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Web of Power in the Struggle for Access Rights to Forest Resources: Comparative Case Studies in Conservation and Industrial Forests. [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Res
Rahmawati R   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938)

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This study examines The Forests of Joseon (1938), a forestry survey compiled by Tokumitsu Nobuyuki under Japanese colonial rule, as a key site of epistemic negotiation between imperial forestry science and Korean indigenous knowledge. Focusing on bíbo forests—geomantic forests believed to regulate energy flow between mountains and villages—the paper ...
Soyeong Park, Jeong‐Hann Pae
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes
While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts.
Deininger, Klaus, Castagnini, Raffaella
core  

Protection of Customary Land Rights in Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes
This study aimed at examining the protection of customary land rights in Tanzania. Despite the Constitutional and legislative guarantee on the recognition and protection of the customary land rights in Tanzania, customary land tenure suffers from ...
Happe, Zena M.
core   +1 more source

Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
wiley   +1 more source

Customary Land Conversion in African Cities

open access: yes, 2023
We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways.
openaire   +1 more source

Ant Diversity of the Xisha Islands: Community Structure, Exotic Species Colonization, and Ecological Functions in a Tropical Coral Archipelago

open access: yesBiological Diversity, EarlyView.
The first inventory of ants from the Xisha Islands of the South China Sea was compiled, revealing 21 species: 70% native and 30% exotic. Anthropogenic disturbance primarily drove exotic colonization, whereas island area showed weak positive effects on species richness. Most ants were omnivorous, with key mutualistic and seed‐dispersal roles.
Hua‐Yan Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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