The Origins of the Korean War

The Origins of the Korean War
Author: Bruce Cumings
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981-c1990.
Total Pages: 648
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

The description for this book, The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947, will be forthcoming.

Land Governance and Gender

Land Governance and Gender
Author: Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Publisher: Cabi
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Agriculture and state
ISBN: 9781789247664

"This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. Topics include "Creating new understandings," "Exploring alternative approaches for land management and land tenure," "Viewing vistas of tenure experiences across the globe," and "Stretching the gender perspectives""--

Sustainable Agricultural Development

Sustainable Agricultural Development
Author: Mohamed Behnassi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400705190

Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger in many already affected regions (especially in Africa). In this context, sustainable agriculture is highly recommended as an eco-system approach where soil, water, plants, environment and living organisms live in harmony. Innovative technologies and research should be developed to ensure sustainable agriculture and productivity using modern irrigation systems, improved varieties, improved soil quality, etc. In the meantime, the preservation of natural environment should be based on resource conservation technologies and best management practices. Sustainable Agricultural Development, not only raises the serious ethical and social issues underlying these huge environmental problems, but also aims at presenting successful experiences from all over the world in relation with sustainable farming, sustainable management of water and land resources, and innovative processes in livestock production. It also aims at providing inputs to decision making processes and encouraging the transfer of relevant know-how, technologies and expertise to different countries where similar agro-climatic conditions may exist; thus saving precious resources and promoting sustainable agricultural development as a relevant approach to tackle the food security challenge. Finally, this book focuses on the paradigmatic and policy dimensions and call for an innovative approach by analyzing the key themes in a complex and interrelated manner.

The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea

The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea
Author: Edward S. Mason
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 168417225X

Explores the economic and social development of Korea, primarily in the twentieth century. Includes extensive statistical data. Examines the impact of Japanese colonialism and subsequent macroeconomic development, industrialization, rural development, fiscal and financial development, income distribution, the development of foreign trade, the role of education, foreign assistance, and urbanization. Includes 134 tables and 10 figures summarizing historical statistical data.

Owning the Earth

Owning the Earth
Author: Andro Linklater
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1408815745

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a result of the most creative - and, at the same time, destructive - cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. This notion laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership, and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.The seventeenth-century English surveyor William Petty was the first man to recognise the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky redistributed land in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after the Second World War to make possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies. Through the eyes of these remarkable individuals and many more, including Chinese emperors and German peasants, Andro Linklater here presents the evolution of land ownership to offer a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.

Land Ownership

Land Ownership
Author: Annie Murray Hannay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1953
Genre: Land tenure
ISBN:

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty
Author: John B. Duncan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295805331

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.