The rangelands of the Mongolian Plateau are dynamic social-ecological systems that are influenced by a complex network of drivers, including climate, social institutions, market forces and broad scale policies affecting land tenure. These factors are linked via feedbacks and often exhibit non-linear relationships. The sustainability and resilience of rangelands in this region are dependent on t...

Modern cities represent one of the fastest growing ecosystems on the planet. Urbanization occurs in stages; each stage characterized by a distinct habitat that may be more or less susceptible to the establishment of disease vector populations and the transmission of vector-borne pathogens. We performed longitudinal entomological and epidemiological surveys in households along a 1900 × 125 m tra...

The sociology of knowledge can provide another tool for the scholar's workbench as he or she attempts to disclose the deeper meanings of an ancient document. Writers such as Peter Berger, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Luckmann, Karl Mannheim, and Alfred Schutz (note particularly the works cited in the bibliography} have outlined the ways in which people gather and transmit knowledge (or traditions), ...

A case study is presented describing how the South African national cadastral system was insufficient on its own to supply title security and land use control, with respect to newcomers to the city acquiring title in tribal areas. Land registration on its own, or even when accompanied with adjudication, does not necessarily deliver sustainable development. To ensure sustainable development, esp...

„The vision of a prosperous agriculturally based market economy in which increasingly diversified and commercially oriented small farmers with secure and exchangeable land rights, able not only to feed but also to remunerate themselves and their families while supplying [...] growing cities, generating local employment and national revenue, is powerful, attractive, motivating and valid. The que...

This Article describes the policies advanced by housing programs and shows where tension between the policies and programs exists. This Articles also attempts to organize and clarify the relationships among various goals of subsidized housing policy and the elements of programs adopted to meet them. The Article then proceeds by detailing eight possible objectives of subsidized housing and consi...

This study utilizes regression discontinuity to examine the long run impacts of the mita, an extensive forced mining labor system in effect in Peru and Bolivia between 1573 and 1812. Results indicate that a mita effect lowers household consumption by around one third in subjected districts today. Using data from the Spanish Empire and Peruvian Republic to trace channels of institutional persist...