... of wealth, but also has serious deficiencies when it comes to the equitable redistribution of its fruits and the encouragement of growth in less developed areas. The agrarian structure of developing countries is often distinguished by a two-tier form of distribution, with a small number of large landowners possessing most of the arable land, while substantial numbers of very small owners, ... to note that the private appropriation of land not only led to the formation and consolidation of large holdings, but also had the diametrically opposite effect of fragmenting smallholdings. Many d...

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... would appear to differ somewhat from the historical experience in a number of ways: the scale and pace of environmental change has increased substantially; differences between countries in ability to cope with these changes have increased; whereas in the past the migration destination options for environmental migrants have overwhelmingly been to move within their ... labour, credit, markets), institutions (e.g. land tenure systems, governance) and vulnerability (e.g. seasonal vs. long-term networks, entitlements)" (Gray and Moseley, 2005). In many parts of the developing world, vulnerab...

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... accident as an event that has been consigned to history, but the truth is that the accident continues to have a devastating impact on the populations of the three most affected countries, including Ukraine. While the explosive stories of the meltdown and clouds of radiation have long since faded from the headlines, the real human, economic, social, health and environmental catastrophe has ... only just begun. The dynamics of population and the management of environmental resources are closely related concerns confronting our contemporary world. Whether we live in rural or urban, develop...

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