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  1. Library Resource
    Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2014
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the devastating effect the conflict has had on public health, and its impact on Sri Lanka’s health system - hailed as a success story in the South Asian region. Remarkably, no attempt has been made to synthesize the findings of such studies in order to build an evidence-informed research platform. This review aims to map the ‘research landscape’ on the impact of conflict on health in Sri Lanka.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014

    Ideally, poverty indicators improve because poor people’s livelihoods are improved. They can, however, also improve
    because poor people are expelled from the territory. This article explores the case of the cattle region of Chontales, Nicaragua, which
    during 1998–2005 experienced economic growth and declining poverty rates, spurred by investments and organizational development.
    The article argues that in the absence of pro-poor coalitions, these investments facilitated the return and strengthening of the local elite

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014

    This article summarizes the results of a research program conducted in 11 Latin America countries, addressing two
    questions: (1) what factors determine territorial development dynamics that lead to economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved
    income distribution? (2) What can be done to stimulate this kind of territorial dynamics? We highlight five “bundles of factors” that we
    found in 19 case studies of territorial development 1, as well as the role of social territorial coalitions that appear to be necessary for

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    Nicaragua

    Natural resources constitute an important axis around which rural territorial dynamics revolve. Based on empirical
    registration of how applications for and denouncements of natural resource use are dealt with in two Nicaraguan rural territories, this
    paper examines the importance of inequality for the institutional practices through which district-level governance of natural resource
    use takes place. Notable differences are identified. The paper concludes that institutional practices which promote rule-based natural

  5. Library Resource
    Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo
    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2014
    Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia

    The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s. There is no island-wide documentation of forest clearance or logging since the 1970s. This creates an information gap for conservation planning, especially with regard to selectively logged forests that maintain high conservation potential. Analysing LANDSAT images, we estimate that 75.7% (558,060 km2) of Borneo’s area (737,188 km2) was forested around 1973.

  6. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 38

    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2014
    Peru

    Policy makers concerned with the peri-urban interface find their greatest challenges in the rapid urban growth of developing mountain regions, since limitations caused by relief and altitude often lead to an increased competition between rural and urban land use at the valley floors. In this context, little attention has been paid to the affected agriculturalists’ perceptions of peri-urban growth—important information required for the realization of sustainable land use planning. How is the process of rural–urban land change perceived and assessed by peri-urban smallholder communities?

  7. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 41

    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2014
    Malawi, Norway, United States of America

    Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and landholding patterns of local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.

  8. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 38

    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2014
    Eastern Africa

    Pervasive food insecurity and poverty in much of the world drives vulnerable populations to harvest natural resources as a means of generating income and meeting other household needs. Wild edible plants (WEPs) are a particularly common and effective coping strategy used to increase socio-ecological resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa where agricultural systems are often sensitive to environmental perturbations and instability. WEPs are collected across the landscape, from agricultural areas to government-managed hilltops with varying degrees of success and legality.

  9. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 38

    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2014
    Nigeria

    Nigeria's once thriving plantation economy has suffered under decades of state neglect and political and civil turmoil. Since Nigeria's return to civilian rule in 1999, in a bid to modernize its ailing agricultural economy, most of its defunct plantations were privatized and large new areas of land were allocated to ‘high-capacity’ agricultural investors.

  10. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 42

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2015
    Australia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America

    Based on a multilevel and quantile hedonic analysis regarding the local public bus system and the prices of residential properties in Cardiff, Wales, we find strong evidence to support two research hypotheses: (a) the number of bus stops within walking distance (300–1500m) to a property is positively associated with the property's observed sale price, and (b) properties of higher market prices, compared with their cheaper counterparts, tend to benefit more from spatial proximity to the bus stop locations.

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