing public urban lands for sustainable urban development in Bujumbura, Burundi: The role of land administration system
Public Urban Lands (PULs) are among the pieces of land that will contribute to achieving sustainable urban development. There is a need to have an...
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Land use and cover change in Dar es Salaam metropolitan city: satellite data and CA-Markov chain analysis
Land use and land cover change is driven by a complex interaction involving multiple environmental, climatic, and social factors. This study employs...
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Where do we go for our livelihoods? Conflicts over access, ownership and control of natural resources in the Mole National Park, Ghana
Globally, Natural Resource (NR) stocks have been the cause of conflicts motivated by livelihoods considerations and the non-inclusion of community...
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Predicting urban growth and its impact on fragile environment using Land Change Modeler (LCM): a case study of Djelfa City, Algeria
This study aims at predicting the urban growth of Djelfa, which is the largest Algerian semi-arid city, and assessing its impact on Land Use / Land...
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A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security
In this chapter, we explore the forces that have shaped the current challenge of securing land tenure for those with little voice, power, and means....
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Social Cohesion and Firms’ Access to Finance in Africa
Social cohesion has recently gained increasing attention in academic and policy circles. Apart from being a necessary feature of stable societies per...
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Rethinking Effective Urban Land Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving Towards a Transcendental Critical Realist Approach
Land provides a foundation for socio-cultural identity, economic survival and political stability in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries....
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A comparative study of participatory land-use planning and the theory of the right to the city
Participatory Land use planning (PLUP) has recently become a significant element of planning in develo** countries. Nevertheless, despite the...
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Population grid and location quotient of land cover to capture the urban-rural nature of labour market areas in Italy
Urban-rural classifications are relevant tools for the implementation of economic and social policies that put emphasis on urbanisation patterns....
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Livelihood outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions in Northern Ghana in the context of water, energy and food nexus
This paper draws experiences and insights from two Large-Scale Land Investment (LSLI) cases in three predominantly rural districts in northern Ghana...
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Land Use Changes Assessment using a triangulated framework: Perception Interviews, Land-Use/Land Cover Observation, and Spatial Planning Analysis in Tanjung Batu and Derawan Island, Indonesia
Understanding land-use change is imperative in the management of Indonesian coastal ecosystems with numerous environmental impacts generated from...
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Access to Neighbourhood Services and Subjective Poverty in Hong Kong
This study tests the institutional/service mechanism of the neighbourhood effect by investigating the relationship between access to neighbourhood...
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Local Governance, Ecological Knowledge, and Spatial Models: Assessing Resource Access in a Forest Commons
Local ecological knowledge informs how natural resource patches are identified and valued across a landscape by communities that rely on them....
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Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)
For decades, Mexico has been one of the major illegal opium poppy cultivation countries in the world. In 2017-2018 the price of the opium gum dropped...
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Out of “Site”, Out of Mind?: Politics of Land Compensation for Chinese Rural Migrants
Local governments’ failure to provide proper compensation for rural residents’ land rights has been one of the main sources of political conflict in...