Privatization, co-operation and sustainability : understanding the implications of land-reform in Goa

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2006

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SANDEE, Kathmandu, NP

Abstract

Across the developing world the way in which land is controlled and managed has been steadily changing. In the past fifty years, community ownership has increasingly given way to privatization. The impact of this change on social equity and on the environment is a key issue that interests conservationists and politicians alike.

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This policy brief is based on SANDEE working paper no. 14-06, "Heterogeneity, commons and privatisation : agrarian institutional change in Goa"

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LAND TENURE, SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS, ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS, LAND MANAGEMENT, INDIA

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