As in other societies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, customary social organization features strongly in rural Timor-Leste. As well as providing avenues for conflict resolution, the influence of customary systems extends to land tenure. As the state, development partners, private investors,...

This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the...

This article tests institutional models of environmental pressure, for example, the Tragedy of the Commons, against evidence from Darfur region, Sudan. Three aspects are considered in detail: rangeland degradation, rangeland enclosure and the implicit rent gained from range destocking. A...