A5067486751- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Rural development and sustainability
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Race, History, and American Society
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- American History and Culture
- African history and culture analysis
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- American Environmental and Regional History
George Mason University
2020-2025
Abstract In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real property ownership, focusing US. While there are many parallels interlinkages between phenomena, note that field generally produces a different literature for each space: one largely about housing another land . We argue foregrounding their common legal status as “real property” can help develop new important analyses unravel urban/rural binary. Such an approach suggests, instance,...
Abstract Conservation easements—voluntary legal agreements in which a landowner forfeits some development rights exchange for tax incentives—have become central part of efforts to limit the US. Given importance biodiversity conservation on private lands and rapid growth easements, they are often celebrated as win‐win scenario. However, there also increasing questions about ecological benefits easements. The kinds studies necessary better understand this issue challenging several reasons, is...
Inspired by geographical work on the right to city, there is nascent scholarly interest in a rural. Given that concept has proven useful urban context for both scholars and organizers, it indeed worth considering its intellectual political potential countryside. We survey use of city social movements, as well efforts apply this theoretical framework rural areas. proceed argue struggles over access space are compelling starting point developing rural, highlighting along way increasing...
Conservation easements, voluntary legal agreements whereby a landowner forfeits some of his or her land development rights in exchange for tax benefits, are an increasingly common strategy protecting from the United States today. For instance, 2005 to 2015, private under conservation easement increased by 175%, growing more than 16 million acres held trusts, which collectively endowed with $2.2 billion funding. Recent critical analyses this trend conceptualize easements as tool neoliberal...
AbstractBoth academic and popular sources have recently pointed to important changes in rural land ownership across the United States: from consolidation financialization racialized dispossession. Although are foundational themes geography, a wide range of disciplinary attention focuses on ownership, much basic empirical information about U.S. remains obscured—due large part difficulty accessing analyzing property data. This article draws our experiences with participatory action research...
Land trusts are increasingly powerful institutions of U.S. environmental governance that deserve more critical scrutiny. As charitable conservation organizations, they enjoy the many advantages nonprofit status under claim provide broad public benefits. Critics, however, have recently challenged this claim, portraying land as quintessential neoliberal privatization and hybrid governance. Through a conjunctural analysis across long twentieth century, with specific attention to first, Trustees...