Essays about: "land tenure and land use"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words land tenure and land use.

1. 11. From Communal to Private: Dynamics of a Changing Land Tenure System in Chepareria, West Pokot County, Kenya

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Laura Saxer; [2014-12-18]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In the context of the ongoing land use change in pastoral areas in East Africa, new developments and dynamics imply various shifts in pastoralist livelihoods and land management. Previous research has engaged in a polarised debate of private versus communal tenure. READ MORE

3. 12. Chinese land reform:property rights and land use

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Xinhao Yang; [2014]
   Keywords : land ownership; property rights; land reform; rules of law.; private property rights; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Is China’s “property rights” legislation, which distinguishes transferable “property rights” and inalienable “land ownership”, a new concept that is unknown before, or a pragmatic reversion to the individual property rights system abolished by the communist revolution? This study claims that the latter is a better exposition. As part of a “socialist market economy”, such a reversion is manifested in the legal recognition of the leasehold tenure after the “responsibility system” in agricultural production had proved to be successful. READ MORE

4. 13. A multi-scale analysis of biofuel-related land acquisitions in Tanzania : with focus on Sweden as an investor

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Emma Johansson; [2013]
   Keywords : social impacts; environmental impacts; jatropha; sugarcane; Tanzania; Sweden; biofuel; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; Land acquisition; DPSIR; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Spurred on by pressure to find sustainable energy production alternatives to fossil fuels, many industries have been acquiring land in order to plant crops for biofuel production. In Tanzania, biofuel development is in an early stage, and over the last decade, several foreign actors have tried to start up biofuel projects in the country (without success). READ MORE

5. 14. Fishing the future. A snapshot of the Chilean TURFs through the lens of fishers and key stakeholders‟ perceptions

   University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Jorge Ueyonahara; [2012]
   Keywords : Concholepas concholepas; Chile; environmental discourse; small scale fisheries; sustainable development; territorial use right for fisheries; TURFs.;

   Abstract : Overfishing is not an exclusive topic of big fishing industry. Overfishing by small-scale fishers is also happening. The Territorial Use of Rights – TURFs was implemented in Chile to protect the Chilean abalone from overfishing. Through the implementation of the TURFs Chilean abalone are no longer threatened by overfishing. READ MORE

6. 15. Biofuels Expansion and Their Differentiated Social-political Impacts in Developing Countries: A Comparative Account between Land Grabs and Social Sustainability in Honduras.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Mauricio Luna Galván; [2012]
   Keywords : biofuels; land grabbing; social sustainability; social-political conflicts; dispossession; neoliberalization; Honduras.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The present study is concerned with the expansion of biofuel production and two revealing and contrasting impacts caused in Honduras. The biofuels complex emerges as a sustainable alternative to cope with pressing problems related to climate change, energy insecurity and environmental degradation. READ MORE