Search Results - "Dwyer, Michael B."

formalization fix? Land titling, land concessions and the politics of spatial transparency in Cambodia by Dwyer, Michael B

“…In a widely read paper, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank and others propose systematic property rights formalization as a key…”
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“They will not automatically benefit”: The politics of infrastructure development in Laos's Northern Economic Corridor by Dwyer, Michael B.

“…At a time when the shortcomings of neoliberal development are well known, China's Belt and Road Initiative offers both an opportunity and a requirement to…”
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Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector by Dwyer, Michael B., Nanhthavong, Vong

“…•The issue of land-deal taxation featured centrally in early debates about the global land rush, but has since largely disappeared.•This paper uses spatial and…”
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The Role of Remote Sensing for Understanding Large-Scale Rubber Concession Expansion in Southern Laos by Özdoğan, Mutlu, Baird, Ian, Dwyer, Michael

“…Increasing global demand for natural rubber began in the mid-2000s and led to large-scale expansion of plantations in Laos until rubber latex prices declined…”
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Building the Politics Machine: Tools for 'Resolving' the Global Land Grab by Dwyer, Michael B.

“…ABSTRACT The recent proliferation of transnational land deals has put the long‐fraught relationship between international cooperation, national development and…”
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Peripheral centers: vertical politics and the geography of Chinese cross-border opium replacement in Southeast Asia's "New Golden Triangle" by Lu, Juliet, Dwyer, Michael B.

“…China's Opium Replacement Policy (ORP) is one of the country's earliest cross-border development interventions in the upper Mekong region. A massive state…”
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Micro-Geopolitics: Capitalising Security in Laos's Golden Quadrangle by Dwyer, Michael B.

“…Enclosure, dispossession and displacement loom large in current debates about the recent boom in transnational farmland deals, and about Chinese agribusiness…”
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State Spaces of Resistance: Industrial Tree Plantations and the Struggle for Land in Laos by Kenney‐Lazar, Miles, Suhardiman, Diana, Dwyer, Michael B.

“…Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries…”
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‘Better-practice’ Concessions? Some Lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard Skin Landscape by Dwyer, Michael B, Polack, Emily, So, Sokbunthoeun

“…In the context of the global land rush, policy debates are split on the question of state land concessions: are smallholder-centric ‘inclusive’ investment…”
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Missing the forest for the trees? Navigating the trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation under REDD by Ingalls, Micah L., Dwyer, Michael B.

“…Forested landscapes play a critical role in mitigating climate change by sequestering carbon while at the same time fostering adaption by supporting ecosystem…”
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The geography of large-scale land acquisitions: Analysing socio-ecological patterns of target contexts in the global South by Messerli, Peter, Giger, Markus, Dwyer, Michael B., Breu, Thomas, Eckert, Sandra

“…This paper analyses local geographical contexts targeted by transnational large-scale land acquisitions (>200 ha per deal) in order to understand how emerging…”
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The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas by Dwyer, Michael B., Ingalls, Micah L., Baird, Ian G.

“…Because of the role that peripheral forest landscapes played in postwar nation-building, the Lao military has long played a significant, even if often…”
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Negligible impact of supermarkets on food security (so far) in low-income neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana by Fobi, Daniel, Waldman, Kurt B., Dwyer, Michael B., Robeson, Scott M., Blekking, Jordan P.

“…In recent years, African policymakers have embraced supermarket development as a form of food system modernization, but the impacts of the proximity of…”
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Alano, Maria Lisa, Carbonnier, Gilles, Cismas, Ioana, De Schutter, Olivier, Dwyer, Michael B, Gironde, Christophe, Golay, Christophe, Heinimann, Andreas, Keulertz, Martin, Mazoyer, Marcel, Messerli, Peter, Mirza, Hafiz, Nanhthavong, Vong, Nooteboom, Gerben, Paramita, Patricia, Peeters, Amaury, Polack, Emily, Roudart, Laurence, Schoenweger, Oliver, Senties Portilla, Gilda, Shohibuddin, Mohamad, So, Sokbunthoeun, Speller, Will, Woertz, Eckart, Zhan, James

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