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Author:   Roy Jones (Curtin University, Australia) ,  Alexandre M.A. Diniz (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138052260

ISBN 10:   1138052264
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: The Lives and Legacies of Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes 2. Conceptualizing the Frontier 3. Policy Mobilities and Land Settlement Schemes: The Emergence of Homesteading in Western Australia 4. Jewish Farm Settlements and the Jewish Colonization Association in Western Canada 5. Soldier Settlement and the Expansion and Contraction of the Bush Frontier in New Zealand in the 1920s 6. Western Australia’s Interwar Group Settlement Scheme: A Case Study of the Leeds Group 1923-1938 7. The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Sponsored Agricultural Settlement at Vermilion, Alberta, Canada 8. Fordland and Belterra Yesterday and Today: A Regional Political Ecology Approach to Failed Projects in the Amazon 9. Physical and Social Engineering in the Dutch Polders: The Case of the Noordoostpolder10. The Elusive Dream of ‘Development’ on the Agricultural Land Settlement Schemes in Papua New Guinea 11. The Complexities of the Brazilian Amazon Frontier and its Most Recent Chapter: Soybean Expansion in Roraima 12. Conclusion: Relatively Recent Rural Settlement Schemes – Representations, Realities and Results

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Roy Jones is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where he has worked since 1970. He is an historical geographer with research interests in heritage, tourism and rural and regional change. Alexandre M. A. Diniz is a Professor in the Graduate Program in Geography at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His major research interests are in human geography, primarily on agricultural frontiers, crime geography and regional geography with an emphasis on the Brazilian Amazon.

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