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Local communities face to land expropriation and evictions in the era of major structural projects and territorial regulation in Southern Cameroon: An analysis of the outlines of a controversial phenomenon

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
Both land expropriation and eviction constitute a threat to the properties and life of local communities. In Southern Cameroon, the phenomenon has increased with the implementation of structural projects to ensure the emergence of Cameroon by 2035 and ...
Fabrice Mopi Touoyem, Marlise Sandrine Kouna Binele   +1 more
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Fair and Equitable Land Access (FELA) by Development Projects: Enhancing Governance for Sustainable Development Outcomes When Projects Displace People

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth, Susanna Price, Frank Vanclay   +2 more
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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Public Parks and Expropriation of Land

Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architects, 1986
公園に対する土地収用法の適用は明治25年に始まるその後、 明治33年の上地収用法改正によって公園拡張、 新設の適用事例が増加する大正8年には都市計画法か公布され、 都市計画公園事業のなかて収用法か適用される. 特に関東大震災後の復興公園には多く見られるさらに、 日華事変の勃発とともに、 防空緑地として公園、 緑地の建設のため収用法の適用か増える本稿てはいくつかの事例に沿いその収用法適用の背景を考察する.
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At the Intersection between Expropriation Law and Administrative Law: Two Critical Views on the Constitutional Court's Arun Judgment

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016
In Arun the Constitutional Court held that section 28 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance (LUPO) vests all land indicated as public roads on a development plan in the local authority upon approval of such a plan.
Ernst Jacobus Marais, Petrus Jacobus Hermanus Maree   +1 more
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The Valuation of Land in Land Consolidation and Relevant Administrative Procedures in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic

Administrative Sciences, 2022
This scientific study focuses on the assessment of the legislation on land valuation, which takes place in the framework of selected administrative procedures in the Slovak Republic.
Tomáš Peráček, Mária Srebalová, Andrej Srebala   +2 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Land expropriation in urbanizing China: an examination of negotiations and compensation [PDF]

Urban Geography, 2016
ABSTRACTA driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization.
Swider, S, Wang, H, Zhu, P, Chen, X
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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