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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...
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Methodology of Land Use Priorities and Conflicts Study
Studies based on land uses are essential in order to carry forward development-oriented studies in any part of the world. Land use denotes how land...
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Vote Buying as Rent Seeking: Land Sales in China’s Village Elections
What explains why vote buying occurs in some elections but not others? The phenomenon of vote buying is under-studied in authoritarian,...
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A Complex Relationship: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Land Tenure Security
This chapter highlights the increase in large-scale land acquisitions across the globe and how it is intertwined with land tenure security. Land...
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Public Perception on the Role of Urban Green Infrastructure Development and Land Use Management in Rapidly Urbanized Countries: The Case of Hawassa City, Ethiopia
Urban green areas are essential elements of cities and contribute to the quality of life in numerous ways by maintaining and regulating the...
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The Infrastructures of Land: Heterogeneous Land Administration in Urban Ghana
The main aim of this chapter is to identify and illustrate the challenges arising from the coexistence of statutory and customary land administration...
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Domain A: Rights and Access to Nature—Land, Water, Seeds and Biodiversity
This chapter discusses a seemingly obvious but often underappreciated reality—without secure land tenure as well as access to and control over other...
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Analysing the fragile islandscape of Ritchie's Archipelago: understanding land use changes, biodiversity loss, and tourism impacts on both the ecosystem and islanders
This study aims to assess the spatio-temporal changes in land use and land cover within the Ritchie Archipelago islandscape by utilizing multi-date...
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Regional reorganisation in Ghana: Implication for travel distance and access to critical public services
In 2018, the government of Ghana set out to reorganise some administrative regions to ensure balanced development across the country. The...
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The Influence of Access to Urban Amenities on Urban Environment Satisfaction: A Case Study of Four New Towns in the Vicinity of Seoul, South Korea
This research investigates how access to eight urban amenities impacts people’s satisfaction with the urban environment in four new towns close to...
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Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District
In fast-develo** regions like Southeast Asia monitoring urban areas presents a challenge given the lack of publicly available data. This is an...
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National integrity strategy implementation in land administration to prevent corruption in Bangladesh
Corruption in land administration is one of the challenges in implementing the national integrity strategy (NIS) in Bangladesh. Citizens visiting the...
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Exploitation or Investment of Africa’s Land Resources by the Chinese
The chapter seeks to discuss the thin line between the Africa–China relationship of exploitation or investment in African resources. The chapter...
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Food, Farming and Rural Relationships with the Land
Over the past fifty years agriculture, land use and food systems have dramatically altered on a global scale. Industrial scale agricultural systems...
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Land Use Change and Health
In this chapter, we introduce a conceptual framework that identifies typologies of land use/land cover change and population dynamics connected with...
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Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya
The ongoing fragmentation of pastoral drylands is a matter of concern throughout Africa. Using the example of rangelands in northern Baringo County,...
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“They Do Not Perceive Us as People”: Women with Disabilities’ Access to Key Social Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Zimbabwean Case Study
This study sought to discover how women with disabilities (WWDs) fared at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to access to key social...
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Tiny Homes, Co-housing, and Community Land Trusts
Housing represents an important part of the built environment. The creation of a sustainable and attainable housing system requires innovative...
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Inhabiting the Landscape Through Access Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This chapter is about the kinds of inhabitation of the landscape that are made possible by outdoor access rights in Scotland, with reference to...
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Youth and Citizenship Rights After Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
The article utilises a citizenship rights approach to explore the youth question in post-colonial, post-fast-track land reform Zimbabwe. Invoking...