Land titling in Starr County Colonias along the Texas-Mexico border: Planning + stability issues

Projections

Volumn , Issue 6, 2007, Pages 36-55

  Giusti, Cecilia ^a   Larson, Jane ^b   Ward, Peter M ^c   de Souza, Flavio ^c,d   May, Marlynn ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; FINANCIAL MARKET; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNERSHIP; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

NORTH AMERICA; STARR COUNTY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547792420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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