1st Edition
Property Rights and Economic Development Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1999. This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive impact on economic development. It is based on anthropological case studies of land and natural resource rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. These suggest that the economic impact of the formalisation... Read more
Introduction, 1. Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann: 'A Functional Analysis of Property Rights, with Special Reference to Indonesia', 2. Indira Juditka Simbolon: 'Caring for Toba Land and the Environment: What about the People?', 3. Herman Slaats: 'Land Titling and Customary Rights: Comparing Land Registration Projects in Thailand and Indonesia', 4. Willem G. Wolters: 'The Development of Property Rights to Land in the Philippines, 1850-1930', 5. Hartmut Holzknecht: 'Customary Property Rights and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea', 6. Anton Ploeg: 'Land Tenure and the Commercialisation of Agriculture in Papua New Guinea', 7. Leontine E. Visser: 'The Social Exchange of Land, Cloth, and Development in Irian Jaya', 8. Ad Borsboom: 'From Terra Nullius to Mabo: Land Rights and Self-Determination in Aboriginal Australia', 9. Eric Venbrux: 'A Glimpse of the Dreamtime: Property Rights and Tourism in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia', 10. Toon van Meijl: 'Settling Maori Land Claims: Legal and Economic Implications of Political and Ideological Contests', About the Contributors
Biography
Toon van Meijl is a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies of the University of Nijmegan, the Netherlands. Franz von Benda-Beckmann is Professor of Agrarian Law and Rural Development at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.
