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This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the USA, with greatest emphasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human-environment systems. Overall these studies show that smallholder studies are more pertinent than ever, especially in the face of finite resources and global environmental change.
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Recent concerns over energy supply and pricing have led some to look increasingly to federal lands as a potential energy source. This book explains the legal framework for energy leasing and permitting for onshore lands subject to the control of the federal government. The book first reviews the laws and regulations affecting leasing of federal lands for exploration and production of oil, natural gas, and coal, as well as the permits that lessees must obtain in order to explore for and produce these resources. It then continues by addressing existing laws and regulations that govern the use of
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A balanced perspective on the issue of who owns the land is coupled with the views of various interest groups.
Land use, Rural --- Rural land use --- Land use --- Agriculture
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Historical experience in many Sub-Saharan African countries demonstrates that an alternative approach to conventional land administration methods is required to appropriately secure tenure and administer land rights in customary areas. This book is about dealing with the dynamics of customary tenure and with land governance and institutional capacity issues necessary to implement land administration at the local level. Methods for implementing land administration systems at the local level have been presented in a three-phased tenure model. The author concludes that customary tenure institutio
Land use --- Land use, Urban --- Government policy
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Addresses the human impacts on landscapes through occupation (urbanization) and development as a contribution to anthropogenic geomorphology or 'anthropogeomorphology'. This includes a focus on land clearance, conservation issues, pollution, decay and erosion, urban climate, and anthropogenic climate change. These topics, as well as others, are considered to shed more light on the human transformation of natural landscapes and the environmental impacts and geomorphological hazards that environmental change can encompass.
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Il peut paraître étonnant de consacrer tout un livre à l'étude des inégalités sociales en matière de santé dans le cadre des pays occidentaux, très majoritairement dotés de systèmes universels de soins de qualité. Pourtant, force est de constater que les disparités sociales persistent encore dans nos sociétés où l'égalité de traitement n'est toujours pas synonyme d'égalité sur le plan de la santé et devant la mort. Cet ouvrage dresse un portrait détaillé et offre une analyse rigoureuse des inégalités sociales dans le domaine de la santé, mettant en lumière les recherches importantes faites en sciences sociales, en psychologie et en sciences de la santé. Tout en proposant des pistes d'intervention, Ginette Paquet montre le rôle déterminant de la petite enfance dans le développement du sentiment d'emprise sur la vie et l'importance des facteurs de protection pour ceux qui vivent au bas de l'échelle sociale. -- Renaud-Bray.
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