Abstract Neoliberalism has failed us. Our waterways are contaminated, their mauri (life-force) diminished; our economic growth is fast approaching environmental limits, almost 4000 of indigenous plant and animal species currently threatened with or at risk extinction, biodiversity declined significantly. Increasingly stringent regulations being rolled out by policy makers to protect natural sys...

Increasingly developing world governments are being re-structured to improve governance and to alleviate poverty, and this also applies to government departments associated with the registration and cadastral systems. The link between cadastral reform, good governance and poverty alleviation will be explored by reviewing some of the recent thinking in this area, and by drawing on experience wit...

In India, the past couple of decades witnessed, simultaneously, a massive shift employment out agriculture, substantial urban growth in heretofore rural regions, and rapid increases rates labor migration. But very little is known about new livelihoods being forged or whereabouts these livelihoods. We draw on extensive primary data collected at two sites West Bengal Bihar, along with comprehensi...