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Title Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land / edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White.

Publication Info. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color).
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
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Series Development and change book series
Development and change (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Originally published as volume 44, issue 2 of Development and Change.
Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land / Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White -- State involvement, land grabbing and counter-insurgency in colombia / Jacobo Grajales -- Road mapping : megaprojects and land grabs in the northern guatemalan lowlands / Liza Grandia -- Land regularization in brazil and the global land grab / Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira -- Negotiating environmental sovereignty in costa rica / Dana J. Graef -- Building the politics machine : tools for "resolving" the global land grab / Michael B. Dwyer -- Indirect dispossession : domestic power imbalances and foreign access to land in mozambique / Madeleine Fairbairn -- Competition over authority and access : international land deals in madagascar / Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana -- Regimes of dispossession : from steel towns to special economic zones / Michael Levien -- The political construction of wasteland : governmentality, land acquisition and social inequality in south india / Jennifer Baka -- Chinese land-based interventions in senegal / Lila Buckley -- Identity, territory and land conflict in brazil / LaShandra Sullivan.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Land use -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries.
Eminent domain -- Developing countries.
Law and economic development.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wolford, Wendy.
Borras, Saturnino M.
Hall, Ruth (Professor)
Scoones, Ian.
White, Benjamin.
Other Form: Print version: Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 viii, 279 pages Development and change book series 9781118688267 (DLC) 2013017202
ISBN 9781118688267 (pbk.)
9781118688250 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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