For more than a century the creation of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. Parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecos…
Monograph on relationships between the agrarian structure and underdevelopment in Pakistan - investigates slow agricultural development, trends (1960-1980), failure of land reforms to alter concentration of land ownership and to reduce landlessness, and production function of ag…
Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so comple…