| Three Cheers for the Recession |
| It’s what advocates of a zero growth economy have been waiting for |
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| Posture Politics and Colonial Fallout in Zimbabwe |
| Mark Brown assesses Robert Mugabe’s reputation and legacy |
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| Life After Land Reform |
| Ian Scoones examines the effects of redistribution of land in one area of Zimbabwe |
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| Reconstructing Serbia |
| Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan visit occupied factories in Serbia |
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| Before It’s Lost |
| A sketch of rural Serbia, by Rob MacCurrach |
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| International Land Struggles |
| Syngenta in Brazil, Chinese in Africa, divisions among exiled Tibetans etc |
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| An Ecosystem at Your Service |
| Sian Sullivan explains the thinking behind "ecosystem services" |
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| Managing Atmospheric Commons |
| Oliver Tickell compares different schemes for allocating carbon emissions |
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| Over Our Heads |
| Who owns the weather, asks Sophie Andrews, and what are they doing with it? |
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| Land Reform for the Sea |
| Alastair McIntosh and David Thomson speak up for small scale fisheries |
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| The Fat of the Land |
| Sanderine Nonhebel’s work on the veg-oil/meat nexus is explored by Simon Fairlie |
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| Slow Evolution is Co-Evolution |
| The second half of Edward Lloyd’s essay on transhumanism. |
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| Parkinson’s Disease |
| Simon Fairlie finds Parkinson’s Law popping up all over the place |
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| After the Crash |
| Rebecca Laughton rediscovers John Seymour’s novel about rural life after oil |
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| Farmers of Forty Centuries |
| Ian Cook reviews FH King’s clssic work on SE Asian farming methods |
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| Many Logs to Make a Blaze |
| Alastair McIntosh on the significance of kindling wood |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
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| Fair Trade Housing |
| The Office of Fair Trading’s new report on housing is enthusiastic about self-build |
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| Could Be Cheaper? |
| We compare some affordable housing projects |
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| Urban Dentistry |
| Gaps in the city skyline |
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| LID: Getting the Policy Right |
| Part of Chapter 7’s submission to the Welsh affordable housing consultation |
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| Wise and Smart |
| Shelter Publications’ new book on Pacific Coast Building |
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| A Touch of Class |
| A wee book on benders by Laugh |
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| The Book of Benders |
| Preview of an as yet unwritten work |
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| Hard Times |
| Why the recession should improve planners’ performance |
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| Appeal and Planning Decisions |
| Babergh, Lammas, Brithdir Mawr etc; and the worst appeal decision ever? |
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| Two Cowboys and a White Knight |
| Vindictive behaviour by Mid Devon DC |
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