Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia

ISBN-13: 9789004304741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str.

Christophe Gironde; Christophe Golay; Peter Messerli

Opis

Large-scale land acquisitions, or 'land grabbing', has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term 'land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put 'land grabbing' into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences.