"Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an uneasy co-existence. Presenting material from various Asian and Latin America…
Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa
The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quit…
Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa
Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa
Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa
The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quit…
Land use changes in comparative perspective
Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging under the dynamics of globalisation. Combining landscape ecological research and an …
Globalisation and agricultural landscapes: change patterns and policy trends in developed co…
by Primdahl, Jørgen, Swaffield, Simon, Symposium Globalisation and the Sustainability of Agricultural Landscape Systems, Wageningen, World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), Wageningen)
fromCambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described mor…
