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The Land Issue 7 2009 OUT OF PRINT
| One Man's Pirate |
| is another man’s coastguard. Why Somalis turn to piracy |
| Unsung Heroes |
| The never ending struggle against road-building |
| Clean Conscience Mechanism |
| STEFFEN BÖHM scrutinizes a carbon offset scheme in Uruguay |
| A Never Ending Struggle |
| Land grabs in the forests of Colombia, Peru and Surinam |
| Land Reform Compromised in Bolivia |
| EVO MORALES battles agains Bolivia’s fascist legacy |
| The Last Plantation |
| What happened to all the Black farmers in the USA? |
| Letter on Contraction and Convergence |
| MOLLY SCOTT CATO responds to Oliver Tickell |
| Ghandi on the Road Again |
| MADDALLENA CAMMELLI describes the Janadesh walk to Delhi for land reform |
| A Short History of Enclosure in Britain |
| How our land was privatized over five centuries, by SIMON FAIRLIE |
| Sheep Eat Men |
| SIMON FAIRLIE finds history repeating itself on the Welsh borders |
| Down With the Fences |
| MICHAEL BRADLEY recounts how London’s commons were saved by direct action |
| Literary Responses to the Clearances |
| Little known writers were more vocal than big names, writes CHARLOTTE FAIRLIE |
| Will the Real Farm Labourer Please Stand Up? |
| K D M SNELL on Hardy’s depiction of Dorset labourers |
| Everyone's Right |
| LOUKAS CHRITODOULOU examines the history of common right in Sweden |
| Poachers in the Alps |
| ROLAND GIRTLER AND GERALD KOHL uncover the culture of the “Wilderer” |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Rural Planning Policy to be Axed |
| Why the ministry wants to get rid of PPS7 |
| Where Next for LID in Wales? |
| MARK DYSON on the prospects for a low impact policy in Wales |
| News from West Wales |
| It is make or break time for the Lammas project, writes PAUL WIMBUSH |
| Green and Pleasant Land |
| Lobbyimg for a low impact policy in Dorset |
| The PEPC Generation |
| A smallholders’ co-op centred round a packing and processing barn |
| A Long Road to Nowhere |
| Why do so many affordable housing groups founder? |
| Random Concept Clusters |
| How to write a government consultation paper |
| Steward Wood and Karuna |
| Two permaculture appeal decisions with different results |
| Update from Wealden |
| Two LID projects in Sussex receive renewal of permission |
| My Other Home is a Georgian Pile |
| Rural shoebox deemed to have architectural merit |
| Reflections of a Dumpster Diver |
| Tristram Stuart’s new book on food waste |
| An Idea Whose Time Has Come |
| The original Low Impact Development is republished |
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The Land Issue 6 Winter 2008 OUT OF PRINT
| Three Cheers for the Recession |
| It’s what advocates of a zero growth economy have been waiting for |
| Posture Politics and Colonial Fallout in Zimbabwe |
| Mark Brown assesses Robert Mugabe’s reputation and legacy |
| Life After Land Reform |
| Ian Scoones examines the effects of redistribution of land in one area of Zimbabwe |
| Reconstructing Serbia |
| Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan visit occupied factories in Serbia |
| Before It’s Lost |
| A sketch of rural Serbia, by Rob MacCurrach |
| International Land Struggles |
| Syngenta in Brazil, Chinese in Africa, divisions among exiled Tibetans etc |
| An Ecosystem at Your Service |
| Sian Sullivan explains the thinking behind "ecosystem services" |
| Managing Atmospheric Commons |
| Oliver Tickell compares different schemes for allocating carbon emissions |
| Over Our Heads |
| Who owns the weather, asks Sophie Andrews, and what are they doing with it? |
| Land Reform for the Sea |
| Alastair McIntosh and David Thomson speak up for small scale fisheries |
| The Fat of the Land |
| Sanderine Nonhebel’s work on the veg-oil/meat nexus is explored by Simon Fairlie |
| Slow Evolution is Co-Evolution |
| The second half of Edward Lloyd’s essay on transhumanism. |
| Parkinson’s Disease |
| Simon Fairlie finds Parkinson’s Law popping up all over the place |
| After the Crash |
| Rebecca Laughton rediscovers John Seymour’s novel about rural life after oil |
| Farmers of Forty Centuries |
| Ian Cook reviews FH King’s clssic work on SE Asian farming methods |
| Many Logs to Make a Blaze |
| Alastair McIntosh on the significance of kindling wood |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Fair Trade Housing |
| The Office of Fair Trading’s new report on housing is enthusiastic about self-build |
| Could Be Cheaper? |
| We compare some affordable housing projects |
| Urban Dentistry |
| Gaps in the city skyline |
| LID: Getting the Policy Right |
| Part of Chapter 7’s submission to the Welsh affordable housing consultation |
| Wise and Smart |
| Shelter Publications’ new book on Pacific Coast Building |
| A Touch of Class |
| A wee book on benders by Laugh |
| The Book of Benders |
| Preview of an as yet unwritten work |
| Hard Times |
| Why the recession should improve planners’ performance |
| Appeal and Planning Decisions |
| Babergh, Lammas, Brithdir Mawr etc; and the worst appeal decision ever? |
| Two Cowboys and a White Knight |
| Vindictive behaviour by Mid Devon DC |
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The Land Issue 5 Summer 2008 OUT OF PRINT
| Basic Banalities |
| Who is responsible for blanding England? |
| New Wine in Old Green Bottles |
| Will recycling the New Towns concept make them greener? |
| And Now for Something Completely the Same |
| Jim Paton dusts off some archives. |
| Return to Mother India |
| Jyoti Fernandes finds that the Gandhian movement in India is down, but not out. |
| The Transhuman Agenda |
| Edward Lloyd reminds us what lies at the end of the techno-capitalist project. |
| Stockfree Britain |
| Jennie Hall describes how a vegan countryside might be structured. |
| Corrections and Feedback to "Can Britain Feed Itself" |
| Default Livestock Farming |
| How meat and livestock can fit into a sustainable farming weigh carbon emission savings. |
| The Plight of the Pig in the Nanny State |
| Despite the swill ban, the cottagers pig will return reckons Simon Fairlie |
| The Kiss of DEFRA |
| The vet posse swoop on a tactless pig-keeper |
| MUSCLE POWER |
| The Rehabilitation of Manual Labour |
| Simon Fairlie examines the prejudice against physical work |
| Energy, Equity and the Bicycle |
| Excerpts from Ivan Illich's treatise on transport. |
| Kicking the Pink Diesel Habit |
| Rebecca Laughton on farming with muscle power. |
| The Nature of Manual Skill |
| There’s more to it than some might think, says Simon Fairlie. |
| Small Farmers’ Journal |
| By any standards a fine magazine |
| The Cuban Ox Revival |
| Roberto Sanchez Medina on the use of animal power during Cuba’s “special period” |
| Polish Horsepower, Peasants and Politics |
| Horsepower is viable for many Polish farmers, says Julian Rose |
| Horse Carts Banned in Romania |
| Julian Ross calls for the repeal of a dismally short-sighted law |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| The Two Cultures Behind Government Energy Policy |
| Two documents, two contrasting policies |
| The Planning Bill |
| The continuing story of the neo-liberal bid to undermine the public inquiry system |
| Boulot, Dodo but No Metro |
| A glance at government and developers approaches to live/work |
| Skewed Towards Demolition |
| Will the drive for zero-carbon buildings increase the destruction of old ones? |
| We Can’t Build Our Way Out |
| Andrew George MP has interesting proposals for solving the affordable housing crisis |
| Yesterday’s Tomorrow |
| Stephen E Hunt compares the proposed Barratt’s ecovilage with the Garden City suburbs |
| Transitional Therapy |
| Sophie Andrews has mixed reactions to the Transition Handbook |
| Up and Running Again |
| Jyoti Fernandes and Sophie Andrews watch two communities re-invent themselves |
| English Planning Disease Spreads to France |
| The French start to crack down on yurts and shacks |
| A Place in the Country |
| Where "open countryside" is a 24 acre fast-food factory |
| An Exemplary Appeal Decision |
| Smallholders and Group Projects |
| Selected decisions |
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The Land Issue 4 Winter 2007 OUT OF PRINT
| Editorial |
| The Rising Cost of Housing . . . and of Land |
| SQUATTING AND LAND TITLING |
| A Letter |
| from Kevin Cahill author of Who Owns the World |
| Papers for Paupers |
| Robert Home and Hilary Lim assess whether land-titling will lift squatters and settlers from poverty |
| Why Poor People are Evicted |
| A swift round-the-world survey |
| The Ministry of Housing Crisis |
| The French respond to rising house prices in the spirit of 1968 |
| Has Anyone Seen My Planet? |
| asks Geonomist |
| FARMING |
| The FAO’s Long Shadow |
| The claim that livestock cause 18% of global warming is exaggerated, says Simon Fairlie |
| Out of the Frying Pan |
| A Nobel prize-winner claims that N2O emissions from biofuel outweigh carbon emission savings |
| A View from the South |
| Some observations from Third World Resurgence on the spread of biofuels |
| Can Britain Feed Itself? |
| And can we feed ourselves with organic agriculture?. Simon Fairlie investigates |
| Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? |
| What direction should the organic movement take if it can’t? |
| Cashing in on Organics |
| Christina Ballinger examines whether the organic boom is benefiting small farmers |
| Grumbles from the Grassroots |
| Jyoti Fernandes raises questions about organic certification: Francis Blake responds |
| The Richness of Nature |
| Dave Bangs visits a rewilded farm which doubles up as a playground for the wealthy. |
| Imperial Takeover |
| Mark Brown, Rebecca Laughton and Sean Furey explain how Wye College was asset-stripped. |
| The Scandal of Agricultural Tied Dwellings |
| Why is this loophole for speculators allowed to continue? |
| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
| Write Your Own Low Impact Policy |
| Chapter 7’s submission to W Dorset local development framework. |
| A Home for LID in Wales |
| Is there a place for low impact policies in Welsh planning guidance? asks Mark Dyson |
| The Car and the Countryside |
| James Shorten on why rural living is regarded as unsustainable. |
| Mr Urbs and Mr Rus |
| Which is more sustainable, the town or the country? It depends who you are and what you want. |
| Two Cheers for Sherford |
| Tim Gorringe thinks planners have got some things right with a new town near Plymouth |
| Affordable Housing Policy Relaxed |
| Are there changes in the rural exception site policy? |
| Small is Visionary |
| The German planning system favours green self-builders, report Brian and Sibylle Rushbridge |
| APPEALS |
| Three examples of the planning system victimizing aging smallholders; Sustainability Brings Victory for Keveral Farm and Land Matters;Five woodland homes deemed to conform to the “Country House Policy”; Whither Policy 52? Three applications have been made under Pembs Low Impact Policy, and three have been refused. |
| Book Reviews |
| How to Live Off Grid by Nick Rosen, reviewed by Tony Wrench; Ecovillage: New Frontiers for Sustainability by Jonathan Dawson, reviewed by Molly Scott Cato; Natural Building by Tom Woolley |
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The Land Issue 3 Spring 2007 OUT OF PRINT
| COMMENT |
| Rioting for Austerity |
| No false messiahs, thank-you, but a voice crying in the wilderness might be helpful. |
| Very Angry Potatoes |
| If GM is spreading all around the world, all the more reason for keeping the UK GM free. |
| The Barker Review of Planning |
| The Treasury economist carries on gnawing away at democracy. |
| TLIO DRAFT POLICY STATEMENT |
| The Right Wing Campaign against the Planning System |
| The Land Is Ours distances itself from neo-liberals. |
| Nice Facts, Pity about the Ideas |
| Review of Kevin Cahill’s Who Owns the World. |
| ENERGY |
| Apocalypse Soon? |
| A review of the latest books from James Lovelock and George Monbiot. |
| Power Cut |
| Predictions of panic when the lights go out. |
| Anarchy in New York |
| HV Morton’s classic article on the New York black-out. |
| Letters |
| Taking to the hills; and on-farm bio-fuel production. |
| The Future of the Intercity Coach |
| Alan Storkey explains how coaches could be made quick, efficient and comfy. |
| UTOPIAN SETTLEMENTS |
| Pirate's Paradise |
| Larry Law’s account of a pirate’s republic in Madagascar. |
| The Rise and Fall of Ruskin Commonwealth |
| John Egerton tells the story of a 19th century Utopian fiasco. |
| Chartist Land Colonies |
| Chris Coates explains the failure of Feargus O’Connor’s ambitious land settlement scheme. |
| Ecoville |
| Tony Gosling uncovers plans for a 1990s eco-settlement. |
| La Borie Noble |
| Rebecca Laughton visits a fifty-year-old community in France. |
| Lammas |
| Jenny Pickerell and Larch Maxey outline the careful preparations for a new settlement in S Wales. |
| HOUSING |
| Urban Clearance |
| Different approaches to “regenerating” terraced housing in Liverpool and Salford |
| Housing Monitor |
| REITS; EDMOs; and Titnore Woods. |
| Land Access |
| Fordhall Farm; Register of Surplus Land. |
| PLANNING POLICY |
| How to influence your Local Plan |
| Lucy Nichol explains the new development plans and how to have input. |
| Eco-neighbourhoods |
| Planning policies for super-sustainability, proposed by the Cohousing Network. |
| PPS3 |
| The new government policy for housing promotes greenfield development by the back door. |
| Rural Baron builds Industrial Estate |
| Former CLA President Ewen Cameron benefits from CLA-inspired policies. |
| How I became a Travelling Planner |
| Simon Ruston, caravan dweller, describes his education in planning. |
| Not fit for Website Forum |
| The ministry refused to accept this submission from Tony Thompson on traveller site design. |
| Climate Change Planning Statement |
| Tough on buildings but ignores traffic. |
| Holiday Home Sophistry |
| New model conditions rule that holiday caravans are only for people with another home. |
| APPEALS |
| Hermit’s Corner; John van Loggerenberg on shacks;Argyll planners want to evict at least 20 families, and turn local residences into holiday homes; batty arguments about a reader’s barn. |
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The Land Issue 2 Summer 2006 OUT OF PRINT
| Contents awaiting upload |
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The Land Issue 1 Spring 2006 OUT OF PRINT
| Contents awaiting upload |
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