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Why isn’t urban development sustainable? An institutional approach to the case of Athens, Greece

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2020
Greece
Urban Tenure
forest land
land investments
land policies
Despite the rise to prominence of sustainable planning the state of urgency and the pressure imposed by the extreme competition between metropolitan territories reduce sustainability to a marketoriented doctrine for deregulated urban development The aim of this article is an exploration of the current Athenian urban crisis by centring on sustainable urban development plans territorial planning institutions and urban policies To this end the phenomenon of urban crisis is explained as a derivative of the failure of sustainability reforms By establishing a link between the institutional framew
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The Influence of Local Governance: Effects on the Sustainability of Bioenergy Innovation

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Norway, Italy, Sweden, Finland
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land acquisitions
This paper deals with processes and outcomes of sustainable bioenergy development in Emilia Romagna. It draws on an on-going research project concerning inclusive innovation in forest-based bioenergy and biogas in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Italy. The goal is to explore how local governance impacts on inclusive innovation processes and triple bottom sustainability of bioenergy development in Emilia Romagna and, ultimately, to contribute to the debate on the bioeconomy. It thus compares the case of biogas and forest-based bioenergy production.
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LAND MARKETS AND FARM INCOMES IN MINNESOTA

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Italy, United States of America
Land & Investments
land
land markets
First Annual Conference on Agricultural Policy and the Environment; Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by University of Minnesota, Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy; Agricultural Development Regional Agency (ESAV); University of Padova, Motta di Livenza, Italy, June 19-23, 1989, Volume II Contents: The Agricultural Land Market in Minnesota, by Philip Raup Land Prices and Farm Incomes in Minnesota, by Kent D. Olson and Michael D.
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European investors and land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land investments
The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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CREATION OF LAND MARKETS IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF LAND ADMINISTRATION

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Albania, Norway, United States of America, Europe
Land & Investments
land
land administration
land markets
This paper describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets. It begins with the proposition that there are similar land market institutional problems which most "transition" countries are facing, due largely to common experiences in creating command economies during the past 50-80 years and the almost simultaneous decisions of these countries to move toward market political economies in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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The Role of the EU in Land Grabbing in Africa - CSO Monitoring 2009-2010 “Advancing African Agriculture” (AAA): The Impact of Europe’s Policies and Practices on African Agriculture and Food Security

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land grabbing
This report examines the role of European Union (EU) member States, both collectively and individually, in the current reported wave of foreign land investment in Africa that has led to the current use of the term ‘land grabbing’.It discusses whether this role is consistent with the EU’s commitment to advance agriculture in Africa in order to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals and member states’ obligations under international human rights law.
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Assessing the Bonitet of Cadastral Parcels for Land Reallocation in Urban Consolidation

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Croatia, Norway, United States of America
Land & Investments
land valuation
parcels
Cadastral parcels valuation is a very important aspect when defining the priorities for the selection of newly formed parcels in the reallocation processes. Land reallocation involves a new redistribution of land parcels in the project implementation area. In doing so, it is necessary to take into account the preferences of private owners, the value of cadastral parcels, and their bonitet values, whose determination is the basic task of this research.
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Determination of "dehesa area" in Castilla-La Mancha with available cartography: results in Toledo province (Spain)

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2005
Spain
land use
land policies
land economics
In the framework of the National Proyect: "Tipification, Cartography and Evaluation of Spanish Pastures" (INIA 00T00-037-C17-08) and Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 2001-2004), promoted by the Spanish Society of Pastures Studies, "dehesas" areas are obtained depending on the uses of different cartographic sources. A comparative analyze has been carried out in Toledo province (Spain). Data used were obtained from the Spanish Forestry Map, the CORINE-LAND COVER 2000 proyect and Cadastral information.
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Adequate compensation in compulsory acquisition of land in the Albanian Trans Adriatic Pipeline project

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2017
Albania, Latvia
land policies
expropriation
research
compensation
land rights
land economics
land ownership
The aim of this paper is to research the process of compulsory acquisition of land and its fixtures in the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project in Albania from the perspective of the affected persons. The legislation of Albania as well as international principles concerning compulsory acquisition of property was analysed. Examined also was the process of how legal and institutional framework is applied in determining adequate compensation to landowners who are mostly small rural farmers.
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PERIURBAN AGRICULTURE IN METROPOLITAN AREAS: THE BOLOGNA CASE STUDY; Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, June 17-18, 1996, Padova, Italy.

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1996
Italy
land use
land economics