When in roam
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The United Kingdom environment minister, Michael Meacher, has announced plans for legislation to give access to moors and hill country involving some 1.6 million hectares. This measure has popular support in the UK, and the cost in terms of maintaining stiles, paths and the like is low, at some $4.8 million annually. The Countryside Landowners Association opposes the measure. The government has lost an opportunity for a policy of access using the argument that urban taxpayers subsidize the countryside in a number of ways.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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The credibility of a threat to nationalize
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Research into the possibility of the African National Congress nationalizing the country's mineral reserves is presented. The paper estimates the annual probability of this threat and evaluates the use of expropriation probabilities in economic models of valuation.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0095-0696
Year: 2001
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The Islamic Gulag: slavery makes a comeback in Sudan
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Human rights activists in Sudan report human rights violation committed by the Islamic fundamentalist military group against Black non-Muslims. These range from sale of women and children as slaves to sexual abuse to forcible conversion and even summary execution.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1996
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