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    An Act to provide for obtaining access to neighbouring land for the purpose of carrying out work and for incidental purposes and to amend the Magistrates Court (Small Claims Division) Act 1989.

    Legislation
    Australia, Oceania

    Where a person: (a) requires entry to land, other than a highway, for the purpose of carrying out work on other land; and; (b) the land on which he or she requires entry is adjoining or adjacent to the land in respect of which he or she wishes to carry out the work; and (c) he or she does not have the agreement of another person whose agreement to the entry is required -the first-mentioned person may apply to the court for an order authorising access to the subject land on such occasions and during such period as may be specified in the order.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Australia, Oceania

    This Act concerns servitude and the right of passage on other people’s land for the purpose of carrying out works on one’s own land or on utility services on that land. The Act provides for the legal procedures for implementing such rights.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    Australia, Oceania

    These Regulations, consisting of 3 sections, implement provisions of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992. The Regulations provide for administrative and legal proceedings requirements to Neighbouring Land access, which may be established by the court under section 5(4)(a) of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 if the owner of the subject land, or other person whose agreement to the entry on the subject land is required, cannot be found. The court may make an order for substituted service if satisfied that the applicant cannot find the owner of the subject land.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2007
    Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Guatemala, China, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Netherlands, India, Mongolia, Cambodia, Asia

    Laos depends heavily on rice based agriculture systems and there is evidence that the traditional diversified diet and income base is being eroded, resulting in a negative effect on the livelihoods of the people. The opportunity to gather food in forests is diminishing and dietary diversity is being narrowed.

  5. Library Resource

    Volume 9 Issue 9

    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2020
    Australia, Canada, United States of America

    Inclusive knowledge systems that engage local perspectives and social and natural sciences are difficult to generate and infuse into decision-making processes but are critical for conservation planning. This paper explores local tacit knowledge application to identify wildlife locations, movement patterns and heightened opportunities and barriers for connectivity conservation planning in a critical linkage area known as the Chignecto Isthmus in the eastern Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Australia

    For 25 years the Australian Landcare program has encouraged rural land managers to work cooperatively to resolve natural resource management issues across the nation. Landcare has spread and the model is used internationally. Despite its successes, Landcare has come under criticism for not sufficiently directing land management practices towards environmental sustainability. This criticism sees it as having maintained the “status quo”.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Australia, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, India, Russia, China

    Groundwater vulnerability assessment is an important task in water resources and land management. The most sophisticated among the vulnerability assessment techniques is the GIS-based DRASTIC model. However, despite its popularity, it is marred with excessive subjectivity glitches; little research has been conducted to address the shortcomings associated with this method. This study investigates various issues regarding the application of the GIS-based DRASTIC model through a critical review of relevant literatures.

  8. Library Resource

    An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the acquisition of land for public works and other public purposes, and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Australia, Oceania

    The Act consolidates and amends the law relating to the acquisition of land for public works and other public purposes. It consists of 51 sections (grouped into 6 Parts) and completed by two Schedules. Part 2 defines which are the purposes for which land may be taken, the procedures for notification and objections and the means by which land may be taken. Part 3 deals with the discontinuance of taking land, Part 4 with compensation while Part 5 and 6 deal with general and transitional matters.

  9. Library Resource
    Regulations
    September, 2014
    Australia, Oceania

    This Regulation provides for the implementation of the Acquisition of Land Act 1967 by prescribing the fees applicable under section 9 of the Act. The fee payable for an application under section 9 of the Act is— (a) if the application relates to only 1 parcel of land—$173.70; or (b) if the application relates to more than 1 parcel of land—$173.70 plus $51.50 for each additional parcel of land.

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