-laden. This article traces the development of emissions trading from the Kyoto protocol and the EU emissions trading scheme to the allocation of emissionrights to plant operators on national level. In Germany, important lessons have been learned from
There is a general consensus that emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced. One possible way to achieve this is through emissions trading. While the underlying principle is rather simple, its implementation is much more complex and conflict
The vortex of rights : ‘right to the city’ at a crossroads
International organization ; Marxism ; Right to the city ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urbanism
The right to the city concept has recently attracted a great deal of attention from radical theorists and grassroots activists of urban justice, who have embraced the notion as a means to analyze and challenge neoliberal urbanism. The article
analyzes such projects by reframing the right to the city concept to foreground its roots in Marxian labor theory of value. It argues that Lefebvre's formulation of the right to the city is invaluable for analyzing and delineating contradictory urban
politics that are pulled into the vortex of the right to the city. The article concludes with a theoretical proposition that aims to open up space for further critical debate on the right to the city.
The right to the city and critical reflections on China's property rights activism
Activism ; China ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Labour migration ; Property right ; Right to the city ; Social geography ; Urban development ; Urban policy
This paper refers to the perspective of the “right to the city” to examine whose rights count in China's urban development contexts and proposes a cross-class alliance that engages both migrants and local citizens. The alliance itself will have
substantial political implications, overcoming the limited level of rights awareness that mainly rests on distributional justice in China. The discussions are supported by an analysis of empirical data from the author's field research in Guangzhou, which
L’A. étudie les demandes d’autonomie émises par trois groupes ethniques en Colombie. Il insiste sur l’importance de lier la politique territoriale à l’étude de la gouvernabilité environnementale et à la mise en commun des ressources. Ensuite, à
Gender and politics of scale : the Christian Right, sex education, and community in Vista, California, 1990-1994
Vista has been the site of a heated struggle over who would control public education - the Christian Right or so-called secular humanists. The Christian Right gained control of the school board from 1992 to 1994 by stressing the moral authority
of local, place-based communities. Nevertheless, the Christian Right is a community of interest (about 15% of all Americans) using identity politics to force their values on others. - (SLD)
Citizenship ; Decision making process ; Local policy ; Poverty ; Public space ; Right to the city ; Social exclusion ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urban society
Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre the vision of the right to the city has inspired a global social movement, legislative reform in Latin America and international debates at World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro. The article critically examines
the right to the city through the lens of contributions to the UN-HABITAT e-debate in November-December 2009, which gave voice to those who might otherwise not be heard. Drawing on these contributions, it argues for a new conceptualization of citizenship
, and for a redefinition of the role of the local state and social actors in implementing the rights-based agenda that the right to the city entails.
Blacks ; Land ; Land rights ; Landed estate ; Pretoria ; South Africa ; Witwatersrand ; Years 1910-19
A reconstruction of African rights to land in the Pretoria District in 1913 is presented from a wide range of sources. The date represents the cut off date for claims for the restitution of land rights in South Africa under the Restitution of Land
Rights Act of 1994, and so is significant for the official process. It is shown that the extent of land rights is far more extensive than was previously thought and that the potential for claims may similarly be more extensive than anticipated
by the government. The rights were also more complex and difficult with precision. - (AJC)
The silent articulation of private land rights in Soviet Estonia : a geographical perspective
Estonia ; Ideology ; Land ; Land rights ; Landed property ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics
Drawing on cartographical analyses and interviews made in the rural district of Muhu, the paper demonstrates that people who owned land before the Soviet occupation kept track of the offically annulled pre-Soviet land rights, by relating to inertial
landscape elements as memory-aids. To local inhabitants the landscape provided evidence in support of the idea of legal continuity of pre-Soviet land rights. The post-Soviet land restitution reform implied a re-discovery or re-expression of property rights
Becoming the birthplace of women's rights : the transformation of Seneca Falls, New York
This village of 7 200 inhabitants in central New York State is rapidly becoming a feminist pilgrimage center. A convention in 1848 organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton issued the earliest manifesto of women's rights in the USA.―(DWG)
Indigenous political and property rights and economic/environmental reform in northwest Siberia
Asian part of Russia ; Economic reform ; Energy resources ; Environmental conservation ; Minority ; Natural gas ; Property right ; Regional economy ; West Siberia
construction are disrupting operations based on seasonal migration within sovhhozy. Several variants for the transfer of land rights from state farm ownership to private entities.
Fragmented Brussels and consolidated Amsterdam. A comparative study of the spatial organization of property rights
Amsterdam ; Belgium ; Brussels ; Netherlands (The) ; Property right ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban dynamics ; Urban growth ; Urban region
The central aim of this study is to understand the long-term urban trajectories of the Brussels and Amsterdam urban regions in terms of different spatial organizations of property rights. After a consideration of international comparative urban