In many countries today, land is increasingly subject to pressure and claims from competing uses. In addition to agriculture, these include urban development, transport, recreation, forestry, nature conservation and pollution control. Different nations show considerable diversity in the proportion of land that is agrarian, the value assigned to the land, the preferred uses for that land, and the legislative controls that regulate such activities. Law plays an important role in the allocation of agrarian land and in the amount of freedom permitted to landowners. While each nation has a more or less unique government and legal system - rooted either in civil law or in common law - certain issues are common to all. This book is the first to provide a comparative review of agrarian land policy and regulation within "western" developed economies. Twelve chapters cover specific countries: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy and Norway. There is also a chapter providing an overview of relevant European Community law and a concluding chapter comparing issues raised in the country-specific chapters.
The book provides a unique overview of the subject, and while not intended as a comprehensive guide to legal practice, is a unique reference for academics and practitioners concerned with agrarian law. It will also provide an accessible introduction to the subject for all those who may not be legally trained, but who are concerned with land use, agricultural policy and rural planning.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Wallingford
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
ISBN-13
978-0-85198-727-9 (9780851987279)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Herausgeber*in
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, USA,
Invited papers: the activities of comets related to their aging and origin; a model of the galactic tidal interaction with the Oort Comet Cloud; origin of Oort Cloud Comets in the interstellar space; origin of short-period comets; structure and evolution of the jupiter family; collective resonant phenomena on small bodies in the solar system; dynamics of periodic comets and meteor streams; evolution of short-period meteoroid streams; historical variation in the meteor flux as found in Chinese and Japanese chronicles; episodes of terrestrial geologic activity during the past 260 myr - a quantitative approach; periodicity in the crater formation rate and implications for astronomical modeling; the fundamental role of giant comets in earth history; progress in the elliptic restricted 3-body problem - asteroids in the 2/1, 3/1 and 1/1 resonance; asteroid families - recent results and present scenario. Short contributions - the ultraviolet spectra of carbonaceous chondrites; solar dust ring observation at the total solar eclipse in Mexico; short-period comets and apollo-amor-aten type asteroids in view of tisserand invariant; the charging processes of dust particles and the effects of Lorentz Scattering in the circum-solar dust band; shock metamorphism on the moon; evidence of earth catastrophe by anomalous shoked quartz at the K/T boundary; hill stability of the planar three-body problem; general and restricted cases; invisible comets on evolutionary track of short-period comets; the evolution of groups of very light stars in the galaxy, near-parabolic cometary flux in the outer solar system; organic models of interstellar grains; numerical investigation of the orbital evolution of resonant asteroid between Jupiter and Saturn; numerical investigation of motions of resonant asteroids in the three-dimensional space; candidates for families in apollo-amor type asteroids.
