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Contemporary Housing Issues in a Globalized World
Häftad, 2020
634 kr
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The globalization of housing finance led to the global financial crisis, which has created new barriers to adequate and affordable housing. It presents major challenges for current housing law and policy, as well as for the development of housing rights. This book examines and discusses key …
Property and Sovereignty
Legal and Cultural Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
634 kr
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This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual meaning of 'sovereignty' in property discourse - political sovereignty and owner sovereignty. The contributors discuss the nature of …
Property Rights and Neoliberalism
Cultural Demands and Legal Actions
Av Laura J. Hatcher, Wayne V. McIntosh
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system. In addition to this, over the last several decades …
Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain
Inbunden, 2008
2303 kr
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The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves. Discussion centers on a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v. City of New London. This case involved the use of eminent …
Law and Recovery From Disaster: Hurricane Katrina
Inbunden, 2009
2517 kr
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In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, directly affecting 1.5 million people. Only one year earlier, an Indian Ocean tsunami struck Indonesia, destroying or damaging more than 370,000 homes. As forces of nature, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and floods are …
Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy
Inbunden, 2010
2303 kr
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Hernando de Soto is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. His books The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path have had a tremendous impact on debates about international development, but his work also has been controversial. One of de Soto's core ideas is that the institution of private …
Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships
Av Nestor M. Davidson, Robin Paul Malloy
Inbunden, 2009
2517 kr
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With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention …
Reappraisals in the Law of Property
Av John V. Orth
Inbunden, 2010
2303 kr
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Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In Reappraisals in the Law of Property, author John V. Orth considers various topics in order to discover the forces that have been …
Modern Chinese Real Estate Law
Property Development in an Evolving Legal System
Inbunden, 2012
2303 kr
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With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study uses fieldwork interviews to establish how the Chinese real estate market operates in practice from …
Property Rights and Neoliberalism
Cultural Demands and Legal Actions
Av Laura J. Hatcher, Wayne V. McIntosh
Inbunden, 2010
1676 kr
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Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system. In addition to this, over the last several decades …
Idea of Home in Law
Displacement and Dispossession
Av Lorna Fox O'Mahony, James A. Sweeney
Inbunden, 2010
2303 kr
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The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas …
Public Nature of Private Property
Av Michael Diamond, Robin Paul Malloy
Inbunden, 2011
2517 kr
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What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private …
Community, Home, and Identity
Av Terry L. Turnipseed, Michael Diamond
Häftad, 2016
834 kr
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Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one's identity and how one's identity is …
Law and Recovery From Disaster: Hurricane Katrina
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, directly affecting 1.5 million people. Only one year earlier, an Indian Ocean tsunami struck Indonesia, destroying or damaging more than 370,000 homes. As forces of nature, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and floods are …
Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hernando de Soto is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. His books The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path have had a tremendous impact on debates about international development, but his work also has been controversial. One of de Soto's core ideas is that the institution of private …
Public Nature of Private Property
Av Michael Diamond, Robin Paul Malloy
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private …
Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships
Av Nestor M. Davidson, Robin Paul Malloy
Häftad, 2016
834 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention …
Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict
Land, Custom and Law in East Timor
Av Daniel Fitzpatrick, Andrew McWilliam m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement. This book is a timely response to the increased international focus on peace-building problems arising from population …
Modern Chinese Real Estate Law
Property Development in an Evolving Legal System
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study uses fieldwork interviews to establish how the Chinese real estate market operates in practice from …
Idea of Home in Law
Displacement and Dispossession
Av Lorna Fox O'Mahony, James A. Sweeney
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas …
Tribes, Land, and the Environment
Häftad, 2016
834 kr
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Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law. Native American tribes have a far more complex relationship with the environment than is captured by the stereotype of Indians as environmental …
Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves. Discussion centers on a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v. City of New London. This case involved the use of eminent …
Reappraisals in the Law of Property
Av John V. Orth
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In Reappraisals in the Law of Property, author John V. Orth considers various topics in order to discover the forces that have been …
Tribes, Land, and the Environment
Inbunden, 2012
2303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law. Native American tribes have a far more complex relationship with the environment than is captured by the stereotype of Indians as environmental …
Community, Home, and Identity
Av Terry L. Turnipseed, Michael Diamond
Inbunden, 2012
2517 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one's identity and how one's identity is …
Property and Sovereignty
Legal and Cultural Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
2303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual meaning of 'sovereignty' in property discourse - political sovereignty and owner sovereignty. The contributors discuss the nature of …
Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict
Land, Custom and Law in East Timor
Av Daniel Fitzpatrick, Andrew McWilliam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement. This book is a timely response to the increased international focus on peace-building problems arising from population …
Contemporary Housing Issues in a Globalized World
Inbunden, 2014
2303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The globalization of housing finance led to the global financial crisis, which has created new barriers to adequate and affordable housing. It presents major challenges for current housing law and policy, as well as for the development of housing rights. This book examines and discusses key …
