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Journal articles on the topic "Land Use Act 1978"
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Ajabor, Ifeanyi, and ChukS Uwagboi. "AN APPRAISAL OF THE LAND USE ACT, 1978 AND THE CUSTOMARY SYSTEM OF TENURE IN IKA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF DELTA STATE, NIGERIA." Continental J. Arts and Humanities 7, no. 1 (2015): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1288844.
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Before the introduction of the Land Use Act, 1978, Land tenure system in Ika South Local Government Area involved in a situation where land was owned, governed and administered by the community, village or family but never owned by an individual. However The Land Use Act, 1978 came up with different rules vesting the ownership of land in the urban areas to the Governor and the non-urban areas to the chairman of the local government council. How can this new development be reconciled with the notion by the communities that land cannot be owned by an individual? What then happens to the existing rights in land after the promulgation of the Act? This work seeks to examine the constraints, if any, of The Land Use Act, 1978 as it affects customary land tenure. It concludes by recommending interalia that the Act should be reviewed taking into consideration the culture and values of the people.
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Makata, Innocent Franklin, and Nnamdi Alex Udobi. "Comparison of Land Use Act and Traditional Land Use." International Journal of Civil Engineering, Construction and Estate Management 12, no. 1 (2024): 70–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijcecem.14/vol12n17082.
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This study examines the land tenure system in Imilike, Udenu Local Government, South East Nigeria, with a focus on the customary land tenure system and its implications for land use, economic development, and social stability. The research reveals that the land tenure system in Imilike has undergone significant changes, including the sale of land, changes in inheritance patterns, and modifications to land pledging practices. The study also highlights the differences and similarities between the Land Use Act of 1978 and the land tenure system in Imilike, including government control, land allocation, and land registration. The findings of this study have important implications for land administration, conflict resolution, and sustainable development in Imilike and beyond. Recommendations include integrating traditional and modern institutions, recognizing customary rights, prioritizing sustainable land use, community engagement, and capacity building. Overall, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of land tenure systems in Nigeria and highlights the need for inclusive and effective land administration systems.
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OMORODION, JOSEPH, ALEXANDER NNAMDI UDOBI, and CHIEMEZIE CHISOM NWOSU. "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BENIN CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE SYSTEM AND THE LAND USE ACT OF 1978." International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH) 10, no. 3 (2023): 221–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8343912.
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<strong>Abstract:</strong> The intricate notion of land ownership and possession in the present era significantly diverges from what was typically observed within the traditional Benin Community—an intriguing variation that emanates from the beliefs and idiosyncrasies deeply ingrained within the Benin populace. This particular investigative analysis endeavors to meticulously examine and intricately compare the Benin customary land tenure system with the renowned Land Use Act of 1978—a harmonious fusion of theory and practice. By employing a supremely judicious doctrinal approach, this comprehensive and scholarly study ardently pursues to astutely ascertain whether the land use Act wholeheartedly eradicated the provisions that were profoundly entrenched within the Benin customary land tenure System—an inquiry brimming with anticipation. Astonishingly, the findings that conspicuously come to fruition vividly indicate that despite the audacious implementation of the Land Use Act, the resilient bonds and age-old traditions of the Benin community continue to exert their dominance, thereby conferring upon them their inalienable rights to the cherished and highly coveted use and dominion over land—a testament to their resolute endurance. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that the malicious grip of the Land Use Act has, in fact, mercilessly wrested away from individuals or thriving communities their erstwhile unquestionable claims of absolute ownership and instead imposed upon them a significantly humbler right of occupancy—a transformation that unequivocally signifies a seismic shift within this captivating continuum. <strong>Keywords:</strong> Comparative, Analysis, Benin, Customary, Land Tenure, Land Use Act. <strong>Title:</strong> A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BENIN CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE SYSTEM AND THE LAND USE ACT OF 1978 <strong>Author:</strong> OMORODION JOSEPH, UDOBI ALEXANDER NNAMDI, NWOSU CHIEMEZIE CHISOM <strong>International Journal of Recent Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IJRRSSH)</strong> <strong>ISSN 2349-7831</strong> <strong>Vol. 10, Issue 3, July 2023 - September 2023</strong> <strong>Page No: 221-230</strong> <strong>Paper Publications</strong> <strong>Website: www.paperpublications.org</strong> <strong>Published Date: 14-September-2023</strong> <strong>DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8343912</strong> <strong>Paper Download Link (Source)</strong> <strong>https://www.paperpublications.org/upload/book/A%20COMPARATIVE%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20THE%20BENIN-14092023-1.pdf</strong>
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Ako, Rhuks T. "Nigeria's Land Use Act: An Anti-Thesis to Environmental Justice." Journal of African Law 53, no. 2 (2009): 289–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855309990076.
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AbstractNigeria's Land Use Act, promulgated in 1978, is perhaps the most controversial legislation in the country. The Act, originally promulgated as a decree and annexed to the country's constitution, was ostensibly made to nationalize landholding in the country. However, the peculiar impact of the Act on the inhabitants of the Niger Delta region that hosts upstream activities of the oil industry has led to assertions that the Act was made specifically to deprive those inhabitants of the right to participate actively in the oil industry. This article examines the impact of the Act on the right of inhabitants to access justice. It argues that the Act obstructs their rights to environmental justice and is a fundamental cause of the violent conflicts that pervade the region.
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Umekesiobi, G. C., and A. N. Udobi. "An Examination of the Divergences between the Traditional Land Holding System in Uga Anambra State and the Land Use Act of 1978." International Journal of Real Estate 1, no. 2 (2025): 56–77. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15320502.
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This study explored the differences between the customary landholding system in Uga, Anambra State, and the Land Use Act of 1978, which highlights the intricacies of land ownership and use in Nigeria. The customary system is marked by communal ownership under customary law, which prioritizes lineage, inheritance, and group decision, processes that have been honed over centuries. On the other hand, nationalization of land ownership according to the Land Use Act gives power to the state and imposes formalized processes that often conflict with local culture. The overarching objective of this research is to analyze the implications of such divergence for land tenure security, agricultural productivity, and community relations. A quantitative and qualitative research methodology was employed for empirical data collection from 200 participants, i.e., farmers, landowners, community leaders, and citizens, using a structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews. Results indicate huge differences regarding ownership rights, transfer process of land, and conflict resolution between both systems, creating general land tenure insecurity and socio-economic problems. The research concludes that although the Land Use Act was promulgated to establish land administration, it inadvertently works against customary practice, heightening tensions between the government and local communities. The research therefore advises legal reforms that acknowledge customary rights, create awareness of statutory law among members of a community, provide inclusive mechanisms for conflict resolution, and encourage sustainable agricultural practices that integrate traditional knowledge. These proposals seek to promote a more peaceful and equitable type of land tenure for sustainable development in Uga, Anambra State.
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Otu, Michael Takim, and Joseph Edet. "The Status of Customary Tenants in Relation to Land Held by Him: An Overview of Customary Law." International Journal of Law and Society (IJLS) 2, no. 1 (2023): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.59683/ijls.v2i1.34.
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The article seeks to examine the effects of the Land Use Act of 1978 on the customary system of land holding in Nigeria. Since the birth of the Act, the problem facing our courts, ordinary people and lawyers is determining the actual position of customary tenants under the system of property rights introduced by the Law. The empirical legal research method used in this study is a type of qualitative research. This method focuses on cases in the community using legal studies, while the scope of this research is the Land Use Act 1978 against the customary land tenure system in Nigeria. The results of the discussion made it clear that the Laws on Land Use and Customary Land Owners have much in common. As such, the controversies generated by these issues continue to defy consensus among our academic "egg heads" as well as learned judges in our courts. Indeed, many court decisions appear to indicate that the courts have not settled the controversy on this issue. As a result, the judicial confusion for Nigerian means of conveyance continues to this day.
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Agbosu, L. K. "The Land Use Act and the State of Nigerian Land Law." Journal of African Law 32, no. 1 (1988): 1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300010202.
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The Land Use Act, 1978, is a product of the inherent contradictions of the colonial and neo-colonial dependent, pseudo-capitalist economic structures established in Nigeria since colonial times. By the 1970s these contradictions became so seŕious that they threatened to become a clog on the growth of the capitalist economy. If such contradictions were allowed to reach a nodal point, conditions for the self-negation of the existing socio-economic and legal order would have ensued. The legislature, it would seem, narrowly identified the problem with private ownership of lands from its own class perspective, that is without a scientific conception of the problems in terms of ownership in the theory of social relations. A scientific conception of the problems would have revealed the essence of the difficulties as relating, not merely to the procedural aspects of private ownership of the lands, such as certainty of title, registration of title, etc., but concerning the institution of private ownership as an economic and legal category around which the exploitation of man by man is organised in class-divided societies.Such a scientific perception of the problems would have demanded a lasting solution that not only abolished private ownership rights in land but also abolished private ownership of other means of production. The socialisation of all means of production would have amounted to a holistic approach to the solution of the problems in the interest of the nation as a whole.
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C. S., Okafor,, and Udobi, N. A. "An Analysis of the Difference Between Traditional Land Tenure Systems and the Land Use Act, No 6 of 1978, Nigeria." Journal of Advanced Research and Multidisciplinary Studies 4, no. 3 (2024): 90–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/jarms-ubb0ospq.
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Land tenure systems are important aspect of any society and the very soul through which societies and countries advance in civilization as they define the manner in which land is held and managed in a society. Even though traditional land tenure systems and customary land tenure systems existed before now, the promulgation of the Land Use Act introduced a new system of land ownership which repealed every other existing laws and introduced uniformity in the land ownership systems as practicable across the country. This paper examines the traditional land tenure systems applicable in Igbakwu community, Ayamelum Local Government Area, of Anambra State together with the practicable general land tenure systems of the South East Zone, Nigeria while comparing it with the Land Use Act, 1978. The major aim of the paper is to analyse the difference between traditional land tenure system and the Land Use Act, No 6 of 1978 while enumerating the salient points obtainable in both systems. Members of clans and villages were interviewed while secondary data was obtained from textbooks and journals. Recommendation includes revision of the existing laws through consultations with professionals to reach a consensus and prevent the law from veering off its original objectives. The study however highlights the need for a more probable tenure system to tackle land distribution due to increase in population.
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Derri, Damfebo K., and Josephine Nkeonye Egemonu. "Impact of the Land Use Act on Land Tenural System in Nigeria." American Journal of Law 4, no. 2 (2022): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ajl.1226.
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Purpose: Before the advent of the Land Use Act in 1978, individuals, families and communities owned land absolutely according to customary law. Thus, the family or community was free to give out their land to deserving members of the family or community or even to outsiders as the case may be. Where an individual was the absolute owner of the land, he was free to deal with it in any manner he liked. Therefore, the individual, family or community exercised all incidents of ownership without restrictions. All these were altered when the Land Use Act was promulgated. The extent to which this Act affected the existing land tenural system in Nigeria is discussed in this article. This article critically analyses the land tenure system under both conventional land law and customary land tenure in Nigeria.
 Methodology: Applying doctrinal research methodology, it uses some available resources in some Nigerian libraries, both online and offline.
 Findings: It concluded that the provisions of the Land Use Act have severe consequences on land tenural system in Nigeria.
 Recommendations: In view of the challenges highlighted in the Act, this article recommends among other things that the State Governors need to improve and quicken the process of issuing certificates of occupancy and payment of adequate compensation after revocation of tittle to land to forestall unnecessary litigation and that there should be a land reform that recognizes the rights of individuals or communities to land either freehold (indefinite absolutely) or for a relatively long-term duration. This will ensure a genuine free market economy.
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Oshio, P. Ehi. "The Land Use Act and the Institution of Family Property in Nigeria." Journal of African Law 34, no. 2 (1990): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300008238.
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The Land Use Act, 1978 is, indeed, a “giant-killer”. In the recent case of Savannah Bank of Nigeria Limited and Another v. Ammel Ajilo and Another a learned Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria seized the opportunity to indict a doyen of the Nigerian Bar for a seeming misapprehension of the revolutionary effect of the Act on the land tenurial system of the country. But we hasten to point out that the Act is not the problem child only of the Bar, for the Bench is not free from the same misapprehension for which this learned gentleman of the Bar was indicted. Indeed, there is mounting evidence from the conflicting opinions of our courts on the Act that the latter is the “Achilles' heel” also of the Bench. One glaring instance: while the Supreme Court in recognition of group holdings under customary law conceded communal title to a right of occupancy under the Act to a community in the case of Chief S.U. Ojeme and Others v. His Highness Momodu II and Others the Court of Appeal expressed the contrary view in the subsequent case of L.S.D.P.C. and Others v.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Land Use Act 1978"
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Warner, Samuel J. L. "The politics of depoliticisation : reassessing the Industrial Relations Act 1971." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8286/.
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This thesis investigates the British state’s approach to industrial relations reform which culminated in the Industrial Relations Act 1971. It highlights the intention of state managers to reconfigure the relationship between the state, capital and labour. The Act represents an attempt to discipline the latter through a reliance on the ostensibly independent nature of the law, thus curtailing the militant tendencies associated with trade unions. While there is a large secondary literature on the Act, there is as yet no analysis based on the study of primary documents (Cabinet, Department of Employment, Prime Minister’s Office and Treasury). The central argument of the thesis is that, contrary to orthodoxy, the Act was adopted as a way of ‘depoliticising’ the management of industrial relations in an effort to shield government from the unpopular electoral consequences of reform. Drawing on an Open Marxist perspective that sees the state as a social form, the thesis uses the framework offered by the depoliticisation literature to consider not only why the Act failed, but also what inferences can be drawn regarding the fragility of this approach to governing. In this way, the thesis contributes to debates surrounding the limitations of depoliticised governing in capitalist society.
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Thorne, Noel R. "Integrated Resort Development Act : a study of the impact of the Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 on Queensland's planning systems." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1991. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36256/1/36256_Thorne_1991.pdf.
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Differential operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) has proved to offer superior positioning accuracy over unaided GPS. The nature of Differential GPS (DGPS) requires correction data to be sent from a reference station or a network of reference stations to the GPS
user in the field. Since it cannot be assumed that the GPS user is close to a telephone or data line, wireless communications technologies must be used to provide the GPS user with DGPS corrections. As very little crossover work has been done between the GPS experts
and the data communications experts, there is a real need for a single source of reference which brings together information on these fields and others which relate to DGPS service provision. The thesis reviews the communications options available for the broadcast of DGPS corrections, reviews the DGPS technologies available, and dimensions a DGPS system which would provide an easily-accessible and affordable DGPS service to GPS users anywhere in Australia. The dimensioned DGPS system is analysed in order to determine the positioning accuracies afforded by that system.
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Lane, Jacqueline Ann. "A watershed decade in British industrial relations, 1965 to 1974? : the Donovan Commission Report, 'In Place of Strife', and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34157/.
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The Donovan Report (1965-1968) is often seen as one of the great failures in the overall attempt to deal with the thorny problem of the contentious nature of industrial relations in post-war Britain. This thesis re-examines that report and subsequent governmental responses, using numerous sources, many of which have barely been used by previous authors, in order to establish where it all went wrong. Such an examination is important to inform future governments on some of the problems of trying to legislate on industrial relations matters. This thesis addresses the central question addressed by the Report – the validity of employing legislation to deal with the problems within industrial relations, asking what contribution had legislation made to the ordering of industrial relations in the past, and what lessons future governments could take from that? Why did both the Labour Governments under Harold Wilson and the Conservative Government under Edward Heath choose to go beyond Donovan in their attempts to alter the role of the state in industrial relations Finally, could the Industrial Relations Act 1971, had it survived, have been to the benefit of trade unions in time? This thesis suggests that legislation had an important role to play in the ordering of industrial relations, and that collective bargaining alone, although effective in many areas, was unable to address issues which had wider implications, such as those relating to health and safety or the reconciliation of differences due to the laws’ interference with trade unions’ rights to defend their members and their own collective rights. Both the Labour and Conservative Governments chose to go beyond the measures proposed by Donovan because economic and political necessity demanded a greater measure of control over strike action. However, the inquiry had undoubtedly focused the debate on whether or not legislation could ever be the most appropriate tool for controlling industrial relations, and therefore acted as a catalyst for the reforms that followed. The Industrial Relations Act 1971 failed to bring about the hoped-for industrial peace. Its repeal in 1974, however, did nothing to prevent further rises in strikes after 1974. Piecemeal legislation in the 1980s and 1990s did bring about a greater level of industrial peace, but this suggests that it was not legislation per se that was the wrong strategy for controlling industrial relations, but rather the method and pace of implementation. Other means of maintaining industrial peace were experimented with and could have been successful if the political will had been there and the unions and employers had engaged more fully,but the seeds had been sown for legislative control and it was impossible to hold back the tide of restrictive legislation which followed these early forays into the concept of law as a means of controlling industrial relations. The Donovan Report did indeed represent the thin end of the legal wedge and opened the floodgates to the many enactments designed to control and emasculate the trade union movement which the Conservative governments of the 1980s and early 1990s were able to introduce. The collective failures of the Donovan Report, In Place of Strife and the Industrial Relations Act to bring about industrial peace were, however, only indicative that legislation was not the most appropriate means of achieving this goal at this particular point in time. Alternative attempts to reduce strikes and engage trade unions in closer working relationships with employers and their associations, and with the government, did meet with some success in the 1970s and may be usefully attempted again in the future. This will, however, depend on whether government is able to keep an open mind on the utility, or perhaps futility, of legislative controls such as those attempted in the years between 1965 and 1975.
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Zawacki, Theresa M. "The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=1055176087.
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Chan, Wing-wai Jeannette. "A study of factors influencing residential land price in Hong Kong (1978-1988)." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13064940.
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Gnagey, Matthew K. "Three Essays on Residential Land Prices, and Land Use Patterns and Regulations." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405350896.
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ZAWACKI, THERESA MARIE. "THE RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT: LESSONS FOR PLANNERS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1055176087.
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Modum, Uche Ifeoma. "Legal reform of the Land Use Act : protection of private property rights to land in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/legal-reform-of-the-land-use-act-protection-of-private-property-rights-to-land-in-nigeria(c4445757-7efd-489b-a16e-9ed7b5e244ff).html.
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Strong private property rights to land are recognised as fundamental to the economic growth of a country's legal system. Legal reform of inadequate and inefficient property rights laws is therefore essential. My thesis aims to address the lack of legal reform of the laws governing property rights to land in Nigeria. It does this by critically examining the Land Use Act set up as the primary body of legislation governing property rights in Nigeria.The thesis seeks to offer meaningful insights by proposing an institutional analysis of the limitations to reform of existing laws governing property rights to land in Nigeria. Several approaches of new institutionalism are explored in analysing identified constraints which exist within formal and informal institutions. Explanations of the absence of legal reform are addressed through themes examining formal and informal institutional structures which limit reform. Analyses of institutional structures highlight the significant role played by institutions in the etablishment and development of property right laws in Nigeria. An in-depth look at Nigerian private property laws and legally recognised interests on land exposes fundamental limitations to private property rights protection of individuals within the Nigerian state. The thesis provides valuable insights and addresses institutional limitations through consideration of strategies which would enable and assist legal reform of Nigeria's property rights laws. The study concludes by exploring three aspects. First, it offers reform proposals and analyses the functionality of the proposed reform suggestions. Second, it highlights principles of policy-making redesign within formal institutions. Finally, it offers strategies to assist reform within informal instituional structures.In short, the thesis focuses on enabling legal reform of Nigerian property rights laws to ensure the amendment, modification or excision of bad, inefficient laws in order to offer better protection of individuals' property rights to land.
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Lin, Xinfa. "An evaluation of the three periods of China's FDI development, 1978-2000." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2007. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8429/.
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This thesis explores the impact of the fundamental changes in China's FDI related policy, on the development of Western inward FDI in the country. To achieve this, this study, first of all, establishes a definition of the fundamental changes, then divide FDI in China into the different development periods based on the definition, and finally evaluate the fundamental changes in terms of why and how they take place, and what their impact is on FDI development periods. The research covers the duration from 1978 until 2000, when FDI in China experiences three different periods led by three fundamental policy changes respectively: (a) in 1978, China made a historical decision: permitting western FDI to the country, to replace its long-pursued traditional strategy of "self-reliance"; (b) in 1986, China started to adopt a new approach to deal with western FDI, which is promoting FDI, instead of permitting it; and (c) from 1995, the Chinese government adjusted FDI policies according to its economic development strategies and international practice. This shift indicated that China moved from FDI promotion to FDI management. Each fundamental policy change brings China into a particular FDI development period. Looking at these three fundamental changes together, the shift from one change to the next, would provide an overall and consistent picture of China's FDI development periods between 1978 and 2000. In addition, this research explores the root cause for three fundamental policy changes by looking at China's approach to western FDI. The Chinese special approach to FDI is discussed by comparing it with the world generally accepted approaches to FDI in terms of: (a) What is FDI - a definition of FDI. In this section, the world dominant definition of FDI is reviewed and discussed, and China's view on defining FDI is introduced; (b) Why does FDI take place - the theory of FDI. In this part, established FDI theories are examined, ranging from Marxist approach, and the Neoclassical Paradigm, to generally accepted theories of FDI, including Theory of Monopolistic Advantages, Theory of Product Cycle, Kiyoshi Kojima Thesis of Japanese Model of FDI, The Internalisation Theory, and Eclectic Theory of International Production; China's explanation for western FDI in China is given; and (c) How does FDI take place - the form of FDI. This section reviews the worldwide principal forms of FDI, and then looks at how the form of FDI is developed in the country. Moreover, the relationship between the movement of different periods of China's FDI and the development of China's approach to FDI practice is examined. This thesis therefore concludes that it is Chinese special approach to western FDI which generates fundamental changes of China's FDI policies, then turns FDI in China from one period to the next.
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Chan, Wing-wai Jeannette, and 陳永慧. "A study of factors influencing residential land price in Hong Kong (1978-1988)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31979695.
Full textBooks on the topic "Land Use Act 1978"
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United States. Bureau of Land Management. Las Vegas Field Office. Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act: 10-year report to Congress : SNPLMA 1998-2008. Bureau of Land Management, Las Vegas Field Office, 2008.
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Goetz, Edward G. The affordable housing legacy of the 1976 Land Use Planning Act. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2002.
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Aboki, Yusuf U. Law and society: The Land Use Act (1978) as a catalyst for food security, protector of health, provider of good environment. Department of Public Law, 2008.
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Malaysia. National Land Code: Act no. 56 of 1965 : with relevant subsidiary legislation, as at 14 May 1998. Malayan Law Journal Sdn. Bhd., 1998.
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Schwartz, Eleanor R. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 as amended. [Bureau of Land Management, Office of Public Affairs], 2016.
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Resources, United States Congress Senate Committee on Energy and Natural. Michigan Public Lands Improvement Act of 1988: Report (to accompany H.R. 4375). U.S. G.P.O., 1988.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Michigan Public Lands Improvement Act of 1988: Report (to accompany H.R. 4375). U.S. G.P.O., 1988.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Michigan Public Lands Improvement Act of 1988: Report (to accompany H.R. 4375). U.S. G.P.O., 1988.
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Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Clean and green: Staff analysis of the Pennsylvania Farmland and Forest Land Assessment Act of 1974. Joint State Government Commission, 1997.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Eastern Wilderness Act of 1998: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 1567) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1998.
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Beasley, Lamar. "Resources Planning Act-The Forest Service Planning Umbrella." In Land Use Planning Techniques and Policies. Soil Science Society of America, and American Society of Agronomy, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaspecpub12.c6.
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Verschuuren, Jonathan. "Effectiveness of Nature Protection Legislation in the European Union and the United States: The Habitats Directive and the Endangered Species Act." In Cultural Landscapes and Land Use. Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2105-4_4.
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Havel, Małgorzata Barbara, and Tomasz Zaborowski. "Land Policy in Poland: Evolution of the Liberalisation of Urban Planning and Policy Making." In Land Policies in Europe. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83725-8_10.
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Abstract The post-communist period in Poland has been characterised by extensive liberalisation of spatial planning and a lack of coherent land policy. In recent years, the state has attempted to address problems arising from this liberalisation, but paradoxically, instead of strengthening the planning system and establishing a coherent land policy, it has further complicated the system by enacting various lex specialis—laws that take precedence over general planning regulations. Among these, the special Housing Act which aimed at facilitating housing development, has been particularly contested by the planning community. This act permits exceptions to established land use plans, but also imposes requirements on developers, particularly concerning the provision of urban infrastructure, which were previously non-existent. Additionally, the act has introduced the possibility of negotiations between municipalities and the developers. This chapter examines a case of successful application of the act, demonstrating its potential to foster housing development alongside the provision of public infrastructure. The case exemplifies the evolution of planning liberalisation and the reactive land policy at the municipal level.
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Pansak, Wanwisa, Natta Takrattanasaran, Nuntapon Nongharnpitak, and Nuttapon Khongdee. "Soil-Related Laws in Thailand." In International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2022. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40609-6_10.
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AbstractRapid economic development and urbanization are changing land management systems in many countries, including Thailand, and climate change has emerged as a significant source of risks. These changes are having major impacts on the status of soil resources in Thailand. Therefore, the soils are under increasing pressure of intensification leading to soil degradation including erosion, contamination, the decline in nutrients, compaction, salinization, acidification, and biodiversity loss of soils. Therefore, sustainable soil management is important for maintaining the capacity of soil to function according to its potential and management strategies, which is essential for the maintenance of human well-being and the conservation of biodiversity. In addition, any assessment of soil threats, measures against soil threats, and their effects on soil functions and ecosystem services should consider local conditions, national and global strategies e.g. biophysical characteristics, economic society, policies, and laws. In Thailand, soil and land protection are regulated by legislation and land use planning document such as the Forest Act and the National Forest Act, the Law on Environmental Protection, the Law on Land Protection, and the Law on Agricultural Land. Land use planning regulations represent the basis for supervision of the land use of all types and purposes and the management of natural resources, implementing guidelines for space preservation and protection, and measures of sustainable use of land resources. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to determine the status of sustainable soil management efforts and raise awareness of soil in Thailand.
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Adisa, Waziri Babatunde. "Land Use Policy and Urban Sprawl in Nigeria." In Handbook of Research on Environmental Policies for Emergency Management and Public Safety. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3194-4.ch014.
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Land use policy is central to the development of urban life and the emergence of cities. In many developed capitalist societies, both the planning and expansion of the cities are usually anchored on sustainable urban land policies such that the growth of urban sprawl is effectively controlled. In most developing countries, land use policies are not only disparate, they are usually not connected to the growth of cities because policy makers are after the money they could make from private investors. This chapter argues that though the coming of the Land Use Act 1978 ended the era of disparate land law regimes, it has, over the years, sealed the control of urban lands to state governors, a development that has created massive corruption and arbitrariness in the allocation and utilization of urban lands. This approach to land administration has also hindered effective and sustainable urban and regional planning in many Nigerian cities. This study suggests the review of the 1978 Land Use Act and effective utilization of modern technologies in the monitoring of urban sprawls.
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Adisa, Waziri Babatunde. "Land Use Policy and Urban Sprawl in Nigeria." In Megacities and Rapid Urbanization. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch016.
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Land use policy is central to the development of urban life and the emergence of cities. In many developed capitalist societies, both the planning and expansion of the cities are usually anchored on sustainable urban land policies such that the growth of urban sprawl is effectively controlled. In most developing countries, land use policies are not only disparate, they are usually not connected to the growth of cities because policy makers are after the money they could make from private investors. This chapter argues that though the coming of the Land Use Act 1978 ended the era of disparate land law regimes, it has, over the years, sealed the control of urban lands to state governors, a development that has created massive corruption and arbitrariness in the allocation and utilization of urban lands. This approach to land administration has also hindered effective and sustainable urban and regional planning in many Nigerian cities. This study suggests the review of the 1978 Land Use Act and effective utilization of modern technologies in the monitoring of urban sprawls.
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Bowes, Ashley. "Definition of Development 2: Material Change of Use." In A Practical Approach to Planning Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198833253.003.0006.
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The term ‘material change of use’ is not defined in the 1990 Act. Its meaning has to be ascertained, therefore, by reference to the many cases in which the courts have had to consider its significance. In Parkes v Secretary of State for the Environment [1978] 1 WLR 1308 (CA), Lord Denning MR said that ‘operations’ comprised activities which resulted in some physical alteration to the land, which had some degree of permanence to the land itself; whereas ‘use’ comprised activities which are done in, alongside, or on the land but which did not interfere with the actual physical characteristics of the land. Accordingly, he held that, for the purposes of serving a discontinuance order under what is now s 102 of the 1990 Act, the sorting, processing, and disposal of scrap materials was a ‘use’ of land.
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Leshy, John D. "Making the Modern Bureau of Land Management." In Our Common Ground. Yale University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300235784.003.0054.
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This chapter traces the developments leading to the formation of the modern Bureau of Land Management (BLM) across multiple presidencies. At the time, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations enthusiastically supported revamping how the BLM was to manage the public lands under its care. Here, the chapter introduces the Public Land Law Review Commission (PLLRC), which studies and recommends reforms in the nation's laws dealing with public lands (other than military lands and those in the national park system). It also takes a look at the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, or FLPMA, which incorporated many of the PLLRC's recommendations. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act began with a policy declaration once again reaffirming that public lands managed by the BLM “be retained in Federal ownership,” except under very narrow circumstances. It directed that BLM-managed public lands be managed on a “multiple use” and “sustained yield” basis. The 1979 “sagebrush rebellion” and subsequent developments in the West are also covered.
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Alexander, Earl B., Roger G. Coleman, Todd Keeler-Wolfe, and Susan P. Harrison. "Serpentine Land Use and Health Concerns." In Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195165081.003.0030.
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Soils developed from serpentine (ultramafic) substrates are noted for their meager and strange biomass. The chemical infertility is the main controlling factor in the development of plants in serpentine soils (Proctor and Woodell 1975, Kruckeberg 1984, Brooks 1987). Botanists have recognized the unusual nature of the endemic plants and this has led to preserving serpentine tracts that contain rare plant species. The evolution of plant species that are restricted to serpentine has produced remarkable adaptations to survival on serpentine substrates. Kruckeberg (1984) pointed out that the long-term habitat attrition on these rare natural serpentine ecosystems requires conservation initiatives to insure their preservation. In California, private and public land managers are required to develop environmental impact studies before disturbing tracts containing serpentine bedrock and its overlying soils (Clinkenbeard et al. 2003). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS 1998) carried out a recovery plan for 28 species of plants and animals that occur exclusively or primarily on serpentine soils and grasslands in the San Francisco Bay area. The strategy was to provide detailed actions needed to achieve self-sustaining populations of endangered species so they will no longer require protection under the Endangered Species Act. Serpentine land tracts within metropolitan areas have come under closer regulation, as there is concern of releasing naturally occurring asbestos during construction disturbances. Typical examples of disturbance would be construction sites, new road construction, and quarry excavation. Of particular concern are the large amounts of dust produced in quarry operations or unpaved gravel roads consisting of crushed serpentine rock. The dust from such sites may contain airborne asbestos fibers released from the serpentine. This asbestos-bearing dust may pose a toxic threat to the construction workers and to later occupants of homes, schools, and office buildings occupying serpentine tracts. Asbestos is the blanket term for a group of naturally occurring silicate minerals that can be separated into fibers. The fibers are strong, durable, and resistant to extreme heat. Because of these qualities, asbestos has been used in industrial, maritime, automotive, scientific, and building products.
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McFarlane, Ben, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield. "1. What is Land Law?" In Land Law. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198831877.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the reader to land law and explains why land law is studied at all. It also tackles three fundamental questions that are used to understand and structure the often complex rules encountered in land law: the content, acquisition, and defences questions. Three specific case law examples are discussed: National Provincial Bank v Ainsworth (1965), Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland (1981), and City of London Building Society v Flegg (1988). Other topics covered in this chapter include: the importance of the statutory framework established by the Law of Property Act 1925 and the Land Registration Act 2002; the focus of land law on private rights to use land; the key distinction between personal rights and property rights; the importance of equitable rules and of statute in shaping land law; and the key role played by land registration in modern land law.
Conference papers on the topic "Land Use Act 1978"
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Spencer, C. B. "Report of Testing of TT-P-28 High Temperature Aluminum Paint Candidate Replacements." In CORROSION 1992. NACE International, 1992. https://doi.org/10.5006/c1992-92464.
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Abstract In response to the Clean Air Act of 1990 the Navy initiated evaluations of candidate replacements for specific military paints. This paper describes the physical and performance testing, per military specification, of three VOC compliant replacement high temperature paints. Through the use of American Society of Testing of Materials standard methods, the paint performance is rated for comparison. Naval applications and problems with the present paint systems are reviewed. The performance of a land based test used to simulate service conditions is discussed. Based on the results of the evaluation, it is concluded that none of the paints tested met all the requirements of the revised specification. As an interim VOC compliant high temperature coating, it was judged that the TT-P-28 paint reformulated for high solids content and VOC compliance would give the best overall high temperature /corrosion performance. However, baking is still required to attain full hardness and optimum properties. Therefore, it is recommended that additional samples of candidate high temperature paints be procured to find a VOC compliant air drying paint with equivalent/superior corrosion protection characteristics.
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Singh, Anup. "Past, Present and Future of Combined Cycle Power Plants: From an A/E’s Perspective." In ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2001-gt-0503.
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In the 1970s, power generation from gas turbines was minimal. Gas turbines in those days were run on fuel oil, since there was a so-called “natural gas shortage”. The U.S. Fuel Use Act of 1978 essentially disallowed the use of natural gas for power generation. Hence there was no incentive on the part of gas turbine manufacturers to invest in the development of gas turbine technology. There were many regulatory developments in the 1980s and 1990s, which led to the rapid growth in power generation from gas turbines. These developments included Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 (encouraging cogeneration), FERC Order 636 (deregulating natural gas industry), Energy Policy Act of 1992 (creating EWGs and IPPs) and FERC Order 888 (open access to electrical transmission system). There was also a backlash from excessive electric rates due to high capital recovery of nuclear and coal-fired plant costs caused by tremendous cost increase resulting from tightening NRC requirements for nuclear plants and significant SO2/NOx/other emissions controls required for coal-fired plants. During this period, rapid technology developments took place in the metallurgy, design, efficiency, and reliability of gas turbines. In addition, U.S. DOE contributed to these developments by encouraging research and development efforts in high temperature and high efficiency gas turbines. Today we are seeing a tremendous explosion of power generating facilities by electric utilities and Independent Power Producers (IPPs). A few years ago, Merchant Power (generation without power purchase agreements) was unheard of. Today it is growing at a very fast pace. Can this rapid growth be sustained? The paper will explore the factors that will play a significant role in the future growth of gas turbine-based power generation in the U.S. The paper will also discuss the methods and developments that could decrease the capital costs of gas turbine power plants resulting in the lowest cost generation compared to other power generation technologies.
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Fatai Ogunbayo, Babatunde, Clinton Aigbavboa, Didi Thwala, Opeoluwa Akinradewo, and Olusegun Oguntona. "Institutional Evaluation of Public and Private Partnerships Relevant Contributions to Housing Delivery System." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002374.
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Housing provision through institutional contributions has helped Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) provide a sustainable strategy for promoting and accelerating housing development for national development and growth. This study aimed to evaluate the relevant contribution of institutions involved in the PPPs housing delivery system using Lagos State, Nigeria as a case study. A systematic random sampling method was used, and questionnaires were distributed to 124 professionals in government and private institutions that participate in the PPPs housing delivery system. The result indicated that the relevant contribution of the public institution is majorly land and site and services, while its fragility includes bad administration, lacking a good financial base, and capacity to absorb risk factors. On the other hand, a private institution provides a good financial base, equipment, labour, and plant with good management responsibility and ready to absorb risk. While factors such as unstable government policy and economic conditions affect private institutions in the PPPs housing delivery system. The study recommended that for public and private institutions to annex the benefit of contributing to the PPPs housing delivery system, the government needs to repeal the present act of law such as the 1978 land use act through an act of legislation, in order to provide easy access to land for investors and to improve on its site and services by making necessary provision like access road, electricity, drainage, good layout drawing early before the commencement of future PPPs housing project.
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Lai, Mark K., Robert S. Reynolds, and Jeffrey Armstrong. "CFD-Based, Parametric, Design Tool for Gas Turbine Combustors From Compressor Deswirl Exit to Turbine Inlet." In ASME Turbo Expo 2002: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2002-30090.
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Since 1998, the Honeywell Engines & Systems, Combustion & Emissions Group has been developing an advanced, CFD-based, parametric, detailed design-by-analysis tool for gas turbine combustors called Advanced Combustion Tools (ACT). ACT solves the entire flow regime from the compressor deswirl exit to the turbine stator inlet, and can be used for combustor diagnostics, design, and development. ACT is applicable to can, through-flow, and reverse-flow combustors, and accommodates features unique to different combustor designs. The main features of ACT are: 1. Reduction of Analysis Cycle Time: Geometry modeling and grid generation are fully parametric and modular, using an inhouse feature-based technology. Each geometrical feature can be deleted, replaced, added, and modified easily, quickly, and efficiently. 2. Elimination of Inter-Feature Boundary Assumptions: All the complex combustor features, such as wall cooling configuration, details of the air swirler assemblies and fuel atomizer systems, dome-shroud/cowl wall, and splash cooling plate, are considered and fully coupled into the CFD calculations. This allows the plenum and annulus aerodynamics to interact directly with the combustor internal flow. 3. Ease of Use: To reduce setup time and errors and to facilitate parametric studies, ACT is highly customized for engineers. 4. Accurate and Efficient CFD Solutions: Advanced physical submodels of combustion and spray have been implemented. This paper provides an overview and development experiences of ACT. Application of ACT to a through-flow combustor system is presented to illustrate the approach as applied to real-world combustors. Validation of the ACT system, by comparison to test cell data, is in-progress and will be the subject of a future paper.
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Rojas, Michael J., and John P. Vrsalovich. "Exploring the Water/Energy Nexus: Developing a Unified Approach to Water and Energy Issues in California." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-64855.
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Metropolitan Water District (Metropolitan) is a public agency charged with providing its service area with adequate and sufficient supplies of high quality water. Metropolitan was incorporated in 1928 by an Act of the California Legislature to serve its 13 original founding Member Agencies. Today, Metropolitan provides water to 26 cities and water agencies serving more than 19 million people in six counties in Southern California. On average Metropolitan delivers 1.7 billion gallons of water per day. California, the third-largest state in the U.S. by land area, has a diverse geography including foggy coastal areas, alpine mountain ranges, hot and arid deserts, and a fertile central valley. California is also the most populous state, exceeding 37 million people in 2010. California’s large population drives the interlinked demands for water and energy in the state. The water-energy nexus in California is highlighted by the fact that two-thirds of the population resides in Southern California while two-thirds of the state’s precipitation occurs in Northern California. Separating Southern California from the rest of the state is a series of east-west trending mountain ranges. Water conveyance projects have been constructed to address this north-south water imbalance and to also import supplies from the Colorado River, hundreds of miles east of Southern California population centers. The movement of water on this scale requires significant energy resources. The California Energy Commission (CEC) estimates that water-related energy use consumes 19% of the state’s electricity and 30% of its natural gas usage every year, and demand is growing. Energy management is a critical concern to Metropolitan and other California water agencies. These issues drive water and energy leaders to jointly manage energy and water use to ensure long-term mutual benefits.
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Ghoriibah, Ummy, Elita Rahmi, and Yetniwati. "Regulation of Land Use Rights After the Job Creation Act." In International Conference on Environmental and Energy Policy (ICEEP 2021). Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211014.028.
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Newman, R. P., and N. K. Brown. "Clean Air Act General Conformity Study for the Port of Baltimore." In Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality Congress 2007. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40960(320)24.
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Deuel, L. E., and G. H. Holliday. "Evolution of Oil and Gas Waste/Soil Remediation Regulations." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-80460.
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The meaningful United States regulation of onshore oil and gas field waste/soil commenced in the mid 1980’s in response to a series of state, federal, industry and international initiatives. Most initiatives centered on the design, construction and operation of earthen pits used in the exploration and production of oil and gas (E&P). Prior to this time, earthen pits were constructed as needed by the operator and used in all phases of E&P activity. Chief concerns of the regulators were focused on what had gone into pits historically, what was going into them currently and was the E&P exemption excluding high volume E&P wastes from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations justified. Several investigations, including the comprehensive field study by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1987, determined E&P wastes are ostensibly non-hazardous. EPA concluded regulation of E&P wastes under RCRA Subtitle C was not necessary. To this day there is no U. S. federal regulatory program with exclusive jurisdiction over exempt E&P wastes. Other studies, primarily industry and academic, focusing on land limiting constituents, management practices and pit closure strategies revealed sodium salts and petroleum hydrocarbon in the form of diesel range organics were the primary limiting constituents. One state, Louisiana, adopted the technical aspects of these studies and developed a comprehensive regulation known as Statewide Order 29-B, which was based on the concept of limiting constituents and defined post closure performance standards. These standards limited salinity, sodicity, total metals and total petroleum hydrocarbon (oil & grease) with values varying with respect to landform, land use and closure technique. Other states have adopted some of the concepts and criteria advanced under 29-B but none are as comprehensive. Obviously there is a need to control what goes into pits and how pits should be closed. The industry would best be served by adopting the concepts and standards set forth in the Louisiana 29-B regulation. A few of the provisions could be changed to make it more palatable to industry without sacrificing the protection afforded human and animal health, safety and the environment. Internationally, particularly countries in South America embraced USEPA protocol for testing characteristically hazardous wastes, but 1) without the framework to handle the relatively large volume of non-hazardous E&P waste generated and 2) no regulations or protocols for on-site waste management. Several operators, although partners with state owned oil companies, on their own volition, applied the concepts and standards under Louisiana’s 29-B to rainforests in South America and rice paddies in Indonesia. Canada and European oil and gas producing countries have developed stringent standards not based on science, which favor costly treatment technologies. Generally, these countries prohibit cost effective on-site waste management and closure techniques. This paper traces the evolution of waste/soil remediation within the United States and internationally. We trace the progress as a function of time; the impetus for regulation; and probable future controls.
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Szaloki, Richard, and Petra Szakonyi. "Sport Development via Sustainable Urban Land Use - The Case of Győr, Hungary." In 9th FEB International Scientific Conference. University of Maribor Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2025.3.
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This study presents an overview of the key sports developments in Győr over the past decade, emphasizing the significance of sustainable urban land use, particularly in the context of brownfield rehabilitation and comprehensive city development. Sustainable land use plays a crucial role in influencing economic, social, and environmental dynamics and aligns with the European Union's goal of achieving no net land take by 2050. In Hungary, this objective is also part of the national development strategy. Recent legislative changes, including the Architecture Act XXIII of 2023 and impending regulations for Spatial Planning and Building Requirements, underscore the focus on brownfield rehabilitation and the protection of green spaces. The paper discusses notable sports developments in Győr as well as those in other European cities, such as London and Paris. It explores the challenges faced by various investment types and identifies future opportunities for sustainable urban land use. Additionally, the study aims to highlight the social, economic, and environmental aspects of these sports investments.
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Nelson, Roger, and Alton D. Harris. "A National Perspective: Establishing and Implementing a Characterization Program in the U.S. for Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7129.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for waste management from nuclear weapons production and operates the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for permanent disposal of defense-generated transuranic waste (TRU), as authorized by Congress in 1979. Radioactive waste in the U.S. has historically been managed in one of two ways depending on its penetrating radiation dose rate. Waste with surface dose rates above 200 millirem/hour (0.002 sievert/hour) and waste that has been managed remotely (remote-handled). In 1992, Congress passed the WIPP Land Withdrawal Act, which created the regulatory framework under which DOE was to operate the facility, and authorized disposal of waste up to 1,000 rems/hour (10 Sievert/hour). Subsequently, DOE submitted applications to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), at the Federal level, for certification to operate WIPP, and to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), at the State level, for a hazardous waste permit. Both applications described the characterization methods that DOE proposed to use to ensure only compliant waste was shipped to WIPP. No distinction was employed in these methods concerning the surface dose rate from the waste. During the applications review, both regulatory agencies came to the conclusion in their approval that DOE had not demonstrated that remote-handled transuranic (RH-TRU) waste could be adequately characterized. Therefore, WIPP was only granted approval to begin waste disposal operations of waste with surface dose rates less than 200 millirem/hour (0.002 sievert/hour) — or contact-handled transuranic (CH-TRU) waste. Emplacement of CH-TRU waste in WIPP began March 26, 1999. However, WIPP was designed for disposal of both CH- and RH-TRU waste, with the RH-TRU waste in canisters emplaced in the walls of the underground disposal rooms and CH-TRU waste in containers in the associated open drifts. Therefore, as disposal rooms filled with CH-TRU waste, the space along the walls for RH-TRU waste disposal was lost. This made removal of the regulatory prohibition on RH-TRU waste a very high priority, and DOE immediately began an iterative process to change the two regulatory bases for RH-TRU waste disposal. These changes focused on how DOE could rely on CH-TRU characterization methods for adequate characterization of RH-TRU waste. On January 23, 2007, the first shipment of RH-TRU waste was finally received at WIPP. The revised EPA certification and NMED permit now both consider all waste characterization methods to be equally effective when applied to either CH- or RH-TRU waste, as DOE maintained in the original applications over 10 years ago.
Reports on the topic "Land Use Act 1978"
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Alexander, Serena, Bo Yang, Owen Hussey, and Derek Hicks. Examining the Externalities of Highway Capacity Expansions in California: An Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Using Remote Sensing Technology. Mineta Transportation Institute, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2023.2251.
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There are over 590,000 bridges dispersed across the roadway network that stretches across the United States alone. Each bridge with a length of 20 feet or greater must be inspected at least once every 24 months, according to the Federal Highway Act (FHWA) of 1968. This research developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based framework for bridge and road inspection using drones with multiple sensors collecting capabilities. It is not sufficient to conduct inspections of bridges and roads using cameras alone, so the research team utilized an infrared (IR) camera along with a high-resolution optical camera. In many instances, the IR camera can provide more details to the interior structural damages of a bridge or a road surface than an optical camera, which is more suitable for inspecting damages on the surface of a bridge or a road. In addition, the drone inspection system is equipped with a minicomputer that runs Machine Learning algorithms. These algorithms enable autonomous drone navigation, image capture of the bridge or road structure, and analysis of the images. Whenever any damage is detected, the location coordinates are saved. Thus, the drone can self-operate and carry out the inspection process using advanced AI algorithms developed by the research team. The experimental results reveal the system can detect potholes with an average accuracy of 84.62% using the visible light camera and 95.12% using a thermal camera. This developed bridge and road inspection framework can save time, money, and lives by automating and having drones conduct major inspection operations in place of humans.
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Carvalho, Helena. Land Inequality, Agricultural Productivity, and the Portuguese Agrarian Reform (1974-1976). APHES Working Paper in Economic and Social History, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55462/wpaphes_a_503.
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Land reforms sacrifice property rights in the name of a fairer distribution. The trade-off they imply makes their study of interest to Economic Historians: do the benefits of reduced land inequality justify the violation of property rights? The discussion about land reforms factors in both the social and efficiency consequences of land inequality. The debate preceding the Portuguese Agrarian Reform echoes these concerns and culminated in an anti-latifundia sentiment crystallized in the legislation used to justify the land occupations of 1974 to 1976. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the efficiency arguments used to justify the occupations. Was land productivity lower in latifúndio counties? A unique dataset drawn from primary sources was specially assembled to answer this question. Through standard OLS regression, this study finds that the number of agriculture journeyman per employer landowner has a statistically significant effect on agricultural productivity after controlling for geographical and soil characteristics. It also finds that introducing literacy as a control causes the effect of land inequality to disappear leading to the conclusion that policies aimed at improving human capital would have been just as effective as a land reform. Further, this study also identifies the crop mix selected as the proximate channel of transmission. Farmers in the region with the highest levels of land inequality favoured less valuable crops, like wheat. An arid climate combined with a lack of irrigation infrastructure and wheat protectionism justify this preference.
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Winters-Michaud, Clayton (Clayton P. )., Alfred Haro, Scott Callahan, and Daniel P. Bigelow. Major uses of land in the United States, 2017. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2024.8633522.ers.
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The United States has a total land area of 2.26 billion acres. In 2017, the major uses of land were grassland pasture and rangeland at 659 million acres (29 percent of the U.S. total), forest-use land at 622 million acres (28 percent), cropland at 390 million acres (17 percent), special uses (primarily parks and wildlife areas) at 318 million acres (14 percent), miscellaneous other uses (such as wetlands, tundra, and unproductive woodlands) at 197 million acres (9 percent), and urban land at 74 million acres (3 percent). This study presents findings from the most recent (2017) inventory of U.S. major land uses, drawing on data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and various other sources. The data sources are collected for each State to estimate the use of several broad classes and subclasses of agricultural and nonagricultural land over time. National and regional trends in land use are discussed using earlier major land-use estimates.--
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Navarro, Adoracion. The Need for a National Land Use Act in the Philippines. Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.62986/dp2023.40.
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Land use misgovernance in the Philippines arises due to the non-institutionalization of a national-level framework for land use and the lack of harmonization of sector-specific laws on land resources. But the effort to push for a National Land Use Act (NaLUA) is almost three decades old, and advocates are finding it hard to hurdle the legislative mill. This study establishes that to strengthen the push to enact a NaLUA, advocates need to employ a transdisciplinary approach and deepen, through updated data and evidence, the appreciation by policymakers and stakeholders of the arguments for having this legislation. The review of the theoretical foundations for land use analysis explains the evolution of land use analysis and the principles for land use governance. It also implies that a transdisciplinary approach is needed in advocating for a NaLUA. The assessment of data and pieces of evidence on conflicting land uses, land use misgovernance, and inadequacies of existing mechanisms for dealing with land use problems bolster the case for having a NaLUA. Insights of stakeholders during focus group discussions and key informant interviews confirm the findings from the assessment of data. Thus, the study concludes that enacting a NaLUA and ensuring it is implemented through an appropriate institutional mechanism can help resolve land use conflicts in the country. In addition, it can support greater and sustainable value addition in the economy through land use optimization.
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Phuong, Vu Tan, Nguyen Van Truong, and Do Trong Hoan. Commune-level institutional arrangements and monitoring framework for integrated tree-based landscape management. World Agroforestry, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp21024.pdf.
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Governance is a difficult task in the context of achieving landscape multifunctionality owing to the multiplicity of stakeholders, institutions, scale and ecosystem services: the ‘many-multiple’ (Cockburn et al 2018). Governing and managing the physical landscape and the actors in the landscape requires intensive knowledge and good planning systems. Land-use planning is a powerful instrument in landscape governance because it directly guides how actors will intervene in the physical landscape (land use) to gain commonly desired value. It is essential for sustaining rural landscapes and improving the livelihoods of rural communities (Bourgoin and Castella 2011, Bourgoin et al 2012, Rydin 1998), ensuring landscape multifunctionality (Nelson et al 2009, Reyers et al 2012) and enhancing efficiency in carbon sequestration, in particular (Bourgoin et al 2013, Cathcart et al 2007). It is also considered critical to the successful implementation of land-based climate mitigation, such as under Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), because the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is included in the mitigation contributions of nearly 90 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan and Southern Asia countries and in the Latin American and Caribbean regions (FAO 2016). Viet Nam has been implementing its NDC, which includes forestry and land-based mitigation options under the LULUCF sector. The contribution of the sector to committed national emission reduction is significant and cost-effective compared with other sectors. In addition to achieving emission reduction targets, implementation of forestry and land-based mitigation options has the highest benefits for social-economic development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (MONRE 2020). Challenges, however, lie in the way national priorities and targets are translated into sub-national delivery plans and the way sub-national actors are brought together in orchestration (Hsu et al 2019) in a context where the legal framework for climate-change mitigation is elaborated at national rather than sub-national levels and coordination between government bodies and among stakeholders is generally ineffective (UNDP 2018). In many developing countries, conventional ‘top–down’, centralized land-use planning approaches have been widely practised, with very little success, a result of a lack of flexibility in adapting local peculiarities (Amler et al 1999, Ducourtieux et al 2005, Kauzeni et al 1993). In forest–agriculture mosaic landscapes, the fundamental question is how land-use planning can best conserve forest and agricultural land, both as sources of economic income and environmental services (O’Farrell and Anderson 2010). This paper provides guidance on monitoring integrated tree-based landscape management at commune level, based on the current legal framework related to natural resource management (land and forest) and the requirements of national green-growth development and assessment of land uses in two communes in Dien Bien and Son La provinces. The concept of integrated tree based landscape management in Viet Nam is still new and should be further developed for wider application across levels.
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Story, Madison, and Adam Smith. Fort Hunter Liggett : a history and analysis. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/46340.
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The US Congress codified the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), the nation’s most effective cultural resources legislation to date, mostly through establishing the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The NHPA requires Federal agencies to address their cultural resources, which are defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. Section 110 of the NHPA requires Federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources, and Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of Federal undertakings on those potentially eligible for the NRHP. Fort Hunter Liggett is located on California’s Central Coast within Monterey County. The fort has been used as a training facility for large-scale maneuvers and live-fire exercises since its establishment as a US Army training facility in 1941. The periods of significance for Criterion A are: from 1769 to 1833, relating to the founding and development of Mission San Antonio de Padua; from 1834 to 1923, relating to Euro-American land grants and ranchos; from 1923 to 1940, relating to Hearst’s purchase of the property and subsequent development; from 1940 to 1945, relating to the establishment of the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation (HLMR) and activities related to WWII; from 1959 to 1970, relating to the establishment and buildup of CDEC; and from 1975 to 1980, relating to HLMR’s redesignation as Fort Hunter Liggett and associated development. This report provides a comprehensive historic context for ranges, features, and buildings at Fort Hunter Liggett in support of Section 110 of the NHPA.
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Simms, Janet, Benjamin Breland, and William Doll. Geophysical investigation to assess condition of grouted scour hole : Old River Control Complex—Low Sill Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41863.
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Geophysical surveys, both land-based and water-borne, were conducted at the Old River Control Complex‒Low Sill, Concordia Parish, LA. The purpose of the surveys was to assess the condition of the grout within the scour region resulting from the 1973 flood event, including identification of potential voids within the grout. Information from the ground studies will also be used for calibration of subsequent marine geophysical data and used in stability analysis studies. The water-borne survey consisted of towed low frequency (16-80 MHz) ground penetrating radar (GPR), whereas the land-based surveys used electrical resistivity and seismic refraction. The GPR survey was conducted in the Old River Channel on the upstream side of the Low Sill structure. The high electrical conductivity of the water (~50 mS/m) precluded penetration of the GPR signal; thus, no useful data were obtained. The land-based surveys were performed on both northeast and southeast sides of the Low Sill structure. Both resistivity and seismic surveys identify a layered subsurface stratigraphy that corresponds, in general, with available borehole data and constructed geologic profiles. In addition, an anomalous area on the southeast side was identified that warrants future investigation and monitoring.
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Hertel, Thomas, Alla Golub, Andrew Jones, Michael O'Hare, Richard Plevin, and Daniel Kammen. Global Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of U.S. Maize Ethanol: The Role of Market-Mediated Responses. GTAP Working Paper, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21642/gtap.wp55.
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With the recent adoption by the California Air Resources Board of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and USEPA’s Energy Independence and Security Act, greenhouse gas releases from indirect land use change triggered by crop-based biofuels have taken center stage in the debate over the role of biofuels in climate policy and energy security. This paper presents an analysis of these releases for US maize ethanol. Our analysis highlights the key role of market-mediated responses to biofuels mandates. Factoring these into our analysis reduces cropland conversion by 72%. As a consequence the associated GHG release estimated in our framework is just 800 g CO2 MJ -1y (27 g MJ-1 for 30 years of ethanol production). This figure is a quarter of the one previously published value. However, it is still large enough to eliminate the global warming mitigation benefits of most corn ethanol. Paper is under review with BioScience; available from the authors upon request
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Story, Madison, Adam Smith, and Sunny Adams. Fort McCoy firing ranges and military training lands : a history and analysis. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/45600.
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The US Congress codified the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), the nation’s most effective cultural resources legislation to date, mostly through establishing the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The NHPA requires Federal agencies to address their cultural resources, which are defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. Section 110of the NHPA requires Federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources, and Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of Federal undertakings on those potentially eligible for the NRHP. Fort McCoy is entirely within Monroe County in west-central Wisconsin. It was first established as the Sparta Maneuver Tract in 1909.The post was renamed Camp McCoy in 1926. Since 1974, it has been known as Fort McCoy. This report provides a historic context for ranges, features, and buildings associated with the post’s training lands in support of Section 110 of the NHPA.
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Smith, Adam, Karlee Feinen, Kathryn Maag, August Fuelberth, and Megan Tooker. Historic Landscape Inventory for Mare Island Naval Cemetery, California. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48751.
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This project was undertaken to provide the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), with a cultural land-scape inventory of Mare Island Naval Cemetery. The approximately 2.5-acre cemetery is located in Vallejo, California, and contains more than 900 burials. Mare Island Naval Cemetery is part of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard historic district, which was listed concurrently on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark in 1975. The NCA tasked the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) with inventorying and assessing the cultural landscape at Mare Island Naval Cemetery through the creation of a landscape development context, a description of current conditions, and an analysis of changes to the cultural landscape over time. All landscape features were included in the inventory as NCA requested ERDC-CERL to follow federal policy on national cemeteries that requires that all national cemetery landscape features be considered contributing elements, regardless of age.