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Book Development  Land use Change and Rural Resettlement Capacity

Download or read book Development Land use Change and Rural Resettlement Capacity written by Yan Tan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Rural China

Download or read book Transforming Rural China written by Guy M. Robinson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last four decades, China has witnessed dramatic economic growth, transforming into an economic powerhouse with considerable consequences for its rural regions. In this timely book, Guy M. Robinson adeptly navigates the principal elements, key events and significant changes of the transformation of China’s countryside.

Book Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project

Download or read book Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project written by Yan Tan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the factors influencing the sustainability of the Three Gorges rural resettlement, and the problems and coping strategies of the relocation programme implemented over the period 2000-04.

Book Climate and Human Migration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. McLeman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-12-23
  • ISBN : 1107653983
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Climate and Human Migration written by Robert A. McLeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration patterns and behavior, the potential outcomes are more complex than the environmental refugee scenario suggests. This book provides a comprehensive review of how physical and human processes interact to shape migration, using simple diagrams and models to guide the researcher, policy maker and advanced student through the climate-migration process. The book applies standard concepts and theories used in climate and migration scholarship to explain how events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Dust Bowl, African droughts, and floods in Bangladesh and China have triggered migrations that haven't always fit the environmental refugee storyline. Lessons from past migrations are used to predict how future migration patterns will unfold in the face of sea level rise, food insecurity, political instability, and to review options for policy makers.

Book Population  Migration and Settlement in Australia and the Asia Pacific

Download or read book Population Migration and Settlement in Australia and the Asia Pacific written by Natascha Klocker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book reflect on the work of seminal Australian geographer, the late Professor Graeme Hugo. Graeme Hugo was widely respected because of his impressive contributions to scholarship and policy in the fields of migration, population and development, which spanned several decades. This collection of works contains contributions from authors whose own research has been influenced by Hugo; and includes numerous authors who worked closely with Hugo throughout his career. The collection provides an opportunity to reflect on Hugo’s legacy, and also to foreground contemporary scholarship in his key areas of research focus. The chapters are organised into two thematic threads. Part I contains works relating to ‘Population, Migration and Settlement in Australia’, while Part II focuses on ‘Labour and Environmental Migration in the Asia-Pacific’. Together, these two thematic threads provide broad coverage of Graeme Hugo’s key areas of research focus. The chapters also serve as a reminder of Hugo’s steadfast concern with producing careful scholarship for the public good, and seek to prompt continued work in this vein. The chapters originally published in special issues in Australian Geographer.

Book Land Access and Resettlement

Download or read book Land Access and Resettlement written by Gerry Reddy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement. It provides step-by-step information on how to avoid pitfalls, ensure that best practice is being employed and the correct standards are being applied. With useful real-life examples of when projects have gone well and when they haven't, the book is based on the main lessons that have been learned on-the-ground over the past decade. Natural resource projects can have considerable impacts on local communities, chiefly due to the need to acquire large areas of land. When projects are located in developing and middle income economies, the impacts are most keenly felt, as it often requires displacement of large rural populations, with predominately land-based livelihoods. The authors have planned, implemented and reviewed over 50 land access and resettlement projects in over 30 countries internationally, and conducted benchmarking exercises on a further 60 projects. This experience provides the basis for the book. The book guides the reader through the different stages of preparing for a land resettlement project. Land Access and Resettlement is a key social risk for the natural resources sector, particularly the mining, oil and gas industries, who are operating in a context of increased awareness and regulation regarding the potential social impacts of their activities. At the same time, companies increasingly appreciate the business case for ‘getting social right’. This book provides a practical road map to corporate leaders, project managers, practitioners, academia, government and civil society for practically planning and implementing successful land access and resettlement, and creating win-win outcomes for companies and communities.

Book Rural Development Abstracts

Download or read book Rural Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Acquisition and Land Use Change

Download or read book Land Acquisition and Land Use Change written by Anurag Danda and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land acquisition is met with stiff resistance in most parts of the country, yet there are areas where the resistance will be far less or acquisition may be even welcome. These are the areas that typically see Environment-forced displacement. Development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) leading to impoverishment of the affected population is not uncommon, nor is it uncommon to find efforts to discourage populations from resettling in a destination of choice in the face of deteriorating environmental conditions at the place of origin. In a warmer world, resettlement in response to sea level rise would become virtually unavoidable where adaptive capacities are overwhelmed. This paper contends that land acquisition under such circumstances would enable the affected population to relocate and resettle avoiding impoverishment and displacement under high risk conditions at a later date, and therefore we are likely to witness the reverse hold-up problem in these areas which can only be addressed by the State. In other words, over time, as these areas become more vulnerable, the transaction value starts to decline; holding on to such land is no longer a worthwhile strategy. In order to achieve the goal of successful Environment-forced displacement and resettlement (EFDR), different policy agendas are needed which will be explored in this paper.

Book Land Tenure and Rural Development

Download or read book Land Tenure and Rural Development written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by FAO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.

Book Land Use Transitions Under Rapid Urbanization

Download or read book Land Use Transitions Under Rapid Urbanization written by Xiangbin Kong and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land use transition is the manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is also a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science (LSS). Land provides essential resources to society, and its changes have large consequences for the local and global environment and human well-being. The past, current, and projected state and dynamics of land use represent the major focus of land use science, which is influenced by long-term anthropogenic changes. The concept of land use transition highlights the fact that land use change demonstrates a non-linear process and is related to other societal and biophysical disturbances through a series of transitions. Land use transitions can be seen as the primary forces driving the transformation and development of the rural-urban territorial system and bringing about direct socioeconomic and environmental effects on regional sustainability. Land use transitions can be measured by changes in both the dominant morphology (e.g., quantity, structure, and spatial patterns) and the recessive morphology (e.g., quality, property rights, management mode, fixed input, productive ability, and function) of land use. The aim of this book was to detect or examine the processes, patterns, and socioeconomic and environmental effects of land use transitions and the mechanisms of human-land interactions against the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization from a wide range of perspectives, as well as the provision of solutions for sustainable land use based on scientific findings.

Book Rural Settlement and Land Use

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Chisholm
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 020236867X
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Rural Settlement and Land Use written by Michael Chisholm and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Access to Rural Land and Land Administration After Violent Conflicts

Download or read book Access to Rural Land and Land Administration After Violent Conflicts written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflicts typically result in the displacement of much of the population. At the end of the conflict there may be several competing, legitimate claims to the same land as a result of successive waves of displacement. This guide has been prepared to assist land tenure and land administration specialists who are involved with the reconstruction of systems of land tenure and land administration in countries that are emerging from violent conflict. The guide identifies key aspects that should be analyzed during initial assessments, and gives examples of short-term actions that may be implemented relatively quickly. It presents policy considerations for the restitution of land to rightful claimants and the resettlement of people who are landless or who cannot return to their home.

Book Resettlement  Induced Land Use Change and Its Impacts

Download or read book Resettlement Induced Land Use Change and Its Impacts written by Belay Haile and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As per the result of historical trend analysis, the high forest cover of the study area dwindled as a result of repeatedly implemented resettlement programs of the Derg and the current government (EPDRF) of Ethiopia. The overall 14% of forest land was cleared off to suit agricultural and settlement uses during the Derg regime alone so that these land uses had increased from 11% of the Imperial Regime to about 26% during the down fall of the Derg government. However, the current government resettlement schemes continuously launched to the study area along with the land grabbing by self-sponsored resettlers has increased the 26% agriculture and settlement land uses in to about 31% while the forest land declined by about 36% since 1991 onwards

Book Contemporary China   s Land Use Policy

Download or read book Contemporary China s Land Use Policy written by Long Cheng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses contemporary China’s land use policy – the Link Policy – which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development. Given the limited analyses and commentaries on the Link Policy in the literature, particularly in English-language articles, the book systematically presents and analyzes China’s land use policy by assessing the impacts of the Link Policy on rural life and how effective the Link Policy is in achieving its objectives. It also examines how satisfied farmers are with the policy and what the contributing factors are. Drawing on a critical review of the literature, field observations and interviews with resettled farmers, the book offers insights into China’s land use policy, and compares it with similar policy instruments in other countries. Presenting research findings that help readers gain a holistic understanding of the Link Policy in China and its implications, the book is a valuable resource for professionals in other developing countries that are facing similar challenges in terms of balancing urban development and farmland conservation.

Book Land Use Policies for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Land Use Policies for Sustainable Development written by Desmond McNeill and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need to enhance sustainable development in developing countries has never been greater: poverty levels are growing, land conversions are uncontrolled, and there is rapid loss of biodiversity through land use change. This timely book highlights the need for integrated assessment tools for developing countries, considering the long-term impacts of decisions taken today. The success of land use policies has in the past often been hampered by the fact that we simply do not know enough about their impact on sustainable development across developing countries. This book contributes to bridging this knowledge gap whilst facilitating the successful design and implementation of land use policies. The challenge of land use changes in response to changes in the policy environment – macro policy, agricultural and forest policy, environmental policy – is explored with a focus on the South. Detailed case studies encompassing seven countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America are presented via a common framework of analysis. In each case, sustainable development concerns are identified from environmental, economic and social perspectives. The interrelated causes of these problems are analysed by identifying key drivers and relevant land use policies, and the potential impact of prioritized land use policies are then discussed. This important book will prove invaluable to academics, researchers, postgraduate students and policy makers concerned with land-use planning, sustainable development and environmental studies.

Book Perspectives on Gender and Migration

Download or read book Perspectives on Gender and Migration written by and published by UN. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report contains discussion papers and the Outcome of the Regional Seminar on Strengthening the Capacity of National Machineries for Gender Equality to Shape Migration Policies and Protect Migrant Women. It covers issues with which national machineries for gender equality may wish to become actively involved. The publication includes the emerging social issue of migration of female professional workers between countries in the Pacific. It reviews the situation of migrants who are in much more vulnerable situations. One chapter reviews the situation of children and other family members who remain at home when a mother or father migrates.

Book China   s Poverty Alleviation Resettlement and Rural Transformation

Download or read book China s Poverty Alleviation Resettlement and Rural Transformation written by Long Cheng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China’s Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China’s rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc. Policy suggestions will also be provided to improve farmers’ sustainable livelihood and resilience coping with the changes of lifestyles due to the resettlement. This book contributes to inspiring and provoking thought among policymakers, researchers, and individuals worldwide grappling with the pressing issue of poverty and its eradication. Understanding the Chinese experience may yield valuable insights that can be adapted and applied in diverse contexts around the globe.