Large-Scale Land Acquisitions : : Focus on South-East Asia / / edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli.
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. Thi...
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Superior document: | International Development Policy Series ; Volume 6 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2016. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | First edition. |
Language: | English |
Series: | International development policy ;
Volume 6. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 300 pages) :; illustrations, maps; digital file(s). |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material -- 1 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Historical Perspective / 2 States as Actors in International Agro-Investments / 3 The Role of Property Rights in the Debate on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions / 4 The Impact of Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments on Communities in South-East Asia: A First Assessment / 5 Sweet and Bitter: Trajectories of Sugar Cane Investments in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, and Aceh, Indonesia, 2006–13 / 6 Marginal Land or Marginal People? Analysing Patterns and Processes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in South-East Asia / 7 From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions / 8 ‘Better-Practice’ Concessions? Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard-Skin Landscape / 9 Identifying and Monitoring Human Rights Violations Associated with Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Focus on United Nations Mechanisms and South-East Asia / 10 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet? / 11 Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East Asia / Index. |
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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. This book focuses 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004304754 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli. |