When government officials are involved in land transactions the scope for arbitrary decision making and corruption is … large, and the land issue can turn into a political football among rival political parties …

freedoms and ecological sustainability. I argue that environmental concerns demand a reformulation of property rights in land … carefully with landed property, because nothing impacts the environment more acutely than the human use of land. While most … proprietary rights are in transformed natural resources derived from the earth, only land rights apply to the planet itself. But …

India from pre-independence stage was going for land acquisition for developmental purpose/public purpose, following … the procedure laid down by British India Government in Land Acquisition Act 1894. The Act continued to play a big role … till 2003 when government of India thought to amend it to make it people centric. The Land Acquisition and Resettlement …

between land ownership and use of pesticides in the Mekong Delta. On the one hand, the negative effects of pesticides on the … productivity in the short-run, pushing farmers to increase their use. The results show that the first effect prevails (i.e. land … owners are more prone to increase the quantity of pesticides used than land renters are) and that sensitising programmes on …