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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"LAND OWNERSHIP"”.
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Coal mining on a Yorkshire estate: land ownership and personal capitalism, 1850-1914.
The Winn family were landowners with estates at Nostell in Yorkshire and Appleby in Lincolnshire. Their property was mainly agricultural but included a small colliery on the Yorkshire estate. In the late 1850s the Winns’ land was heavily mortgaged and the family was in financial difficulty. The …
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An analysis of land ownership and range management practices in the northern Kansas Flint Hills
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 W542
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Socio-Cultural Practices That Impact Women Farmers' Land Ownership: A Case of Sukuma Women in Tanzania
… food products, yet they don't have legal ownership of land. Customary practices often require women to access land through their husbands, fathers, brothers, or other men who control the land. Men as the heads of household, control everything including the type of crops to cultivate and …
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Investigating Pre-Financial Close Risks Associated with Communal Land Ownership Rights in Onshore Wind Energy Development in South Africa
… resources. One of such challenges is communal land ownership, which is used for the development of wind energy in rural areas. Often, communal lands have no formal land structures, ownership or title deeds to support the individuals and communities that claim possession thereof. This challenge …
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Leveraging public land ownership in the urban land market for commercial property development to achieve socio-economic outcomes in South Africa
… Western Cape Province are involved in the urban land market and, specifically, land supply for commercial property development to optimise socio-economic objectives in the South African property sector. The current conditions, challenges, and opportunities were examined using a qualitative …
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Land ownership patterns as determinant of the availability and accessibility of urban land for residential use : case study ; city of Merida, Venezuela
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… ethically assessed the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land ownership …
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An ethical assessment of the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights: a case study of Mumbwa district
… ethically assessed the impact of inequitable land ownership patterns on women’s economic and social rights in Mumbwa district. Despite more women than men being dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, the majority of women in Zambia do not own land due to inequitable land ownership …
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The potentials and perils of public urban land ownership and management : a case study of the Lagos executive development board (Nigeria) 1928-1972
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Power and community in Scottish community land initiatives
… local initiatives in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Initially labelled “community buyouts” (and so counter posing them to the 1980s “management buyouts” of company shareholdings), they combined the creation of new place-based community organisations with the use of legal-economic …
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Índios & brasileiros : posse da terra Brasilis nos discursos jornalístico on line, político e indígena
… to reflection and analysis the struggle over land in Brazil between Indians and Brazilians, as formulated in the journalistic discourse online, as well as in the political and indigenous discourses, to refer to indigenous land ownership. The main corpus consists of newspaper headlines from …
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"The Land Belongs To Those Who Work It": A Critical Evaluation of Land Redistribution Policy in South Africa, 1994-2012
Land ownership in post-apartheid South Africa carries a powerful symbolic charge for both black and white citizens. Under apartheid, state legislation denied black South Africans access to landownership rights, and confined them to 13 per cent of the available agricultural land. The election of the …
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Spatial and Temporal Land Use Change in Southern Illinois' Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness Areas
… provides a spatial and temporal examination of land use change in a southern Illinois wilderness area. The study area is the Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness areas. Land patent and Forest Service acquisition records were compiled with spatial and temporal elements of land transfers …
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Post settlement challenges for land reform beneficiaries: three case studies from Limpopo Province
… a study of post-settlement experiences of land reform beneficiaries, with a focus on three case studies from Limpopo Province. Since 1994, the South African government has implemented a land reform programme that aims to redress the injustices in land ownership patterns in the country. This …
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The management of the relationship between the local government and traditional leaders : a case of Thulamela Municipality
… local government and traditional leaders over land ownership, control and authority impacts on service delivery and development. Furthermore, the study seeks to find ways through which the relationship between the two institutions could be managed to be harmonious in order to improve service …
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Private Preservation: Using Garden City-Inspired Legal Tools to Preserve Communities and Heritage
… how a reappropriation of privatism and communal land ownership and management can work to preserve communities and heritage as an alternative set of tools to public preservation. Using the law of property to explore private legal and economic preservation tools, this thesis explores the …
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Gavelkind and the Land Market in Somerden Hundred, Kent, 1550-1700
Gavelkind was the default system of land-holding in Kent from the early middle ages until the reform of property law in 1925-26. The research examines how far it still influenced the lives of landowners in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was avoided using wills and …
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Natural Resource Management in Papua New Guinea: An Analysis of the Forestry Sector
… of forests are owned under customary forms of land ownership, and where the majority of the population still rely on the forests for most of their subsistence needs, the dissertation advances two general strategies that attempt to inject more equitable and environmentally sensitive planning …
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Trespass
… written at a moment when renewed questions over land justice and private property are breaking back into mainstream public discourse. There is a growing recognition and horror over the scale of private land ownership in England and Wales as well as what that means for our rights as people on this …
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The governance of rewilding in Scotland: discourse, process, and practice
… which frame and steer rewilding within Scotland, with a particular interest in the<br/>ideas and practice of participation and the place of local communities in rewilding<br/>endeavours. This is important, for although rewilding is about natural ecological processes<br/>underpinned by …
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