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Financing Cities [PDF]

The macro-economic and micro-economic evidences makes a persuasive case for cities as important centers for productive efficiency, innnovation, and economic growth.
Robert Inman
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Land governance arrangements in Tanzania: Actors, processes and instruments

International Review of Social Sciences Research
Land governance in most developing countries remains a big challenge because of many factors particularly those related to tenure systems and institutional frameworks.
Fredrick Bwire Magina, Hidaya Kayuza
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Theoretical basis of good land governance [PDF]

, 2017
The study aims to explore the land governance, or land management, in historical context with view to analyze the theoretical basis of land mana gement.
Jebaee, Muhamed
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Coupling response mechanisms of land use conflicts and ecosystem health using the GWRF-SHAP model: A structural and functional perspective

Ecological Informatics
Clarifying the coupled response relationship between land use conflicts (LUCs) and ecosystem health (EH) is crucial for regional ecological conservation and sustainable development.
Kun Li, Junsan Zhao, Guoping Chen, Yilin Lin   +3 more
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Securing property rights in transition: lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law [PDF]

This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal ...
Deininger, Klaus, Jin, Songqing
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Societal Change, States and Governance: Insights from History and other Societies [PDF]

The nature of governance has differed widely across societies, and what is more interesting, within any particular society depending upon the stage of development. Governance is better defined in functional rather than in value terms.
Morris, Sebastian
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), Transnational Conservation and Access to Land in Jambi, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2013
Indonesia is engaging in the UN-backed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme (REDD+) to reduce its land-use-based greenhouse gas emissions.
Hein, Jonas
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How Does China’s Agricultural Subsidy Policy Drive More Commercially Productive Small Farmers? The Role of Farmland Scale, Labor Supply, and Cropping Structural Change

Land
This study investigated the impact of China’s agricultural subsidy policy on farmers’ commercial production, indicated by sales market participation. A nationally representative survey data, panel Tobit model, IV Tobit model, and the Correlated Random ...
Jian Zhang, Awais Jabbar, Xin Li
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Status and Potential of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
This publication highlights the interconnectivity and linkages between coastal ecosystems (mangroves, coral reefs, seagrasses, estuaries, and lagoons) across environ-mental, economic, social, and management contexts.
Francine Kershaw, Silvia Silvestri
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Land leasing and land sale as an infrastructure-financing option [PDF]

Municipal land sales provide one option for financing urban infrastructure investment. In countries where land is owned by the public sector, land is by far the most valuable asset on the municipal balance sheet.
Peterson, George E.
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