The Land Issue 11 Winter 2011-12
| COMMENT |
| The Great Bovine TB Cover-up |
| Cute badgers, sick cows, and unhelpful rules. |
| Greenest Government Ever? |
| No prizes for guessing the answer. |
| Get Real |
| It’s time the countryside occupied the Stock Exchange. |
| NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES |
| Wikileaks Exposes GM lobbying; WTO Claims Free Markets Bring Food Security; Fighting Back against Land Grabbing; Profiting from Rising Food Prices; Good News on CAP?; Occupy Everywhere |
| ARE WE REALLY GODS? |
| Another God Delusion?. |
| Mike Hannis on the pessimism of Mark Lynas. |
| Open Source Biotech |
| Can we resist GM if it goes viral? asks Simon Fairlie. |
| THE FUTURE OF FORESTS |
| A Sense of Ownership |
| Robin Maynard puts the case for keeping forests public. |
| In Woods We Trust |
| Dave Bangs wonders which side the NGOs are on. |
| Who Needs It? |
| Mike Abbott thinks we could do without the Forestry Commission. |
| Could Try Harder |
| Mike Gardner speaks up for independent foresters. |
| The More we are Together |
| Can subdivision of woodlands lead to their cohesion? |
| Small Woodland Livings |
| Getting back to work in the woods. |
| “Britain’s New Forest Villages” |
| Accommodation for forest workers, past and present. |
| Seeing the Forest, not Just the Trees |
| Trees are not the only vegetation, says Helen Baczkowska. |
| Tree Fetishism |
| Think before you plant, cautions Simon Fairlie. |
| Agroforestry in the UK |
| Ed Hamer finds that farming under trees can work very nicely. |
| Wood is Good? |
| Can it really be carbon neutral to burn wood in power stations, asks Mike Hannis. |
| Biomass — A Burning Issue |
| Nick Grant and Alan Clarke on the contradictions of biomass boilers. |
| Has Biochar Gone too Far? |
| Gill Barron gives a ground-level perspective on charcoal. |
| Back to the Trees |
| Robert Somerville, architect and timber framer, on using what we’ve got. |
| A Forest Uprising |
| Gill Barron finds a precedent for rural revolution. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| See You on the Streets, Amigos |
| Gill Barron’s outrage at the Tory’s squattting ban. |
| Land Registry Privatisation |
| The new Public Data Corporation will be more corporate than public. |
| Salad Days |
| The rise, fall and possible rebirth of the Land Settlement Association. |
| Tyrannosaurus Regs |
| Is there life after planning? No, there are building regulations, warns Simon Dale. |
| Blunt Instruments |
| How the BREEAM Code for Sustainable Homes discriminates against low impact dwellings. |
| Working Against Nature |
| Chapter 7 responds to Nick Grant and Alan Clarke. |
| One Planet Footprint |
| Simon Fairlie asks why no one is looking at edge-of-settlement One Planet Developments. |
| Planning Policy Framework |
| No one is taken in by the Tory presumption in favour of sustainable development. |
| Neighbourhood Planning on Exmoor |
| James Shorten reports on a pilot exercise in “localism”. |
| New Enforcement Powers |
| The Localism Act contains some worrying measures. |
| Development Control |
| Mostly concerning Mid Devon. |
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