Urban agriculture has been theorized by social scientists, and even some urban growers, as a means of reclaiming the commons. But what does “reclaiming the commons” entail? A longue-durée genealogy reveals distinct socio-legal imaginations of the commons and visions of how it might be reclaimed.

For two decades, increasing concerns about urban sustainability have driven Australian metropolitan planning efforts to call for fundamental changes to existing urban forms. These changes are intended to develop more compact cities characterised by a poly-nodal network of dense activity centres.

In this paper I will examine how logging in Papua New Guinea affects the relationship between the state and the local communities on whose lands logging operations take place.

Management of environmental externalities of agricultural production has become a necessity to attain sustainable resource use and efficient use of resources.

Increasing diversity of urban activity attracts many people to try their fate in urban areas so as to heighten the flow of urbanization. This resulted in a large demand for land supply to accommodate the increasing number of city dwellers.