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  1. 1. From community ownership to community fellowship : qualitative analysis of the socio-economic consequences of asset redistribution in rural Scotland

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Mathieu Baptiste Adrien Chanteloup; [2022]
    Keywords : asset redistribution; commoning; community building; community capacity; spiralling-up trajectory; social capital; rural development; Scotland;

    Abstract : Understanding inequalities regarding land and asset ownership is essential to comprehending rural areas. An unbalance situation regarding the ownership of assets, especially in rural areas where people are even more dependent on land management and the resources they can get from it, makes rural society more fragile. READ MORE

  3. 2. Land redistributions in Denmark: can agricultural exceptionalism produce multifunctional landscapes? : An analysis of the Multifunctional Land Redistribution Fund and its likely implications for future land use in Denmark

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sara Kjær Rasmussen; [2020]
    Keywords : multifunctionality; agricultural exceptionalism; consensus; land use governance; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the Multifunctional Land Redistribution Fund, launched in March 2020 by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food, and the outcomes this policy may propel. The Fund takes aim at multiple issues of sustainability related to land use: biodiversity loss, groundwater contamination, nutrient leaching, and rural development. READ MORE

  4. 3. A wind of change in Germany: From local opposition against wind energy towards the national social movement Vernunftkraft

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : David Fritsch; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Energiewende; Energy Transition; Justice; Social Movement Theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : To reach the targets of the Paris Agreement and reduce its CO2 emissions, the expansion of wind energy on land as part of the so-called ‘Energiewende’ (energy transition) is of major significance for Germany. Yet, these sustainability endeavors are under serious attack due to a multitude of protesters that oppose wind energy efforts and unite under the label ‘Vernunftkraft’ to resist the energy transition. READ MORE

  5. 4. Evaluating structural landscape development in the municipality Upplands-Bro, using landscape metrics indices

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Marcus Eriksson; [2020]
    Keywords : Geography; Geographical Information Systems; landscape development; land use; landscape indices; FRAGSTATS; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to evaluate and describe the landscape development in an area located in the municipality of Upplands-Bro, Sweden. The main hypothesis was that the landscape patterns in the study area have changed, as I expected to discover that the landscape has undergone structural changes, in form of both changed land use and changed landscape patch composition. READ MORE

  6. 5. The perceptions of young South Africans to the land reform : -A qualitative study of young people in Stellenbosch

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Julia Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Land reform; South Africa; Stellenbosch; Relative deprivation theory; Inequality; Historical injustices; Redistribution of land;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the opinions of the land reform by the young population in Stellenbosch, South Africa. So far, the land reform that was implemented already in 1994, has not proven to be effective on the country’s huge inequality of land ownership between the black and white population. READ MORE