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Governments often used the promise of land as a means to implement policy. Whether the land was in the form of a large grant to a successful explorer, or in the offer of a homestead on the frontier, the motive for such grants was seldom entirely altruistic. Most grants contained stipulations for settlement and cultivation because a growing population was necessary for economic development. Rulers of Florida also offered land grants to encourage a particular religion, to protect shipping, or to establish protection against Indian attacks. When Florida became part of the United States, large sections of the territory were already claimed under various land grants made by Spain or Great Britain. Succeeding United States governments continued to grant land to individuals or companies to stimulate internal improvements or to increase population. In the hands of developers, land grants usually had the desired effect, but in the hands of speculators they tended to decrease population growth. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of land grants on population growth in Orange County, Florida.

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The Importance of Municipal Finance -- Chapter 1: Municipal Revenue Options in a Time of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 2: Financing Cities -- Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Structures -- Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Transfers to Local Governments -- Chapter 4: Trends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future -- Chapter 5: Creative Designs of the Patchwork Quilt of Municipal Finance -- Broad-Based Local Taxes and Development Impact Fees -- Chapter 6: The Contribution of Local Sales and Income Taxes to Fiscal Autonomy -- Chapter 7: The Effects of Development Impact Fees on Local Fiscal Conditions -- Chapter 8: A New Financial Instrument of Value Capture in São Paulo -- Financing Submunicipal Services -- Chapter 9: Governance Structures and Financial Authority in Submunicipal Districts: Implications for Fiscal Performance -- Chapter 10: Does a Rising Tide Compensate for the Secession of the Successful? -- Chapter 11: Does TIF Make It More Difficult to Manage Municipal Budgets? -- Chapter 12: Homeowners Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget -- Capital Financing of Infrastructure -- Chapter 13: Complex Debt for Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 14: Prospects for Private Infrastructure in the United States: The Case of Toll Roads -- Comparisons of the Property Tax with Other Revenue Instruments -- Chapter 15: An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments -- Chapter 16: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times? How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index -- ABOUT THE LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY.

This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).

Decollectivization and the division of land have raised questions about whether a landed basis might reappear for a contemporary reformulation of patriliny in the Chinese countryside. This article addresses these questions by examining the processes through which formerly collective land has been divided and partially brought together again in informal, nameless co-operative groupings with an apparent patrilineal tinge.

Metadata only record ; The International Land Coalition (ILC) started as the Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger and Poverty. This is a global alliance of intergovernmental, governmental and civil-society organizations committed to rural poverty eradication. On their website, (on the left click on documents) the link presents a list of resources related to the role of women and access to land. There are case studies and country reports in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Nepal, as well as links to other organization's documents, such as FAO, and WEDO.

In China, illegal evictions disenfranchise farmers and threaten agricultural development. The government claims to have introduced the world's strictest measures to protect farmland and improve farmers' lives, but with minimal results. As rural land remains in the hands of the state, is land privatization the solution?

ABSTRACT: This article, which is part of the North–South Legal Mapping Project, considers land law and land use in each jurisdiction on the island of Ireland. The first part provides a sketch of the basic structures of land law, identifying a remarkable level of convergence (or, more accurately, absence of divergence), which is only partially qualified by recent comprehensive land law reform in Ireland, notwithstanding the absence of comparable reforms in Northern Ireland. The second part considers land use, where there is greater (and increasing) potential for divergence, particularly in environmental governance. The article sketches and explains core influencing factors that have shaped the evolution of environmental governance on the island to date, before considering how Brexit and subsequent developments impact regulatory alignment across the island. It focuses on the issue of water protection and river basin management, in light of the three transboundary river basins on the island.

Papers presented at the International Workshop on "Urbanization, Land Use, Land Degradation and Environment", jointly organized by Pamukkale University, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organization and the Center for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries during 28th September-1st October 2009 in Denizil, Turkey