Governing global land deals
Subtitle: the role of the state in the rush for land
By: edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781118688267
Subjects: Land use; Law and legislation; Eminent domain; Law and economic development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Originally published as volume 44, issue 2 of Development and Change.; title: Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land / Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White; title: State involvement, land grabbing and counter-insurgency in colombia / Jacobo Grajales; title: Road mapping : megaprojects and land grabs in the northern guatemalan lowlands / Liza Grandia; title: Land regularization in Brazil and the global land grab / Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira; title: Negotiating environmental sovereignty in Costa Rica / Dana J. Graef; title: Building the politics machine : tools for "resolving" the global land grab / Michael B. Dwyer; title: Indirect dispossession : domestic power imbalances and foreign access to land in Mozambique / Madeleine Fairbairn; title: Competition over authority and access : international land deals in Madagascar / Perrine Burnod, Mathilde Gingembre and Rivo Andrianirina Ratsialonana; title: Regimes of dispossession : from steel towns to special economic zones / Michael Levien; title: The political construction of wasteland : governmentality, land acquisition and social inequality in South India / Jennifer Baka; title: Chinese land-based interventions in Senegal / Lila Buckley; title: Identity, territory and land conflict in Brazil / LaShandra Sullivan.