Land use conflicts in the developing countries: proximate driving forces and preventive measures

Habibullah Magsi, Andre Torre, Yansui Liu and Muhammad Muhammad Javed Sheikh
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Habibullah Magsi: Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam
Yansui Liu: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS,
Muhammad Muhammad Javed Sheikh: Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam

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Abstract: This research is aimed to analyse land use conflicts mainly caused by infrastructural development projects in the developing countries. For this purpose, qualitative data is gathered, which is repeatedly published on land use conflicts against the development related infrastructure projects in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan. It identifies and defines land use conflicts, their dynamic features and contestations. The results reveal as to how the conflicts have been germinated by the property and human right violators? Further, it also focuses on the governance roles and responsibilities, the institutional inconsistency towards justice, and the local population's mistrust in the respective case study areas. This analysis concludes with an overview of root causes and consequences of the land use conflicts, by indicating as to how land use decisions for infrastructural settings have changed rural economy, and induced local population to displace and oppose the projects. Finally, on the basis of the results, this article proposes some preventive measures to manage such conflicts.

Keywords: pakistan; proximity relation; developing country; conflit; foncier; conflict; infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Pakistan Development Review, 2017, 56 (1), pp.19-30

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