Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia
Subtitle: Exploring the Limits of Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781107066823
Subjects: Land tenure, law and legislation; Land tenure, asia; Land use, law and legislation; Land use, asia; Land reform, law and legislation; Eminent domain
Description: "Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal failure that this book brings together leading scholars to understand how state agencies, land users and land developers imaginatively engage with each other to resolve disputes. Drawing on empirically rich case studies, contributors explore the limits of law and legal institutions in resolving land disputes and reveal insights into how key actors in East Asia understand land disputes. Their studies reveal promising dispute resolution practices and point to the likely ways that states will deal with land disputes in the future"--

"Land disputes are increasing in East Asia as economic and demographic growth intensifies the demand for farmland and urban spaces. Nowhere is this more evident than in China and Vietnam. Reforms that brought Socialist Asia into the globalized economy and returned private"--