Common land ; Local government ; Modernization ; Mountain ; Norway ; Resource management ; Rural community
sympathy for other institutional solutions, the answers can be elusive. Sandberg reviews the political struggle over the reintroduction of Commons Law for Mountain Areas in Northern Norway. The special history of Finnmark, the lands of the nomadic Sami
The trials of Laurence Powell: law, space, and a big time use of force
The A. seeks to develop two of the central claims of the emerging critical literature on the relationships between law and geography - that the law is an ongoing interpretive construction influenced by extralegal discourses, and that law, society
Wrestling with law : (geographical) specificity vs. (legal) abstraction in Law, regulation, and geography. 2.
Geographical research touching on law is assessed in the context of a discussion of current trends in legal thought and legal scholarship, which is recently receptive to interdisciplinary influences.
Racism and law in Canada : a geographical perspective in Law, regulation, and geography. 1.
The major concern of the paper is to show not only that racism has operated in Canada in spite of the rule of law but that the law has itself been an instrument used in the construction of racism as a hegemonic social relationship.
The annihilation of space by law : the roots and implications of anti-homeless laws in the United States
The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and implications of anti-homeless laws, and their relationship to the ideology of globalization and livability in four areas. The changing legal structure of public space is examinded in American
cities, focusing on th rash of laws that seek to limit the actions of homeless people. These laws attempt the annihilation of the people who live in space. They reflect and reinforce a exclusionary sense of modern citizenship.
Do municipal residency laws affect labour market outcomes ?
Studies investigating the economic effects of residency laws on municipal labour markets have not obtained consistent results. The A. re-examines the effects of residency laws using newer data, relatively large samples and cities with a wide range
of populations and data for protective services. Residency laws do not affect compensation and employment for either police or firefighters. Possible explanations for the results are non-compliance with the laws or variations in who is affected by the laws.
Agriculture ; Farm ; Legislation ; Public policy ; Rural community ; United States of America ; Well-being
Bien que les recherches révèlent des effets négatifs provenant de l'industrialisation de l'agriculture sur les communautés rurales américaines, on n'est guère renseigné sur les remèdes que les politiques publiques doivent apporter. A l'aide de
This paper tests for the existence of diseconomies of size for Canadian cities using Gibrat's Law. Testing for that Law is equivalent to testing for unit roots commonly found in the time series literature. The tests indicate that Gibrat's Law cannot
Structures socio-économiques dans l'espace rural du nord de la Hesse (du 16e au 19e siècle)
Agricultural colonization ; Eighteenth Century ; Germany ; Hessen ; Nineteenth Century ; Rural area ; Rural economy ; Rural history ; Rurallaws ; Rural society ; Seventeenth Century ; Sixteenth Century ; Socio-economic system
L'A. présente le développement juridique, économique et social des différentes classes sociales et leur influence sur la colonisation de l'espace rural du 16e au 19e siècle dans le nord de la Hesse. - (D. Rouvière).
Farming out factories: Japan's law to promote the introduction of industry into agricultural village areas
Choix du site ; Espace industriel ; Espace rural ; Etablissement industriel ; Flexibilité ; Industrie ; Japon ; Localisation industrielle ; Législation ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Zone industrielle
Flexibility ; Industrial establishment ; Industrial estate ; Industrial location ; Industrial space ; Industry ; Japan ; Legislation ; Location choice ; Rural area ; State control
d'activités industrielles dans les aires agricoles villageoises. Emplois industriels occupés par des membres de ménages agricoles. Intervention active de l'Etat pour favoriser de nouvelles régulations dans le milieu rural.
Afforestation ; Appalachian Mountains ; Ecosystem ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Mine ; Ohio ; Political ecology ; Rural area ; Rural property ; United States of America
Appalaches ; Arbolado ; Bosque ; Ecología política ; Ecosistema ; Espacio rural ; Estados Unidos ; Gestión del medio ambiente ; Mina ; Propiedad rural
L'accent est mis sur la manière dont de petits propriétaires ruraux marginalisés ont rendu plus facile le retour de la forêt dans les Appalaches de l'Ohio, région écologiquement dévastée par l'activité minière. L'enquête effectuée dans ce milieu
The evidence from one free-standing squatter settlement on the Witwatersrand suggests that squatting in the south of Johannesburg is not primarily a result of rural immigrants since the abolition of urban influx control laws in 1986, but the result