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Jordskifteretten som arena for konfliktløsning
Sky, Kåre - 2022
Land consolidation courts deal with cases where the relationship between holders of grazing rights needs be regulated …
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From rural to urban land consolidation– An analysis of recent changes in Norwegian land consolidation
Elvestad, Helén Elisabeth; Sky, Per Kåre - 2021
In most countries, land consolidation was first introduced in rural areas, with legislation suitable for urban areas being drafted at a later date. This is also true of Norway. The first evidence of urban competency in the legislation is found in the Land Consolidation Act from 1950. It is...
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Land consolidation cases relating to grazing arrangements
Sky, Per Kåre; Elvestad, Helén Elisabeth - 2021
Land consolidation courts deal with cases where the relationship between holders of grazing rights needs be regulated … analysed 20 grazing arrangements, based on the following criteria: duration of the case; substantive and geographic limits to … establish several associations or a single association; and issues arising in established grazing arrangements and associations …
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The effect of land fragmentation on labor allocation and the economic diversity of farm households: The case of Vietnam
Nguyen, Huy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates the impacts of land fragmentation on economic diversity of farm households in Vietnam. To develop the empirical analysis, a model is presented in which the estimated impact of land fragmentation on economic diversification allows for non-neutral technical change. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109736
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A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
Sky, Per Kåre - 2018
The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle land consolidation cases for all types of properties independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624485
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Land consolidation reforms: A natural experiment on the economic and political effects of agricultural mechanization
Loumeau, Gabriel - 2022
This paper studies the causal economic and political effects of agricultural mechanization. For identification, it exploits a spatial discontinuity in the intensity of mechanization induced by land consolidation reforms in France between 1945 and 2008. The results suggest that an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455054
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Land consolidation reforms : a natural experiment on the economic and political effects of agricultural mechanization
Loumeau, Gabriel - 2022
This paper studies the causal economic and political effects of agricultural mechanization. For identification, it exploits a spatial discontinuity in the intensity of mechanization induced by land consolidation reforms in France between 1945 and 2008. The results suggest that an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443847
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Negotiations in planning and urban land consolidation
Sky, Per Kåre - 2020
Negotiations are important in urban densification processes. In particular, integrative negotiations seem to be relevant. The conflicts between neighbors and developers can be challenging to resolve. Land readjustment is used in several countries to merge properties or reshape properties in...
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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania
Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization.  During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159043
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Falling Off the Map: The Impact of Formalizing (Some) Informal Settlements in Tanzania
Collin, Matthew; Sandefur, Justin; Zeitlin, Andrew - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2015
When the Tanzanian government formalized over 200,000 informal land claims by granting leasehold titles to residents of unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam in 2004, a few neighborhoods in the initial plan were excluded due to missing satellite photos. We examine the impact of this low-cost,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213967