Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries
ISBN: 9781849640602
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Pluto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Human geography; Landscape assessment; Landscape changes; Land settlement patterns; Land tenure -- Law and legislation;

This book takes issue with the 'idealist' approach in which land and landscape are read as purely expressive and ultimately poetic.



The authors argue that too much emphasis on the subjective construction of land obscures the fundamentally meaningful sense in which land is also used and appropriated: while land may have some subjective, ideological meaning, it exists, also, as a practical resource.



The essays focus on postcolonial legacies in land law, contemporary disputes and land claims surrounding ancestral lands, conservation issues and road protests. Areas covered include Western and Eastern Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, Australia and the Pacific, India and Indonesia.


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