Land - Caught in the conflict between custom and commercialism

Land Use Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-207

  Boydell, Spike ^a   Holzknecht, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; LAND TENURE; LAND USE CONFLICT; WESTERN WORLD;

PACIFIC ISLANDS;

EID: 0042934301     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8377(03)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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