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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 Cameroon is currently witnessing an unprecedented wave of land-based investments, ranging from natural resources exploitation (oil, mining and gas), logging, large infrastructure building, etc. These developments happen in a context of population growth,
Samuel A. Nguiffo
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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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U.S. Expropriates Tribal Lands Legally
Fourth World Journal, 1989 In the summer of 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pivotal ruling affecting the zoning powers of the Yakima Indian Nation, permitting state and county governments to override tribal zoning authority in areas predominantly owned by non-Indians. This decision reflects the broader historical trajectory of U.S.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis +2 more
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Aestimum, 2013 The alterations caused by the realization of large scale, linear infra-structure have repercussions that similarly disrupt the land market. The market is still not perfect and has all the inherent problems connected to estimation of the compensation due ...
Marcellina Bertolinelli +3 more
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Land, 2020 In Ethiopia, urban expansion happens at high rates and results in land expropriations often at the cost of agriculture and forests. The process of urban expansion does not include assessment of ecosystem services (ES).
Wubante Fetene Admasu +5 more
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Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
, 2011 This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest ...
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine +4 more
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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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Expropriation, Valuation and Compensation of Unregistered Communal Peri-Urban Land in Zimbabwe
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and background Over the years there has been an increase in studies on expropriation and compensation in Zimbabwe. However, there are limited studies on expropriation and compensation for peri-urban communal land.
Partson Paradza
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When does State Interference with Property (now) Amount to Expropriation? An Analysis of the Agri SA Court's State Acquisition Requirement (Part I) [PDF]
Potchefstroom 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
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