Ocean a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted. While the traditional approaches might not be able to solve the complexity of the ocean governance issues, there is a need to adopt a new way of thinking in order to deal with the current problems. This book emphasises the importance of law and policy while generating ocean governance initiatives. Good Ocean Governance as a new way of thinking, needs to be supported by legislation and decision makers. It is, therefore, necessary to examine whether the idea of good ocean governance exists within the international legal system and...
Ocean a source of life, has been overused and heavily polluted. While the traditional approaches might not be able to solve the complexity of the ocea...
Both land-use regulation and territorial collective services have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within contractual communities: territory-based organisations (usually, but not exclusively residential) such as homeowners associations.
This book examines the problems and opportunities of contractual communities, avoiding both the alarmism and unwarranted apologies found in much of the literature on contractual communities.
The...
Both land-use regulation and territorial collective services have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public admi...
Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use into the rural-urban fringe.
Here the attempt is to investigate the land transformation and the driving forces which were influencing the land transformation. The present study was done on peri urban interface of Aligarh city, a relatively small city, but as other north Indian cities, it is also expanding rapidly....
Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the...
