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Elsevier
Alternative Published Date
2007
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Type of Resource:
Article
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
11pp
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Close inspection of the Scottish land reform leads to a series of questions about the relationship between land reform and community.
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Most land reforms have paid insufficient attention to community strengthening as an end in itself and are the weaker for it. Drawing on insights from community-based natural resource management and local development, we offer qualified evidence suggesting that, as in the current Scottish case, community-centric land reform has a promising future. We trace the pre-reform history of community buy-outs in Scotland and pose various issues that must be addressed if Scotland's land reform legislation is to succeed.
Land Use Policy, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 24-34
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