Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.

Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation, 1924-1938 (review)

Abstract: “[p]re-modern Japan was the ultimate salvage society” (p. 145), but I was left wanting to know more. In terms of scholarship, the book makes extensive use of primary sources, including archival collections. Most of them are in Dutch, not Japanese, to which some scholars may object. Actually, however, this is one of the book’s great strengths because it gives readers access to a wealth of information not previously available in English. Chaiklin has also assembled an impressive variety of secondary sources in English, Dutch, and Japanese. (How many other scholars of Japanese history, I wonder, have utilized Peepshows: A Visual History, or gone through back issues of Gun Collector magazine?) As a physical specimen, the book is quite attractive and, for the most part, wellproduced. The text is significantly enhanced by numerous photographs of objects in the collection of the Milwaukee Public Museum, where the author was previously employed. Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture does suffer from a number of printing errors, especially in the notes and bibliography; one particularly glaring example is on page 269, where the notes for “Chapter 8. Firearms: Rejection or Control?” are mistakenly listed under “Chapter 8. Conclusions.” Also, in common with many books published in the Netherlands, the first lines of paragraphs are not indented, which I found confusing. To compound matters, in chapter 8, several block quotes are mistakenly set flush with the left margin (see especially pp. 161–63), making them typographically indistinguishable from the main text. These minor criticisms aside, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture is an important and timely study. I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone interested in premodern Japanese foreign relations or material culture. As noted earlier, however, finding a copy will be easier said than done. Is it too much to ask that another, more sales-oriented press might pick up the rights to this book and reprint it (perhaps after fixing the typos and paragraph formatting) for wider circulation? I hope not.

Leasehold forestry: an endeavour to reduce poverty.

Abstract: Nepal's forests, occupying almost 40% of the total area, represent key resources for facilitating land-based economic improvements in the country At the same time, Nepal, with its hilly and fragile environment, cannot do without the environmental services provided by its forests Thus, there is a tested, new concept which marries forest management with agricultural management Degraded forest land is leased out to groups of the poorest people, securing them long-term land use rights, whereas ownership is vested in the government in order to meet the twin objectives of poverty alleviation and environmental amelioration This concept has been successfully implemented for twelve years and has yielded positive results While community forestry has been able to improve the health of forests and the local environment, it's suitability for tackling poverty alleviation was questionable In view of this, leasehold forestry is seen to be a more povertyfocused approach to managing degraded forest lands and would complement the efforts made under the CF programme This paper, by analysing the current situation, tries to establish complementarities between community forestry and leasehold forestry so that greater numbers of poverty-stricken people can benefit than heretofore