Introduction : Land Fictions and the Politics of Commodification in City and Country / D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake -- Fictitious but not Utopian : Land Commodification and Dispossession in Rural India / Michael Levien -- Fictions of Surplus : Commodifying Public Land in Canada and the...

This paper is a qualitative case study of two land acquisition cases highlighting the empirical effect of legal reforms on land use policy over time in Indonesia. Under the Suharto regime, land acquisition in the public interest was often coercive, with the government determining one-sided...

Public interest in the use of private lands / Marion Clawson and Benjamin C. Dysart III -- Multi-media aspects of waste management -- Raymond C. Loehr -- Effective toxics management / David L. Morrell -- Biotechnology and thoroughbred agriculture / Jack Doyle -- Maintaining agricultural land as...