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The latest floods exposed the deep vulnerability of many mountain communities in eastern Kentucky, where land ownership patterns and other barriers to recovery can leave residents with few options.
South Africa’s land reform minister should be distributing land owned by the government to black farmers rather than fussing about new laws.
Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help.
The municipality of Jasper is located within a national park, making for a unique situation regarding land ownership and planning.
For the Maasai, Nyekweri forest has such a high ecological and socio-cultural value. But new conservancies aren’t working as best they could.
Right to roam campaigners are protesting about thousands of ‘access islands’ of wilderness in England that are surrounded by private land. Outdated countryside access laws need an overhaul.
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.
New research shows that universities could offset carbon by changing some of their land to woodlands and meadows.
An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UCL
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Clinical Professor of Public Health, Purdue University
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Professor of Public Health, Purdue University
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Penn State
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Research Assistant Professor of Humanities, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor in Environmental Systems Modelling, Newcastle University
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Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona