Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order

LAW REGIME AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AS DETERMINANTS OF OWNERSHIP: Demystifying the puzzling Canadian Ownership Concentration

La Porta et al. (1998) sustain the view that countries functioning under a Common law regime, mainly the “Anglo-Saxon” model, offer better protection to the small investors and more suitable conditions for the development of large and more liquid capital markets than do countries under Civil law regimes mainly the “Franco-Saxon” countries. Stulz and Williamson (2001) document also that not only...

Law of the Cloud v Law of the Land: Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation

Cloud Computing enables the dynamic provision of resources on-demand over the Internet. The key advantage for users is that data becomes accessible from anywhere and at any time. However, to the extent that they lose control over the infrastructure, users can no longer control the way data can be accessed by them or by others. This is likely to negatively affect the fundamental rights of end-us...

Normalised Rewriting and Normalised Completion

We introduce normalised rewriting, a new rewrite relation. It generalises former notions of rewriting modulo E, dropping some conditions on E. For example , E can now be the theory of identity, idempo-tency, the theory of Abelian groups, the theory of com-mutative rings. We give a new completion algorithm for normalised rewriting. It contains as an instance the usual AC completion algorithm, bu...

Free Land and Black Property Ownership

Changing landowners, changing ecosystem? Land-ownership motivations as drivers of land management practices.

Motivations for owning rural land are shifting from an agricultural-production orientation to a preference for natural and cultural amenities. Resultant changes in land management have significant implications for the type and distribution of landscape-level disturbances that affect the delivery of ecosystem services. We examined the relationship between motivations for owning land and the impl...