Extra-legal land market dynamics on a Guatemalan agricultural frontier: Implications for neoliberal land policies

Land Use Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 408-420

  Gould, Kevin A ^a   Carter, Douglas R ^b   Shrestha, Ram K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural frontier; Deforestation; Guatemala; Land administration; Land market; Land title; Latin America; Neoliberal; Property rights; Regularization

Indexed keywords

LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND MARKET; LAND RIGHTS; NEOLIBERALISM; RURAL ECONOMY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 33745700803     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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