Is land more than the sum of its parts?

Galloway, Kate (2013) Is land more than the sum of its parts? In: Sustainability Symposium: how can we live and eat sustainably in the tropics. pp. 1-3. From: Sustainability Symposium: how can we live and eat sustainably in the tropics, 8 March 2013, Cairns, Australia. (Unpublished)

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While science is providing answers to pressing questions of the capacity of our land to produce food, the way in which land is used is constrained also by the law. Regulatory responses to land use can occur on a number of levels but most of these assume a free market in land as a composite of separate resources to be exploited - minerals, energy stores and water are themselves becoming the subject of discrete property rights generating conflicts between interest holders. Perhaps the way we regulate land needs to take a broader view of its capacity to serve human needs; a view that appreciates it is more than the sum of its parts.

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Item Type: Conference Item (Presentation)
Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2013 23:24
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