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Influencing Factors Analysis on Land-Lost Farmers’ Happiness Based on the Rough DEMATEL Method

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2020
In this paper, fifteen indicators from four dimensions are selected to construct an evaluation system for the happiness of land-lost farmers. The factors affecting the happiness of land-lost farmers are analyzed using the rough DEMATEL method.
Lixia Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When does State Interference with Property (now) Amount to Expropriation? An Analysis of the Agri SA Court's State Acquisition Requirement (Part II) [PDF]

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2015
Section 25 of the Constitution provides two ways in which the state may interfere with property rights, namely deprivation (section 25(1)) and expropriation (section 25(2)).
Ernst Jacobus Marais
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An economy-wide impact assessment of agriculture land reform in South Africa

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
South Africa has been battling with getting land reform right since the advent of democratic rule in 1994 The need to expedite land reform in the country has given rise to a number of radical approaches, including the topic and controversial ...
Thulasizwe Mkhabela   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Collective Land Expropriation in China: Historical Evolution, Institutional Attributes, and Reform Pathways

open access: yesLand
Land expropriation remains an important instrument for industrialization and urbanization in developing countries, but its extensive use often generates fiscal dependence, social conflict, and governance strain.
Ziyan Hua, Yansong He
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing Policy (In)coherence in Germany's Energy Transition and Impacts on (In)equality

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and ...
Alexia Faus Onbargi, Ines Dombrowsky
wiley   +1 more source

Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
wiley   +1 more source

Land (and settlement) reform post-expropriation: Shifting the focus to the ‘Sustainable Human Settlement Development’ imperative

open access: yesTown and Regional Planning, 2019
Land reform in South Africa has paid less attention to the creation of fair and viable postapartheid urban human settlements than it has to rural land reform.
Mark Oranje , Jeannie van Wyk
doaj   +1 more source

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