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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Land settlement"”.
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For Want of Land: A Study of Land Settlement in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars
The study analyses, in unprecedented detail, land settlement schemes in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars. Land settlement is a world-‐wide phenomenon, which in the context of this research involves the examination of the creation of new crofts and the enlargement of …
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Two Cost Analyses in Resource Economics: The Public Service Costs of Alternative Land Settlement Patterns and Effluent Allowance Trading in Long Island Sound
… to inform public policy decisions on the use of land and water resources. The first presents some public service costs associated with different spatial forms of land development. The second cost analysis presents costs associated with three different policy options for meeting water quality …
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'Wheat and Tares Together Grow': Common Whites in a North Carolina Slave Society, 1740--1840
Land settlement between the Dan River tributaries suggest there were conditions among common whites that encouraged a sense of unity with elites. Applications from social theory explain why commoners supported slavery. Study of nineteenth century rural consumer culture indicates consumer purchasing …
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Socioeconomic stratification and differentiation of the modern peasantry: a longitudinal analysis of small farmers in Röndonia, Brazil
Land settlement programs have been promoted by governments worldwide to accomplish such broad goals as providing equitable land distribution among national populations, expanding agricultural production, correcting population imbalances, providing new income opportunities to the poor and landless, …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… scale estates and processing facilities and land settlement schemes for smallholders. One such scheme was the Cape Hoskins Oil Palm Land Settlement Scheme. Commencing in 1968 this was the first large scale 'nucleus estate' in the country and had as its objectives the introduction of oil palm …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… scale estates and processing facilities and land settlement schemes for smallholders. One such scheme was the Cape Hoskins Oil Palm Land Settlement Scheme. Commencing in 1968 this was the first large scale 'nucleus estate' in the country and had as its objectives the introduction of oil palm …
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Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of central Jordan
… widespread protests. It considers questions of land settlement, sovereignty and the politics of everyday life in a rural region from which the protest movement dubbed Jordan's 'Arab Spring' emerged among supposedly traditionalist and loyalist Bedouin. I examine the historical context behind the …
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Land Purchase Policy in Ireland, 1917-23: From the Irish convention to the 1923 land act
… the Irish convention met in 1917. it set up a land purchase subcommittee under the chairmanship of Lord Anthony McDonnell. Having examined the financial arrangements of previous legislation, as outlined in Chapter One, it came to the conclusion that these acts had failed, to complete lands …
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Land reform process in Namibia: a study of the impact of land reform on beneficiaries in Otjozondjupa region, Namibia
… has been responsible for facilitating the resettlement of destitute and landless people since its independence in 1990. The provision of resettlement is a very contentious issue in Namibia. The bulk of land is still in the hands of minority white communities and foreigners. It is against this …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… and social justifications of the FeIda-type land development approach as a means of alleviating the standard of living of the selected 1 landless' rural population have been proven by a number of researchers (for example, Lim, 1972; Singh, 1965, and McAndrews, 1976). This study compares …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… and social justifications of the FeIda-type land development approach as a means of alleviating the standard of living of the selected 1 landless' rural population have been proven by a number of researchers (for example, Lim, 1972; Singh, 1965, and McAndrews, 1976). This study compares …
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A history of the Gwembe Valley Tonga since the constructuion of Kariba dam, 1958-1998
… Basically, the study analyses the process of resettlement and adaptation of the valley people, highlighting in particular the concomitant hardships of a critical shortage of land, over-crowding and poor food supply in the resettlement areas. Ultimately, the Kariba Project became an instrument by …
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A history of the Gwembe Valley Tonga since the constructuion of Kariba dam, 1958-1998
… Basically, the study analyses the process of resettlement and adaptation of the valley people, highlighting in particular the concomitant hardships of a critical shortage of land, over-crowding and poor food supply in the resettlement areas. Ultimately, the Kariba Project became an instrument by …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
… Mughal manuscript painting, architectural, and landscape drawing, and miniatures - showcasing his ability to skillfully modify his technique to suit a particular patron. His working method also indicates that artistic knowledge available to the painter reached him through discrete channels such …
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The problem of scale in the Venezuelan Agrarian Reform
Research Paper (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1965
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An analysis of historic period Chickasaw settlement patterns
… my thesis examines the Chickasaw Indian settlement patterns in northeast Mississippi from late prehistory through Indian removal in the early nineteenth century. It is suggested that the changes and social reorganization prompted by the contact between European and aboriginal cultures is …
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PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT VARIABILITY IN THE GRASSHOPPER AREA, EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA
The variability of prehistoric settlements and settlement systems (settlement variability) is a result of the kinds of activities conducted (functional variability) and how long and intensively settlements were occupied (occupational variability). Previous studies of settlement variability, …
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Alluvial cycles and early agricultural settlement phases in the Jordan Valley
… influenced by tectonism, climatic changes, human land use, and natural geomorphic thresholds, sometimes in combination. The stratigraphy and chronology of early agricultural settlements in the valley are summarized, and investigations at a protohistoric agricultural town are described. Major …
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