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• Introduction
• A special and finite commodity: why land and landownership matter
• Landownership in Britain: a brief history
• Discourses of surplus and efficiency: preparing the land for sale
• Carrots and sticks: privatizing the land
• False promises: land privatization outcomes
• Conclusion: where now?

Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the public eye, about 10 per cent of the entire British land mass, including some of its most valuable real estate, has passed from public to private hands. Forest land, defence land, health service land and above all else local authority land for farming and school sports, for recreation and housing has been sold off en masse. Why? How? And with what social, economic and political consequences? The New Enclosure provides the first ever study of this profoundly significant phenomenon, situating it as a centrepiece of neoliberalism in Britain and as a successor programme to the original eighteenth-century enclosures. With more public land still slated for disposal, the book identifies the stakes and asks what, if anything, can and should be done.
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• The right to roam
• The closing of America
• A brief history of trespassing
• An abbreviated journey across Europe
• The land Americans once roamed
• Why we need a right to roam
• The arguments against roaming
• A right to roam how do we get there?
• This land is our land.

Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside. Hometown: Hamilton, ON.

Increased global demand for land posits the need for well-designed country-level land policies to protect long-held rights, facilitate land access and address any constraints that land policy may pose for broader growth. While the implementation of land reforms can be a lengthy process, the need to swiftly identify key land policy challenges and devise responses that allow the monitoring of progress, in a way that minimizes conflicts and supports broader development goals, is clear. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) makes a substantive contribution to the land sector by providing a quick and innovative tool to monitor land governance at the country level. The LGAF offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool that covers five main areas for policy intervention: Legal and institutional framework; Land use planning, management and taxation; Management of public land; Public provision of land information; and Dispute resolution and conflict management. The LGAF assesses these areas through a set of detailed indicators that are rated on a scale of pre-coded statements (from lack of good governance to good practice). While land governance can be highly technical in nature and tends to be addressed in a partial and sporadic manner, the LGAF posits a tool for a comprehensive assessment, taking into account the broad range of issues that land governance encompasses, while enabling those unfamiliar with land to grasp its full complexity. The LGAF will make it possible for policymakers to make sense of the technical levels of the land sector, benchmark governance, identify areas that require further attention and monitor progress. It is intended to assist countries in prioritizing reforms in the land sector by providing a holistic diagnostic review that can inform policy dialogue in a clear and targeted manner. In addition to presenting the LGAF tool, this book includes detailed case studies on its implementation in five selected countries: Peru, the Kyrgyz Republic, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Tanzania.
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• Introduction : a sustainable future for communal lands, resources and communities / Lee Godden and Maureen Tehan
• Managing social tenures / Jude Wallace
• Social justice, communal lands and sustainable communities / Tom Calma
• The estate as duration : "being in place" and aboriginal property relations in areas of Cape York Peninsula in North Australia / Marcia Langton
• You can't always get what you want : economic development on indigenous individual and collective titles in North America : which land tenure models ar relevant to Australia? / Margaret Stephenson
• Individualization : an idea whose time came, and went : the New Zealand experience / Richard Boast
• One step forward, two steps back : Peru's approach to indigenous land and resources and the law / Lila Barrera-Hernández
• Lessons from the Cape : beyond South Africa's transformation act / Juanita M Pienaar
• Beyond "Richtersveld" : the judicial take on restitution of communal land rights in South Africa / Hanri Mostert
• Land, environmental management and the new governance in Burkina Faso / Simon Batterbury
• Management of customary land as a form of communal property in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji / Joseph D. Foukona
• The act that almost was : the Fijian Qoliqoli Bill 2006 / Shaunnagh Dorsett
• Spatial technologies, mapping and the native title process / Peter Bowen
• Discrimination as a cause of poverty in Aboriginal communities : measuring implementation of the right to non-discriminatory and equitable access to health care services of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / Clancy Kelly
• Customary land tenure, communal titles and sustainability : the allure of individual title and property rights in Australia / Maureen Tehan
• Communal governance of land and resources as a sustainable institution / Lee Godden.

Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures addresses property and land title as central mechanisms governing access to communally-held land and resources. The collection assesses the effectiveness of property law and tenure models developed around concepts of individual ownership, for achieving long-term environmental and economic sustainability for indigenous peoples and local communities. It explores the momentum for change in the international realm, and then develops a comparative focus across Australia, North America, Africa, Peru, New Zealand and the Pacific region, examining the historical and current impacts of individuation of title on the customary law and practice of indigenous peoples and local communities. Themes of property, privatisation and sustainable communities are developed in theoretical analyses and case studies from these jurisdictions. The case studies throw into sharp relief how questions of land law and resources management should not be separated from wider issues about the long-term viability of communities. Comparative analysis allows consideration of how western models of land tenure and land title might better accommodate the exercise of traditional practices of indigenous peoples and local communities, while still promoting autonomy, choice and economic development. This volume will be of interest to scholars and professionals working in the fields of property law, land reform, policy and planning, indigenous law and customary law, environmental sustainability, development and resource management.
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• 1. Droits fonciers coutumiers. Acquisitions des parcelles de terrain
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• 2. L'immatriculation des parcelles de terrain
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• 3. Les parcelles de terrain de l'espace foncier de l'Etat, des collectivités décentralisées et des établissements publics.

• Table of Contents: public laws by tabbed section. Treaty with Russia, March 30, 1867
• Native Allotment Act, May 17, 1906 and amendment 931, August 2, 1956
• Chugach Proclamations, July 23, 1907 and February 23, 1909
• Tongass Proclamations, September 10, 1907 and February 16, 1909
• Alaska Statehood Act, July 7, 1958
• Alaska Omnibus Act (Roads), June 25, 1959
• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), Dec. 18, 1971
• ANCSA Amendments (Escrow), January 2, 1976
• ANCSA Amendments (Klukwan), October 4, 1976
• ANCSA Amendment (Saxman/Yakutat Withdrawal), November 15, 1977
• Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), December 2, 1980
• ANILCA Amendment (Admiralty Island), January 9, 1986
• Haida Land Exchange Act of 1986, November 17, 1986
• ANCSA Amendments of 1987, February 3, 1988
• ANILCA Amendment (Submerged Lands), August 16 1988
• Admiralty Island National Monument Land Management Act of 1990, August 17, 1990
• Tongass Timber Reform Act, November 28, 1990
• Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992, October 14, 1992
• ANCSA Amendments (Mining Claims/Hazardous Substances), November 2, 1995
• Greens Creek Land Exchange Act of 1995, April 1, 1996
• ANCSA Amendment (Native Veterans Allotment), October 21, 1998
• ANCSA Land Bank Protection Act of 1998, October 31, 1998
• Kake Tribal Corporation Land Transfer Act, October 6, 2000
• Russian River Land Act, December 19, 2002
• Craig Recreational Land Purchase Act, October 13, 2004
• Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act, December 10, 2004
• Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Reciprocal Rights-of-way), August 10, 2005
• Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Coffman Cove), March 30, 2009
• Alaska Native Consultation
• Lighthouse Transfer Legislation.

• Contents: Introduction: the French Revolution, the peasantry and village common land-- Mise en scene - the department of the Gard-- From liberal to radical revolution, 1789-1792-- The Jacobin revolution, 1793-- Post-1793: backlash and regularization-- The Empire and beyond-- The socio-economic impact of common land reform-- Conclusion-- Appendices-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social and economic change attributable to the French Revolution. Some historians have also claimed that the Revolution was primarily an urban affair with little relevance to the rural masses. This book tests these ideas by examining the Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Restoration attempts to transform the tenure of communal land in one region of southern France; the department of the Gard. By analysing the results of the legislative attempts to privatize common land, this study highlights how the Revolution's agrarian policy profoundly affected French rural society and the economy. Not only did some members of the rural community, mainly small-holding peasants, increase their land holdings, but certain sectors of agriculture were also transformed; these findings shed light on the growth in viticulture in the south of France before the monocultural revolution of the 1850s. The privatization of common land, alongside the abolition of feudalism and the transformation of judicial institutions, were key aspects of the Revolution in the countryside. This detailed study demonstrates that the legislative process was not a top-down procedure, but an interaction between a state and its citizens. It is an important contribution to the new social history of the French Revolution and will appeal to economic and social historians, as well as historical geographers.
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• Introduction - the French Revolution, the peasantry and village common land-- Mise en scene - the department of the Gard-- From liberal to radical revolution, 1789-1792-- The Jacobin revolution, 1793-- Post-1793: backlash and regularization-- The Empire and beyond-- The socio-economic impact of common land reform-- Conclusion-- Appendices-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social and economic change attributable to the French Revolution. Some historians have also claimed that the Revolution was primarily an urban affair with little relevance to the rural masses. This book tests these ideas by examining the Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Restoration attempts to transform the tenure of communal land in one region of southern France; the department of the Gard. By analysing the results of the legislative attempts to privatize common land, this study highlights how the Revolution's agrarian policy profoundly affected French rural society and the economy. Not only did some members of the rural community, mainly small-holding peasants, increase their land holdings, but certain sectors of agriculture were also transformed; these findings shed light on the growth in viticulture in the south of France before the monocultural revolution of the 1850s. The privatization of common land, alongside the abolition of feudalism and the transformation of judicial institutions, were key aspects of the Revolution in the countryside. This detailed study demonstrates that the legislative process was not a top-down procedure, but an interaction between a state and its citizens. It is an important contribution to the new social history of the French Revolution and will appeal to economic and social historians, as well as historical geographers.
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