Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia

Large-scale land acquisitions, or land grabbing', has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term land acquisitions' refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. In this book focusing on South-East Asia, a series of thematic and in-depth case studies put 'land grabbing' into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights ...