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   Law, Property and Disasters

   Adaptive Perspectives from the Global South

   Journal Articles & Books

   May, 2021

   Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Global

   land titling

   land use mapping

   land law

   property law

   land-use planning

   natural disasters

   slums

   land use

   informal settlements

   community land rights

   property

   local communities

   This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

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   ‘Civilizing’ the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia

   Journal Articles & Books

   January, 2018

   Ethiopia

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   development

   pastoral lands

   natural resources

   land rights

   eviction

   pastoralists

   This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia’s pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the ‘civilizing’ impetus of ‘improvement schemes’ for ‘backward’ pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated by corporate investors.

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   Spatial Urban Expansion and Land Tenure Security in Ethiopia: Case Studies from Bahir Dar and Debre Markos Peri-Urban Areas

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2016

   Ethiopia

   Urban Tenure

   urbanization

   farmers

   rural areas

   land tenure

   This study analyzes urban expansion and the peri-urban land tenure security situation in Amhara National Regional State of Ethiopia, taking Bahir Dar and Debre Markos as case studies. To detect the extent of urban expansion, data from Landsat satellite images were analyzed using ERDAS IMAGINE, ENVI, and ArcGIS segmentation, classification, and mapping tools. The land tenure security situation was assessed through interviews with local farmers.

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   politics of water in rural China: a review of English-language scholarship

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2013

   China

   water rights

   farmland

   rural areas

   Politics is about access and power, and access to freshwater resources in rural China is complicated and understudied. China's massive size and diverse climate make it hard to generalize about freshwater resources in rural areas of the country. On balance, China is not water-scarce, yet geographic and temporal variations in water availability are dramatic, with China's driest areas receiving far less precipitation than the wettest areas. Rural areas are the locus of competition among freshwater users including agriculture, power companies, industry, households and ecosystems.