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Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
wiley   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

VALORISATION OF COMO HISTORICAL CADASTRAL MAPS THROUGH MODERN WEB GEOSERVICES [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
Cartographic cultural heritage preserved in worldwide archives is often stored in the original paper version only, thus restricting both the chances of utilization and the range of possible users. The Web C.A.R.T.E.
M. A. Brovelli, M. Minghini, G. Zamboni
doaj   +1 more source

Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

The Long Arc of Forest Land Dispossession and Degradation—Firm and State Actions on Sámi Lands in the Wood‐Based Commodity Frontier in Northern Sweden, 1673–1955

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
wiley   +1 more source

International Archves Day

open access: yesKartografija i Geoinformacije, 2017
-200 years of the Cadastral Survey under Emperor Franz I: Exhibition in the Croatian State Archive in Zagreb -200 years of the Cadastral Survey under Emperor Franz I: Exhibition at the Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb -From Pen to Satellite ...
Mirjana Jurić   +8 more
doaj  

Towards periodic and time-referenced flood risk assessment using airborne remote sensing

open access: yesJournal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2016
Flood risk management is founded on the regular assessment of damage potential. A significant parameter for assessing damage potential is the number of at-risk objects.
Brenner Claire   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Integration Backfires: Examining the Effects of Mandatory Inter‐Municipal Cooperation on Local Housing Markets

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates the causal effect of mandatory inter‐municipal cooperation on local service provision and housing markets. I examine Italy's 2010 reform, which required small municipalities to jointly manage core administrative functions, and identify its impact using a fuzzy difference‐in‐discontinuity design.
Alessandro Sovera
wiley   +1 more source

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE DURABLE CONSTRUCTION OF URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS [PDF]

open access: yes
The idea of basis is the present condition and developing trend of cadastral management Valcea. The paper expatiates on the construction status of the Cadastral Management Information System on Integration of Urban and Rural area of Valcea.
Carmen RADUT
core  

Analysis of land use changes based on Austrian cadastre maps: A case study, Pisarzowa, Lesser Poland Voivodeship [PDF]

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Formatio Circumiectus
Aim of the study: The purpose of this work is to analyze the changes in land use that have occurred in a selected area from 1846 to 2022. The analysis was conducted on the basis of Austrian cadastral maps and the current cadastral map.
Maria Pazdan
doaj   +1 more source

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