Articles Thématiques

Unruh, J., & Abdul‐Jalil, M. A. (2012, November). Land rights in Darfur: Institutional flexibility, policy and adaptation to environmental change. In Natural Resources Forum (Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 274-284). 27-10-2015

With environmental change set to affect the developing world in significant ways, examination of the process of adaptation is increasingly being brought to the fore. Common to all forms of adaptation in rural livelihoods will be a process of change in resource use and the resource rights that will either facilitate or subvert adaptation. This […]


Home, R. (2013). ‘Culturally Unsuited to Property Rights?’: Colonial Land Laws and African Societies. Journal of Law and Society, 40(3), 403-419. 27-10-2015

Hernando de Soto, advocate of central registers of land rights, raised the possibility of Africans being culturally unsuited to property rights. This article argues that sub-Saharan Africa’s high proportion of tribal/communal land (as distinguished from private and public/state land) results from a combination of geography, history, and population distribution. External colonial rule created a dual […]


Larson, A. M. (2013). Droits fonciers et accès aux forêts: Manuel de formation à l’intention des chercheurs. 27-10-2015

Le premier chapitre de ce manuel résume les principaux aspects des droits fonciers forestiers et de l’’accès aux ressources, en raison de leur pertinence pour la recherche sur les forêts, mais aussi à fournir des recommandations pour la sélection de méthodes et d’’outils en vue d’’obtenir les informations foncières utiles pour la recherche. Le second […]


Lunkapis, G. J. (2013). Confusion over land rights and development opportunities through communal titles in Sabah, Malaysia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 54(2), 198-205. 27-10-2015

Confusion over land rights issues and opportunities created through communal titles may just be rhetoric to some, but for the poor rural communities, it is a matter of survival. As this paper reveals, this may be due to contradictory interpretations between native communities and state agencies of what constitutes native customary rights. The methods and […]


Howitt, R., Doohan, K., Suchet‐Pearson, S., Cross, S., Lawrence, R., Lunkapis, G. J., … & Veland, S. (2013). Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 54(2), 126-140. 27-10-2015

Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management (NRM) systems in Australia and Malaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio-cultural, political–economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of […]