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Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions
This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies. Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions is for all types of actors in land management. Although primarily based on cases from Africa, it addresses land management issues from practical and theoretical perspectives relevant for land managers worldwide. It brings the discourse up to date and helps all practitioners designing new policies and those looking for new instruments to do so. Aimed at...
Advances in Responsible Land Administration
Advances in Responsible Land Administration challenges conventional forms of land administration by introducing alternative approaches and provides the basis for a new land administration theory. A compilation of observations about responsible land administration in East Africa, it focuses on a new empirical foundation rather than preexisting ideal
Ondernemers in het wild
African Parks geldt als hét succesnummer binnen de natuurbescherming. De organisatie, opgericht door Paul Fentener van Vlissingen en trouw gesteund door de Nationale Postcode Loterij, heeft in meer dan twintig Afrikaanse natuurgebieden het volledige gezag overgenomen van de staat. Ze beheert een oppervlak vergelijkbaar met Groot-Brittannië, met steun van westerse regeringen, de Europese Unie en filantropische miljardairs. Maar is het nog van deze tijd, een merendeels witte directie die beslist wat er in Afrika gebeurt? En werkt de militaire aanpak van African Parks niet averechts? Veel omwonenden zijn ontevreden over het meedogenloze optreden van de rangers. Na zijn prijswinnende onderzoek...
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016 provides a tool for policy makers to identify and analyze legal barriers for the business of agriculture and to quantify transaction costs of dealing with government regulations. Building on an earlier progress report published in November 2014, this volume presents the main results for 40 countries, for the first time using indicator scores to showcase good practices among countries in different stages of agricultural development. It also presents interesting results on the relationship between efficiency and quality of regulations, discriminatory practices in the laws, and whether regulatory information is accessible. Regional, income-group, and country-specific trends and data observations are presented on six topics: seed, fertilizer, machinery, finance, markets, and transport. The report also discusses the continued development of several topics that will be added in future reports: information and communication technology, land, water, livestock, gender, and environmental sustainability.
Im Namen der Tiere
Die NGO „African Parks“ verwaltet 22 große Naturparks in Afrika und gilt als Erfolgsgeschichte. Doch was und wer steckt wirklich dahinter? Olivier van Beemen deckt in seinem fesselnden Buch die staatsähnlichen Strukturen, die Macht des African-Parks-Militärs und das rücksichtslose Vorgehen gegen die lokale Bevölkerung auf. Kritiker sprechen von „grünem Kolonialismus“. Oder ist es der alte Kolonialismus in neuem Gewand? „African Parks“ verwaltet eine Fläche von der Größe Großbritanniens und hat sich von zwölf afrikanischen Staaten Hoheitsrechte übertragen lassen. Die Organisation unterhält bewaffnete Kräfte mit weitgehenden Befugnissen zum Schutz der Gebiete – vor ...
Space and Geospatial Technologies for the Africa We Want
This book comprises the contributions of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) international conference which is conducted biennially across Africa, alternately with the AfricaGIS conference. It is the premier forum in Africa for research on remote sensing technologies and geospatial information science, gathering leading scholars from the remote sensing and related communities. The 13th AARSE International Conference was held on October 24-28, 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda, to focus on Earth observations and geospatial science to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The five-day event themed “Space and Geospatial Technologies for the Africa We Want” was org...
Outer Space and Popular Culture
This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space themes differs in different cultural contexts, and these themes can be used to explore various aspects of the human condition and provide a context for social commentary on politically sensitive issues. With the use of space imagery evolving over the past sixty years of the space age, this is a topic ripe for in-depth exploration. The book also discusses the contrasting visions of space from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the reality ...
Remote Sensing for Land Administration
What is land? Who owns it? Who can use it? How much is it worth? What can it be used for? These are the questions land administration seeks to answer responsibly, which requires trustworthy people, transparent processes, and reliable information systems. Spatial information is an essential ingredient, and is embedded in the cadastral plans, maps, and land registry records that are used to prove ownership, trade land, access credit, resolve land disputes, enable fair taxation, and support land use planning and development. In the past, ground-based surveying techniques were used to capture the information, however, advances in remote sensing are driving the development of approaches that are ...
