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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Landownership"”.
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The anticommons problem in China’s landownership system and its reform
… to analyze China’s current law and policy about landownership. During its fast industrialization and urbanization process, it is widely believed that China has been suffering from the inconsistency between the growing demands of assembled urban land and factually highly fragmented suburban and …
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The abandonment of landownership: a proposed model for regulated exit
The question whether it is possible to abandon landownership is unresolved in South African law. The subject has only rarely been the subject of attention by scholars, with legislation and existing case law providing little in the way of clear guidance. This lack of clarity is obviously not ideal. …
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The Role of Private Landownership in Facilitating Sustainable Rural Communities in Upland Scotland
Privately-owned estates dominate Scotland’s uplands, and their owners’ decisions greatly influence rural communities. While the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 has altered power relations in rural areas, its impact on landowner-community dynamics has received little attention. Discourse on the …
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The Highlands
… family to explore disordered relationships, landownership, inheritance, and immobility.</p> <p>The collection is divided into two parts, The Landowner’s Daughter and Dear Katharine. The poems in the first section have a stronger connection to the land, while the poems in the second half …
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Contrasting rural communities: The experience of South Yorkshire in the mid-nineteenth century.
… town of Doncaster, which differed in terms of landownership and land type. Using a range of comparable and widely available nineteenth century sources, including Census Enumerators' Books, trade directories, newspapers and government reports, in addition to estate records where they survive, …
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A comparison of Scottish and Norwegian hutting traditions, with particular reference to the communities of Carbeth and Lindøya 1905-2013
… history of widespread and relatively uncontested landownership made Norwegians feel connected to nature and able to obtain individual hut sites in desirable, secluded, wooded settings with relative ease compared to the precarious and strictly-ordered hutting communities established by Scots. The …
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Constraints and opportunities for integrated multifunctional forest management in the Cairngorms region of Scotland
… not been explored. Furthermore, the effects of landownership on forest management are unclear. The key aim of this research was to evaluate how forests and woodlands in the Cairngorms are being managed, and to determine the main constraints and opportunities to the further application of a …
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The values of nature: personal narratives of conservation in South Africa
… between humans, nature and conservation. Landownership was more than business as usual; land embodied deep and meaningful emotions, experiences and discourses of daily human life. Landscapes embodied personal emotions of owners through shaping their identities, spirituality, belonging and …
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Determining the Suitability of Functional Landscapes and Wildlife Corridors Utilizing Conservation GIS Methods in Denton County, Texas.
… posed by continued growth and private landownership.
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Food production strategies and the sustenance of rural livelihood at Umzumbe
… a number of factors, ranging from the system of landownership, lack of capital and labour shortages to social problems like population increase and attitudes towards food production. The aim of this research was to examine the problems related to the process of food production among the peasantry …
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Rural settlement contraction in the East Riding of Yorkshire c.1660-1760 with particular reference to the Bainton Beacon division
… and extent of contraction was the nature of landownership in individual settlements. Two chapters are devoted to examining the physical impact which contraction had upon settlements showing that, whilst the 'shrunken' village was the most common outcome, desertion of villages between 1660 and …
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Linking the landscape: legal and policy tools to promote connected habitats in fragmented landscapes
… habitat reserves and is dominated by private landownership. How do we establish corridors in landscapes like those in central Illinois or the sprawling metro-Chicago suburbs? Implementing linkages in these landscapes will require a coordinated, inter-governmental effort on landscape and …
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Prescribed Fire Perspectives of African American Landowners in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
African American landownership is decreasing in the southeastern United States. At the same time, prescribed fire use, research, and outreach are increasing. This disparity between changing landowner demographics and a renewed interest in a historically prevalent land management tool has prompted a …
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Aristocrats into Modernity: French Émigrés and the Refashioning of Noble Identities
… of practices and discourses. Some turned to landownership and argued that land was the foundation of the order’s moral superiority and socio-economic power. Others turned to commerce to rebuild their fortunes and re-establish their families on a favourable footing in post-revolutionary …
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Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La LIbertad, Chontales (1895-1995)
… (through which family labor was mobilized and landownership and use framed) and an expansive frontier (through which land pressure was relieved and farm fragmentation mitigated), although larger ranchers and landlords depended upon and benefited from these as well, albeit in different ways. The …
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Valdžia ir erdvė: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teritorializacijos procesas XIV–XVI a /
… explained. The research of boundaries in private landownership and their delimitation in the 15th–16th centuries draw main conclusions, which give some information concerning the genesis of the GDL’s state frontier concept. The development of the frontier between the GDL and the Teutonic Order in …
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The evolution of British imperial perceptions in Ireland and India c. 1650 - 1800
… that revealed broader imperial attitudes towards landownership and the fifth one elaborates on the use of visual representations of empire as propaganda tools to shape public opinion. In the final chapter, selected experiences of the Irish in India illustrate examples of colonial subjects’ …
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Legacy and Land: The role of legacy motive in improving the quality of housing developments in the UK
… motive is strongly related to the long-term landownership and the amount of control over the development process. It is demonstrated that legacy motive affects landowners’ decision-making on instrumental, social, expressive and intrinsic level, and leads to a more long-term and socially …
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Land use analysis for agroforestry research and development: a case study for Luwero district in Uganda
… population (>50 years), widespread temporary landownership, and a predominance of family labour. Shortages of cash, lack of credit facilities and external inputs, poor marketing and transportation infrastructure, and inadequate extension services are identified constraints. The banana-coffee …
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Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925
… generated in the past historiography regarding landownership change involving different classes of rural people, variously described in texts as freeholders, leaseholders, yeomen, husbandmen, small farmers and peasants. Though copyhold owner-occupiers, farming their land were usually described …
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