Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia
Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia

Author: Hualing Fu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1139993372

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal failure that this book brings together leading scholars to understand how state agencies, land users and land developers imaginatively engage with each other to resolve disputes. Drawing on empirically rich case studies, contributors explore the limits of law and legal institutions in resolving land disputes and reveal insights into how key actors in East Asia understand land disputes. Their studies reveal promising dispute resolution practices and point to the likely ways that states will deal with land disputes in the future.

Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong
Planning Buildings for a High-Rise Environment in Hong Kong

Author: Lawrence Wai-chung Lai

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9622095054

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is the first systematic attempt to document statutory building control in Hong Kong. It examines 40 cases decided by the Building Appeal Board with reference to the overlapping jurisdictions of the Buildings, Lands and Planning authorities in controlling building development. The cases are categorized under nine major themes, namely 'procedures and principles', 'immediate neighbourhood', 'widths of streets', 'lanes', 'access and parking', 'stepped streets', 'means of escape', 'illegal structures and enforcement orders' and 'demolition'. Each case is examined in detail, cross-referenced and illustrated by drawings and photographs where appropriate. For each category, a list of relevant law cases and a summary of the decision criteria identified are also provided. This work should be of great value to Authorized Persons, surveyors, lawyers and town planners who practise in Hong Kong, as well as those who are interested in the policies and issues concerning building control in a high-rise and high density living environment. It should also help professional practitioners prepare for the relevant APC examinations for the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and other professional organizations.

A Practical Approach to Conveyancing
A Practical Approach to Conveyancing

Author: Robert Abbey

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 0199678197

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Taking a pragmatic, rather than academic, approach to conveyancing, this work provides solutions to everyday problems encountered by conveyancing practitioners wishing to offer a cost-effective and efficient service.

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Author: Kareem Rabie

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1478021403

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.

The Construction Industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Construction Industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Author: Clinton Aigbavboa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 3030265285

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28–30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference provided an essential forum for reviewing and generating knowledge on Construction 4.0 and, consequently, highlighted processes and practices that allow us to deliver and operate built environment assets more effectively and efficiently by focusing on physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical transformation. The event addressed three broad themes: Industrial production (prefabrication, 3-D printing and assembly, offsite and advanced manufacturing); Cyber-physical systems (actuators, sensors, IoT, robots and cobots for repetitive and dangerous tasks, and drones for mapping, progress monitoring, safety and quality inspections, lifting, moving and positioning); and Technologies (digital ecosystems, digital platforms, BIM, video and laser scanning, AI and cloud computing, big data and data analytics, reality capture, blockchain, simulation, virtual and augmented reality, data standards and interoperability, and vertical and horizontal integration). Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all construction industry and architectural professionals who want to learn about cutting-edge technologies applied to construction

Enclosure
Enclosure

Author: Gary Fields

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0520291050

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel's actions. He places those actions in historical context in a broad analysis of power and landscapes across the modern world. Examining the process of land-grabbing in early modern England, colonial North America, and contemporary Palestine, Enclosure shows how patterns of exclusion and privatization have emerged across time and geography. That the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were copied by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current rationale as being uniquely beleaguered. It also helps readers in the United Kingdom and the United States understand the Israel-Palestine conflict in the context of their own, tortured histories"--Provided by publisher.

Employer Sanctions
Employer Sanctions

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Research Handbook on the Ombudsman
Research Handbook on the Ombudsman

Author: Marc Hertogh

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-11-30

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1786431254

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The public sector ombudsman has become one of the most important administrative justice institutions in many countries around the world. This international and interdisciplinary Research Handbook brings together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art of ombudsman research. It uses new empirical studies and competing theoretical explanations to critically examine important aspects of the ombudsman’s work. This comprehensive Handbook is of value to academics designing future ombudsman studies and practitioners and policymakers in understanding the future challenges of the ombudsman.