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Towards Responsible Mining in Africa: Problematising the Environmental and Public Health Concerns of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been emerging media reports on the impact of cyanide and mercury use in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) operations on community health, especially among pregnant and non‐pregnant women, ASGM miners, and children in rural Africa.
Francis Arthur‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Native Customary Land Tenure in Sarawak

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005
Contrary to commonly accepted principles of civil society and the ideology of self-determination and governance, the socio-cultural and psychological spaces, territory, boundaries, sovereignty, and customary rights to land resources of the indigenous peoples in Sarawak were not selfdetermined, but were defined during the course of the last century and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Who owns the land?: Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for land acquisitions [PDF]

open access: yes
Rapid growth of demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access.
Bomuhangi, Allan   +2 more
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Policy and Practice ; Advancing Justice in Community Land Use Planning in Kenya

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background  Community land rights in Kenya have endured historical and contemporary pressures since the colonial period. The imposition of English statutory tenure systems alongside African customary tenure established a dualistic ...
Mwenda, Robert Kibugi
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Land Property Rights Interventions on Investment and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries: a Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines the effect of interventions to strengthen land property rights on outcomes such as investment, agricultural productivity and farmer incomes in rural areas in low and middle‐income countries.
Steven Lawry   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Customary system as ‘constraint’ or ‘enabler’ to peri-urban land development: Case of Kisumu city, Kenya

open access: yesTown and Regional Planning, 2019
Scholarly research on land delivery processes and land tenure dynamics in the context of accelerated urbanization and massive rural-urban land use conversion in sub-Saharan African cities remains limited, especially in Kenya.
Edwin Wamukaya , Musyimi Mbathi
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

Access to land and land tenure security in a context of population displacement in the Kalehe territory, South Kivu

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
IntroductionForced displacement in Kalehe Territory (South Kivu, DR Congo), driven by armed conflicts, floods, landslides, and climate change, severely disrupts land access and tenure security.
Chavez Cikuru Kamera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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