Negotiability and limits to negotiability - Land use strategies in the SALCRA Batang Ai Resettlement Scheme, Sarawak, East Malaysia

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-28

  Banerjee, Nina ^a   Bojsen, Kristina P M ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Access theory; Development intervention; Institutional dynamics; Negotiation; Rural development

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND USE; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 24344469573     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2005.10649523     Document Type: Article

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