Land Use category: 92 books
by Judith Bray
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Unlocking Land Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an excellent foundation for learning and revising land law.
The information is clearly presented in a logical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Several studies have investigated the impetus and implications behind large-scale land acquisitions/deals at the global level; however, intranational factors within communities and societies have not received much attention from researchers. The Handbook of Research on In-Country Determinants and Implications...
This Sovereign Land
A New Vision For Governing The West
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In This Sovereign Land, Daniel Kemmis offers a radical new proposal for giving the West control over its land. Unlike those who wish to privatize the public lands and let market forces decide their fate, Kemmis, a leading western Democrat and committed environmentalist, argues for keeping the public...
Lawscape
Property, Environment, Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, Lawscape engages the abstract philosophy of property law with the material...
Suffering for Territory
Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Landmark Cases in Land Law is the sixth volume in the Landmark Cases series of collected essays on leading cases (previous volumes in the series having covered Restitution, Contract, Tort, Equity and Family Law). The eleven cases in this volume cover the period 1834 to 2011, although, interestingly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world. This book explores international examples of the property rights tensions involved in attempting to develop denser, more sustainable cities through compulsory acquisition of property. The case studies...
by Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points...
NAMA-Land
The Inside Story of Ireland’s Property Sell-off and The Creation of a New Elite
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland’s property crisis. Its job as Ireland’s ‘bad bank’ was to act impartially to get the maximum return from the sale of assets for the Irish people and help pay down the state’s massive...
Recognizing Aboriginal Title
The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius – a land of no one – when the white man arrived. The proceedings were known as the Mabo Case, named for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the...
by Yasmin Bahari
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book was prepared to assist readers to understand cases in land law. The bulk of case laws in Malaysia are in English, therefore a good command of the English language is vital in order to understand the case laws. To facilitate readers, after each paragraph, the meanings of underlined words...
Cities in the Wilderness
A New Vision of Land Use in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007
In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Se
by Cameron Blackhall
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The law relating to town and country planning has a major impact upon the physical environment and affects private citizens, landowners and developers alike. This third edition is a comprehensive text for students, practitioners and members of the general public on this difficult area of law.
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Let the People Judge
Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
"One of the mserious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independmovemof small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations...