From Land Disputes to Sustainable Environmental Development : A near East Perspective

• Autore: Mehmet Ozay
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Altri autori: YorucuVedat
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Classical Economic Theories of Rent, Paradigms, and Land Tenure: A Near East Perspective -- 1.1 Introduction -- 2 Land in Economic Theory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Land Economics -- 2.3 Proudhon: Property as Theft -- 2.4 The Mainstream Paradigm: The Ricardian Rent Theory -- 2.5 Malthusian Population Theory -- 2.6 The 2-Sector Lewis Model: Unplanned Rural Exodus -- 2.7 Neo-Malthusianism and Its Critics -- 2.8 Location Theory and Growth Poles -- 2.9 Urbanization Driven by Economies of Scale: A Near East Perspective -- 2.10 Business Cycles, Real Estate Market Dynamics: Evidence from North Cyprus -- 2.11 Land as God's Property -- 2.12 Turkish Earthquake and the Gecekondu (Ghetto-House) Phenomenon -- 2.13 Conclusion -- References -- Part I Land in the Age of Western Imperialism -- 3 Colonialism: Private Property, Indigenous Land, Waqfs -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 From New France to British Canada -- 3.3 Missionaries, Dispossession of Indigenous Land and Destruction of Culture -- 3.4 The Louis Riel Rebellion -- 3.4.1 The Peter Bryce Affair -- 3.5 Native Land Claims and the Truth and Reconciliation Process -- 3.6 The Australian Penal Colony and the Aboriginal Land Rights -- 3.7 The Near East: Land in the Period of Ottoman Decline -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Plantations and Chartered Companies: Land for Exploitation or God's Gift? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Waqf Land in British India: Zamindars, Tea, Poppy, and the Opium Wars -- 4.3 The Zamindar and Land Tax System -- 4.4 Tea and Poppy -- 4.5 The Opium Wars -- 4.6 How a Railway Built British East Africa? -- 4.7 The Louisiana Purchase and the Opening of the 'Wild West' -- 4.8 Egyptian Cotton Paves the Way for British Occupation. ; 4.9 Rubber Planters and Speculators: From British Malaya to Malaysia -- 4.9.1 From Small-Scale to Corporate Mining -- 4.9.2 British Malaya Becomes the World's Rubber Producer -- 4.9.3 The First Rubber Boom -- 4.9.4 Malay Poverty -- 4.9.5 Independence and Restructuring the Economy -- 4.10 The Dutch Spice Monopoly in Indonesia -- 4.11 Firestone Company and the Americo-Liberian Privilege -- 4.12 A Moral Balance Sheet -- 4.13 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Dispossession Due to War and Conflict: Palestine and Cyprus -- 5 Palestinians, a Nation of Refugees -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Old City of Jerusalem as Ottoman Waqf, the Ottoman Land Reform -- 5.3 Power Politics -- 5.4 Settlements: Kibbutzim and Moshavim -- 5.5 Water Shortage, Irrigation Technology and Nationalism -- 5.6 UNRWA Creates a Nation of Refugees -- 5.7 Palestinian Diaspora -- 5.8 "Right of Return" or a Palestinian State? -- 5.9 Land Occupied, Unfinished Oslo II -- 5.10 One City, Two Capitals -- 5.11 Conclusion: Getting There -- References -- 6 Cyprus War, 1974 and Waqf Lands -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 How Cyprus Became British? -- 6.3 The Waqf Lands in Ottoman Cyprus -- 6.4 British Evkaf in Cyprus -- 6.5 The Special Case of Maras/Varosha -- 6.5.1 Lala Mustafa Pasha Waqf -- 6.5.2 Bilal Ağa Waqf -- 6.5.3 Abdullah Pasha Waqf -- 6.5.4 Large Waqf Lands in Cyprus -- 6.6 The War in 1974 and Land Claims -- 6.7 The Failed Annan Plan, and Subsequent Failed Conferences -- 6.8 Compensation Scenarios -- 6.9 Conclusion -- References -- Part III Land Settlement Machinery -- 7 Post-WW2 Land Settlement in Europe -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Czech Republic -- 7.3 The Slovak Republic -- 7.4 The Case of Albania -- 7.5 The Case of Poland -- 7.6 Land Reform in Latvia -- 7.7 Land Reform in Hungary -- 7.8 Land Reform in Slovenia -- 7.9 Land Reform in Estonia -- 7.10 The Case of Lithuania. ; 7.11 Land in German Reunification -- 7.12 Some Conclusions -- References -- 8 The Immovable Property Commission in North Cyprus -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Land, the Core Issue in the Cyprus Problem -- 8.3 The Immovable Property Commission (IPC) -- 8.4 Annan Plan's Property Scheme -- 8.5 Maras/Varosha: From Ghost City to Sustainable Development -- 8.6 Land and Property Development, Utilizing the Annan Plan -- 8.7 General Valuation: A Survey of Methodology -- 8.8 Classification of Developed Land and Land with Potential Development Cities -- 8.9 Conclusions: A Latvia Model for Cyprus? -- References -- Part IV Threats to Global Sustainable Development in the Majority World -- 9 Human Damage to the Global Ecosystem -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Capitalist Greed: Consumerism, Greed, and Corporate Profits -- 9.3 Global Warming and Climate Change -- 9.3.1 Carbon Emissions -- 9.3.2 Desertification and Related Risk -- 9.3.3 Deforestation -- 9.3.4 Iceberg Meltdown and Rising Sea Level -- 9.4 Social Capital, Ideology and Ecosystem in a Divided World -- 9.5 Water Shortage -- 9.5.1 Aral Sea Case -- 9.6 Water Wars and Dams -- 9.7 Conclusion: Agribusiness-For Whose Benefit? -- References -- 10 Tourism: Human Greed and a 'Paradise' Divided -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Main Types of Tourism -- 10.3 Alternative Tourism -- 10.4 Casino Tourism -- the Las Vegas Model -- 10.5 A Paradise Divided: Tourism in Turkish and Greek Cyprus -- 10.6 Turtles, the Karpaz Peninsular and Ecology -- 10.7 Crafts and Culture -- 10.8 Greed Driven Tourism, Negative Net Social Benefits -- 10.9 Sustainable Tourism -- References -- Part V Future Scenarios: From Neo-imperialism to a Just and Sustainable World: The Role of Land -- 11 UN's SDGs 2030 Agenda, Environment as Global Public Good -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 UN SDGs -- 11.3 UN COP Agenda: Climate Change. ; 11.4 Renewable Technology: Cost and Price Trends -- 11.5 Solar Energy Projects, a Few Examples from the Near East -- 11.6 Universal Basic Income -- 11.7 Indigenous Sustainable Development: Social Education -- 11.7.1 The Sami People -- 11.7.2 Social Learning for Canadian First Nations -- 11.8 Indigenous Co-ownership and Revenue Sharing Schemes -- 11.8.1 Haida Nation, British Columbia, Canada -- 11.8.2 Revenue Sharing in Western Australia Mining -- 11.9 Conclusion: From Neo-imperialism to a Just and Sustainable World -- References -- 12 Smart Cities, With Special Reference to the Ghost City of Maras/Varosha -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Smart City and Sustainable Urban Development -- 12.3 Transformation of Cities to Smart City -- 12.4 Critical Perspectives on Smart Cities -- 12.5 Our Ideologically Divided World -- 12.5.1 Best Practice Cities -- 12.6 Singapore as a Model -- 12.7 The Case Study of City of Maras/Varosha -- 12.8 From Ghost Town to Smart City -- 12.9 Physical Capital Infrastructure Investments in the City of Maras/Varosha -- 12.10 Maras/Varosha as a Hub of the Larger Development Region of Famagusta and Iskele Districts -- 12.11 Conclusion -- References -- Part VI Conclusion: Toward Just and Sustainable World -- 13 Road to a New Sustainable World: A Summing Up -- 13.1 Universal Basic Income: Taxing MNCs -- 13.2 Indigenous Autonomous Development -- 13.3 The UN SD Goals: Goodwill Is Not Enough.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Land Disputes to Sustainable Environmental Development
• ISBN: 3-031-56560-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910851992403321
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