New World says it is the biggest foreign holder of land-use rights in China.
Earlier this year the state legislature set up a ten-member commission to review land-use laws.
But Columbia's agreement, according to land-use experts, has fallen victim to common structural and legal flaws.
Environmentalists in particular were horrified at his company's hostility to land-use and clean-air laws.
In Vietnam, the state owns all the land and grants land-use rights to farmers, businesses and home-owners.
They griped about unclear land-use rights and how officials deny them access to the state forests nearby.
Changing climate, in addition to land-use changes, are making water supplies increasingly erratic, as climate scientists have predicted.
Unclear ownership also raises a big obstacle to the improvements in land-use planning that REDD must bring about.
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The last major land-use survey in the county was carried out in 1973.
The guidelines developed for Anguilla (Cambers, 1996a) have been incorporated into the National Land-use Development Plan and are being implemented.
This differential, born not just of the Indian boom but of antiquated land-use rules, spotlights a continuing disadvantage for India.
In 1999, a land-use survey carried out for local municipalities by independent consultants found only about 9, 000 hectares of coca.
In 2006-10 across China they sold land-use rights to over 22, 000km2 of land, an area the size of New Jersey.
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It was supposed to be a breakthrough victory for Harlem residents and a model on how to settle raging land-use disputes.
In the ensuing decade, Oregon pioneered tough land-use regulations, curbing industries that relied on forest products and declaring war on suburban sprawl.
Indigenous land-use agreements, usually involving compensation, employment opportunities, and the preservation of designated heritage sites, have become the new standard in mining.
One clear way to start this process is through land-use policy.
Measure 37 won 61% of the vote last year, but polls since then have shown that an equal number favour effective land-use controls.
The American Planning Association's Hawaii chapter gripes that the state's land-use commission spends too much time on individual projects rather than setting broad plans.
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The good news is that the latest draft, unlike the 2005 version, gives farmers the right to renew their land-use leases after they expire.
Three years on, the final land-use decree has yet to appear.
Clearly visible in the new time series are major land-use changes during the 20th Century that gave enormous nitrate kicks to the hydrology of the Thames basin.
The quasi-governmental Rural Development Center suggests extending land-use contracts for 100 years and allowing people to pass the right to farm the land on to their children.
In the rare event a borrower went under, his land collateral was as good as gold anyway since legions of land-use restrictions acted as virtual government price supports.
Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
Otherwise there will be no chance of the many reforms required outside the forestry sector: in land-use planning and rural development, in agriculture, energy and infrastructure policies, and much else.
In other words, a country would decide how its land-use carbon emission or absorption would be likely to change in future, and then to measure actual performance against that baseline.
It means the 1939 kick seen in the nitrate "curve" above also incorporates some the delayed response from the land-use change brought about by the introduction of arable subsidies in 1917.
Ownership could be challenged, but critics worry that it would be difficult to do so for former state-owned assets or for land-use rights that had been sold off in shady deals.
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