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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1997
    Canada, United States of America, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand

    The study identifies measures that have created property rights in the Danish, Dutch and UK fishery sector. Property in this respect is not considered as an asset in the stock of fish but as a stream of benefits, resulting from the right to fish. The limited access to the fishery by the vessel licence and by the recognition as a commercial fisherman have created two forms of property rights in the Danish fishery. In the Netherlands, the national TACs for the individual species have been transformed into transferable individual quota (ITQs).

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 1997
    United Kingdom, Western Europe, Global

    This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life. This must reflect the fact that certain types of participation such as 'informal' and/or local political participation are often those in which women take the lead, providing them with a sense of personal power.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1997
    Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Albania, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands

    The registration system of immovable property in Albania was chosen for four basic reasons: (1) it protects the right of immovable property owners by providing strong and reliable evidence about ownership and other interests in immovable properties; (2) it is simple and inexpensive to administer and maintain; (3) it provides the public with easily accessible information which they need to buy and sell, mortgage, and rent immovable property, thereby providing the basis for a market-oriented economy; and, (4) it permits the building of a Geographical Information System with property informati

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Fiji, Switzerland, United States of America, Chile, China, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Korea, Uruguay, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Myanmar, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Asia, Oceania

    An overview of the state of forestry in New Zealand with details of the social and economic environment, forest resources and forest industries. The country's forest policies, institutions and forestry initiatives are outlined. Annexes provide the countries most important forestry statistics.

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