Large-scale land acquisitions : focus on South-East Asia /

Large-scale land acquisitions, or 'land grabbing', has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term 'land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods a...

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Gironde, Christophe (Editor), Golay, Christophe (Editor), Messerli, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2016]
Series:International development policy ; v. 6.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Large-scale land acquisitions, or 'land grabbing', has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term 'land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. In this book focusing on South-East Asia, a series of thematic and in-depth case studies put 'land grabbing' into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004304758
9004304754
ISSN:1663-9383 ;