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INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE AND LAND USE IN ALASKA: COMMUNITY IMPACTS OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT
No full textThrough the utilization of qualitative methods such as archival analysis, semi-structured interviewing, comparative and extended case studies, and observation, this paper closely examines two related Alaska Native communities. Our purpose is to document the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) on land tenure, land use, and community structure. In all, 41 interviews were conducted, focusing on the following issues: (1) the role of the tribal government in relation to the regional and village corporate structure; (2) the recent changes in traditional land uses; and (3) how group decisions are made regarding land management and distribution of resources. By locating ANCSA within a broader context of economic, political, and cultural globalization that seeks to substitute traditional collective rights in land with individual tenure in a "free market" economy, the findings of this research may carefully and cautiously be applied beyond North America to other indigenous-state struggles regarding control of land and resources.United States. -- [Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act], Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Alaska, Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Alaska, Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Claims, Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Alaska, Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Government relations -- History, Land Economics/Use,
Understanding farming practices to rethink land change transitions: a research challenge
No full textAgriculture uses and manages dynamically 38% of the global land surface. Farming practices are evolving to
intensify current farming systems in parallel with the expansion or the abandonment of exploited surfaces, under
systems of constraints and opportunities ranging from local to global scales. Moreover, major agricultural land
changes are prospected by near future scenarios for increasing in global population and improvement of standards of
living for poorest regions. As a result, agriculture is undertaking a wide range of rapid adaptations whose
consequences are too subtle to be consistently observed in the short-middle term by global or regional monitoring,
such as remote sensing techniques. Nonetheless, these evolutions impact the land system management at
increasingly wider scales. Accordingly agronomy has been called anew to integrate farming practices on grazed and
cultivated fields in the wider spatial context (Benoit, Rizzo et al. 2012, Landscape Ecol. 27:1385-1394). In this
session we will discuss how a better understanding of farming practices can help rethinking land change transitions
(theme 1). The underpinning aim is promoting a greater involvement of agronomy in the evolution of a
multidisciplinary approach to the land system management. We will structure our session on three main challenges.
First, reflecting on the theoretical frameworks adopted by several disciplines in the study of agricultural land
transitions at different scales and from different perspectives. We will focus on the rural landscapes management as a
major cross-disciplinary study object to increase the synergy among agronomy, geography, and ecology within the land system science. Second, improving methods to describe and understand agricultural land change transitions.
Farming practices, with their continuous adaptability to the evolving context (e.g., climate change, price volatility,
farm household strategies, etc.) translate relevantly the large variability of agricultural land changes over time and
space on Earth. Nevertheless many difficulties remain to integrate them in the analysis of the land systems. For that,
we will evaluate existing and emerging methods that tackle farming practices at regional and wider levels. Third,
enhancing the assessment and design of farming systems to deal with multiple issues. Short term issues for
agricultural land use (e.g., feeding the world and increasing the production of biomass for energy) are faced with
long term issues of resource management (e.g., freshwater protection, biodiversity conservation). We will focus on
some examples about the spatial allocation of crop patterns – and of the associated farming practices – to question
how environmental and societal needs can be met
Texas General Land Office and the Environment - Record of Responsibility and Achievement
No full text16 pages; available for download at the link below.This brochure describes programs and practices of the Texas General Land Office that safeguard the renewable natural resources in Texas public lands - submerged lands in bays and the Gulf of Mexico, bordering wetlands and beaches, forests, and brush country. The land-use decisions we make today will affect the vitality of coastal fisheries, the survival of wildlife populations, the productivity of the land itself, and the quality of the environment for human inhabitants
Cadastral reform of indigenous land information and environmental sustainability in New Zealand
No full textNew Zealand’s cadastral system has come under scrutiny in recent years, A sharp rise in the number of land claims by the country’s indigenous Maori, accompanied by historic environmental legislation, have prompted milk for cadastral reform. Although no consensus has yet emerged among experts about future cadastral reforms, land information mangers and Maori leaders generally concede the need for the overhaul of current land information management practices. However, any future reforms will have to reconcile seemingly incompatible goals, by being legally sound, culturally appropriate, and environmentally sustainable. Most of the land in New Zealand is subject to legislation enacted within the past decade, which incorporates concern for the issues of sustainability, as well as the Maori’s cultural values and ancestral rights. The presence of this legislation, and a growing capacity among Maori to be involved, both mean that Maori concepts of land management and sustainability are receiving increasing attention in New Zealand, and are likely to influence the shape of future cadastral reforms for Maori lands
LAND DETERMINATION OF OWNERSHIP, INQUIRY AND NOTICE, HEARINGS, LAND CLAIMS AND APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTTRATION OF LAND PARCEL, PONAPE. (CONTAINING MAPS AND PICTURES) 1976 - 1981
No full textIncludes cartographic material, correspondence, images, and reports. Land determination of ownership, inquiry and notice, hearings, land claims and applications for registration of land parcel, Ponape. Periodical: Ponape Land Gazette (OCoLC: 11558950). Determination of land ownerships, Ponape. Preliminary inquiry, land notice, hearings, land claims and applications for registration of land parcel. Periodical: Ponape Land Gazette. Map 01: [Ponape map]. Map 02: M-7-P serial no. 14, Madolenihmw Municipality. Large format 1: Organizational chart, Ponape district land commission, 1976
Proposed recommendations : Mallee study area /
No full text0724109242 (paperback) (ISBN). "March 1976".; Index indicating National Library of Australia holdings, in an online version at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2766744; Library's NL copy does not contain maps.Mallee study are
Roads, lands, markets, and deforestation : a spatial model of land use in Belize
No full textRural roads promote economic development but also facilitate deforestation. To explore the tradeoffs between development and environmental damage posed by road building, the authors develop and estimate a spatially explicit model of land use. This model takes into account location and land characteristics and predicts land use at each point on the landscape. They find that: (a) market access and distance to roads strongly affect the probability of agricultural use, especially for commercial agriculture; (b) high slopes, poor drainage, and low soil fertility discourage both commercial and semi subsistence agriculture; and (c) semi-subsistence agriculture is especially sensitive to soil acidity and lack nitrogen (confirming anthropological findings that subsistence farmers are shrewd judges of soil). Spatially explicit models are analytically powerful because they exploit rich spatial variation in causal variables, including the precise siting of roads. They are useful for policy because they can pinpoint threats to particular critical habitats and watersheds. This model is a descendant of the venerable von Thunen model. It assumes that land will tend to be devoted to its highest-value use, taking into account tenure and other constraints. The value of a plot for a particular use depends on the land's physical productivity for that use and the farmgate prices of relevant inputs and outputs. A reduced-form, multinomial logit specification of this model calculates implicit values of land in alternative uses as a function of land location and characteristics. The resulting equations can then be used for prediction or analysis. The model was applied to cross-sectional data for 1989-92 for Belize, a forested country currently experiencing rapid expansion of both subsistence and commercial agriculture. A geographic information system was used to manage the spatial data and extract variables based on the three kilometer sample grid. Three land uses were distinguished:"natural"vegetation, comprising forests, woodlands, wetlands, and savanna; semi-subsistence agriculture, comprising traditional milpa (slash-and-burn) cultivation and other nonmechanized cultivation of annual crops; and commercial agriculture, consisting mainly of sugarcane, pasture, citrus, and mechanized production of corn and kidney beans. Two dimensions of distance to market were distinguished: the distance from each sample point to the road, and on-road travel time to the nearest town. Data on a wide variety of land and soil characteristics were also used.Wetlands,Water Conservation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Land Use and Policies,Forestry,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Energy and Environment,Wetlands
Rural Land Use and Land Tenure in New Zealand
No full textPrivate land-use decisions are critical for a broad spectrum of environmental and social outcomes, ranging from water quality and climate change to rural income distribution. I use a large dataset of the land-use decisions of New Zealand landowners to estimate a cross-sectional multinomial logit model of land use. In this model, the optimal land-use choice depends on geophysical attributes of the land, the cost of access to markets, and on land tenure (M?ori freehold title versus general freehold title). I employ the estimated relationship in a counterfactual scenario to assess the overall impact of M?ori tenure on the willingness of landowners to supply land for the four most important rural uses in the country: dairying; sheep or beef farming; plantation forestry; and an economically unproductive use, scrub. This allows me to conjecture about the environmental implications of New Zealand’s land-tenure system.land use, land tenure, discrete choice model
ALLOCATION OF LAND FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY, COURTHOUSE AND LAND RECORDS VAULT AT MAJURO ATOLL, MARSHALL ISLANDS. 1970 - 1971
No full textIncludes cartographic material, correspondence, and reports. Allocation of land for a public library, courthouse and land records vault at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. Map 01: M-7091 c-2 sheet 2 of 22, Majuro courthouse. Map 02: [Topographic photo map, DUD area sheet 5 of 12]. Map 03: SK 3A 001/69 Department of Public Works Planning Division
North west quarter of Van Diemens Land [cartographic material] : including the grants of land belonging to the Van Diemens Land Company /
No full text[New ed.]. Map of part of north western Tasmania to River Forth with Van Diemens Land Company grants. Relief shown by hachures.; Watermark "A Cowan & Sons Patent 1862".; Inset: A plan shewing the system on which land was marked out into 80 acre sections on the V.D. Land Comps. property at Emu Bay on the Circular Head, Mainland.; Map 227 from Ferguson Collection.; Tooley, Ch 5, 440.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f227
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