Full Description
This interdisciplinary analysis of Scotland's perennial political hot potato - the Scottish land question - follows the latest legislative development, The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. Bringing together leading academics and professional experts working in law, history and policy, Land Reform in Scotland delves into issues from the early modern period to present day. Individual chapters discuss some areas such as property theory and human rights which have been under-studied in relation to land reform.
Contents
Acknowledgements; List of ContributorsIntroduction Malcolm M. Combe, Jayne Glass and Annie Tindley
Part I: HistoryChapter 1: Land, labour and capital: external influences and internal responses in early modern Scotland. Allan MacinnesChapter 2: Agricultural enlightenment, landownership and Scotland's culture of improvement, 1700-1820. Brian BonnymanChapter 3: The impact of agrarian radicalism on land reform in Scotland and Ireland, 1879-1903. Brian CaseyChapter 4: 'The usual agencies of civilisation:' conceptions of landownership and reform in the comparative context in the long nineteenth century. Annie TindleyChapter 5: Still on the agenda? The strange survival of the Scottish land question, 1880 to 1999. Ewen A. Cameron Part II: Law Chapter 6: History, law and land through the lens of sasine. Andrew R. C. SimpsonChapter 7: Legislating for community land rights. Malcom M. CombeChapter 8: Towards sustainable community ownership: a comparative assessment of Scotland's new compulsory community right to buy. John A. LovettChapter 9: Property rights and human rights in Scottish land reform. Frankie McCarthyChapter 10: The evolution of sustainable development in Scotland - a case study of community right to buy regimes, 2003 to 2018. Andrea RossChapter 11: Scottish residential tenancies. Douglas BainChapter 12: Crofting law. Eilidh I. M. MacLellanChapter 13: Agricultural tenancy legislation and public policy considerations in Scotland. Hamish LeanPart III: PolicyChapter 14: Planning and rights: are there lessons for town planning we can borrow from land reform? Robert G. ReidChapter 15: Crofting policy and legislation: an undemocratic and illegitimate structure of domination? Iain MacKinnonChapter 16: Does size really matter? Sustainable development outcomes from different scales of land ownership. Jayne Glass, Steven Thomson and Rob Mc MorranChapter 17: Agricultural models in Scotland and Norway - a comparison. Annie McKee, Heidi Vinge, Hilde Bjørkhaug and Reidar Almås
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