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Pancasila and Law Review, 2023 In cases of land grabbing, the overlap between civil and criminal law has created pre-judicial problems. This has resulted in the discourse of justice among those who anticipate law enforcement through criminal proceedings to be insecure.
Dhinda Ratri Putristira
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Rethinking land grabbing: a focus on land Pawning in rural Malawi
Cogent Social SciencesLand pawning, is a relatively understudied practice in Malawi’s agrarian landscape and broader land scholarship. Our research contextualizes this practice within debates of domestic and global land grabbing.
Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi +1 more
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LAND GRABBING E CRISE DO CAPITAL: POSSÍVEIS INTERSEÇÕES DOS DEBATES
Revista Geographia, 2017 O artigo aqui apresentado pretendeu realizar uma apreciação tanto do fenômeno recente denominado por land grabbing, comumente traduzido por “apropriação de terras”, bem como das diferentes formulações teóricas acerca do mesmo. Podemos sugerir que após as
Cássio Arruda Boechat +2 more
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Land grabbing for oil palm: resistance and the fate of peasants in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Ambiente & SociedadeThe paper analyzes land grabbing, the processes of resistance, and the fates of peasants who sold their land as a result of the expansion of oil palm cultivation in the Northeast of the state of Pará (NEP). This is a qualitative study. 21 semi-structured
Éberton da Costa Moreira +1 more
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
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Implications of Land-Grabbing on the Ecological Balance of Brazil
Resources, 2018 In the global free-market, natural resource scarcity and opportunities for preserving the local environment are fostering international purchasing of large extensions of land, mainly for agricultural use.
Luca Coscieme +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter +4 more
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Corporate crime in expropriating land rights through intimidation and criminalization
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Corporations or business actors have an important role in increasing economic development, but in practice these corporations or business actors often commit business crimes that harm the community by means of intimidation and criminalization to seize ...
Dwidja Priyatno +2 more
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Corporate Political Ideology and Environmental Strategy: Evidence From US Toxic Releases
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate political ideology shapes firms' environmental strategy and realized environmental performance. Using US political donation data matched to facility‐level toxic releases from the Toxics Release Inventory from 2000 to 2014, we measure corporate ideology by the share of firm and PAC contributions directed to
Mingyuan Chen +3 more
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