Land Use category: 92 books
Land Use and Society, Third Edition
Geography, Law, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The intersection between geography and law is a critical yet often overlooked elemof land-use decisions, with a widespread impact on how societies use the land, water, and biodiversity around them. Land Use and Society, Third Edition is a clear and compelling guide to the role of law in shaping patterns...
Land Use Regulation
A Legal Analysis and Practical Application of Land Use Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Written by specialists in the field, Land Use Regulation provides real estate specialists, general practitioners, and planning officials with a convenient and practical resource for handling typical land use problems. It is written from the perspective of the administrative process that most often...
Land Use and Society, Revised Edition
Geography, Law, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains...
Land Law
A Problem-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Problem-Based Learning is a way of learning that presents a practical problem scenario in the context of which learning is conducted. Normally students are taught law through the transmission of information about legal principles and not presented with problems until they have accumulated enough information...
by Daniel P. Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Litigating Religious Land Use Cases, Second Edition is a thorough, detailed treatise that explains how to manage complex religious land use cases book in a manner that is easily understood. Although the subject-matter is complex, the author, Daniel P. Dalton, the authority on land use issues, took...
Local Government, Land Use, and the First Amendment
Protecting Free Speech and Expression
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This book is an re-mastered, retooled version of the ABA publication "Protecting Free Speech and Expression: The First Amendment and Land Use Law" which was published by the ABA. The book contains some theoretical discussion of First Amendment law as it pertains to land use issues (e.g....
by Ronald S. Cope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book will help the busy general practitioner answer the most frequently asked questions and provide guidance on basic zoning procedures, property rights, and the nature of zoning litigation. In addition, this handbook provides an introduction to zoning law for land use practitioners, and will be helpful to laypersons and professionals not familiar with land use or zoning law.
Property Rights and Climate Change
Land use under changing environmental conditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens...
Southern African Development Community Land Issues
Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. In this volume, Ben Chigara undertakes a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary society has impacted on indigenous institutions and...
by van den Brink Rogier; DeGroot Dave; Marrengane Ntombini; Berrisford Stephen; Kihato Michael; Mhlanga Zimkhitha
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
This study outlines the difficulties poor communities face in accessing peri-urban land in South Africa that could have implications and lessons for similar communities in other countries facing spatialsegregation issues. The study focused on one community, composed largely of laid-off farm workers that...
Seaside Dream Home Besieged
Scenic Preservation Mandates and Property Rights in Collision, a Case History, and Proposed Land-Use Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Captivated by the spectacular natural beauty of northern Californias Mendocino coast, the author and his wife, Margie, residents of Virginia, purchase a magnificent eleven-acre promontory high above the Pacific Ocean near the remote village of Elk. On retiring years later, they decide to build their...
Advocates for the Oppressed
Hispanos, Indians, Genízaros, and Their Land in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico’s long history. The outcome of such disputes, especially in colonial times, often depended on which party had a strong advocate to argue a case before a local tribunal or on appeal. This book is partly about the advocates who represented...
Land Law and Urban Policy in Context
Essays on the Contributions of Patrick McAuslan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan. It is a collection that narrates, analyses and critiques McAuslan’s contributions, as well as offering substantive perspectives on how his work has impacted the legal fields in which...