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Land Use Conflicts in the Developing Countries: Proximate Driving Forces and Preventive Measures

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  • Habibullah Magsi

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, faculty of Agricultural Social Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan)

  • Andre Torr

    (University Paris Saclay, INRA Agro Paris Tech, France)

  • Yansui Liu

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (CAS), Beijing, China)

  • M. Javed Sheikh

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, faculty of Agricultural Social Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan)

Abstract

This research aims to analyse land use conflicts mainly caused by infrastructural development projects in the developing countries. For this purpose, qualitative data is gathered which is frequently 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. The analysis concludes with an overview of the root causes and consequences of 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, the study proposes some preventive measures to manage such conflicts.

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  • Habibullah Magsi & Andre Torr & Yansui Liu & M. Javed Sheikh, 2017. "Land Use Conflicts in the Developing Countries: Proximate Driving Forces and Preventive Measures," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 56(1), pages 19-30.
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    Keywords

    Conflict; Proximity Relations; Infrastructure; Developing Countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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