The Land Trap

3 Nov 2025 Mike Bird's new book, The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset, reveals land's unique traits and its essential role in political

16 Apr 2026 land on which housing sits. More specifically, on how we treat it. In The Land Trap he makes a powerful case, and in a way that is

30 Oct 2025 The Land Trap:A New History of the World's Oldest Asset by Mike Bird | 6th November 2025. LONGLISTED FOR THE FT AND SCHRODERS. BUSINESS BOOK

7 Mar 1971 Do you know of any national leaders who understand these problems? They are rare. Almost every national government has fallen into the trap of

I suggest that disaster traps are likely strongest in tourism-dominated coastal settings with high exposure to tropical cyclones and colonial histories of

Malthus' perspective on economic and demographic development was extremely pessimistic. According to his model, resources in an agricultural economy (land

This 'trap' of inefficient land use was reflected in many responses, as a barrier to the development of critical infrastructure and new homes, a threat to

73 Once again, this deal keeps Suriname trapped in oil exploitation whilst being incentivised to maximise oil revenues. Debt Justice | The debt-fossil fuel trap

Both. TRYFONAS LEMONTZOGLOU. 16. THE JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY. Page 8. the Byzantine and the Ottoman land tenure systems were strictly characterized

8 Feb 2021 The question is whether the bimodality is symptomatic of a poverty trap, namely whether poor people do casual jobs and hold nearly no productive

The development trap indicators generate the first detailed and dynamic picture of the phenomenon of development traps in the EU at a regional level. The Report

The LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development was launched in March 2017 to guide policy to address state fragility

Red squirrels once would have been widespread in parks and gardens throughout the towns in Merseyside and Lancashire, but presently, the majority are found

30 Sept 2020 in African countries particularly in Ethiopia, and to address the land grabbing and debt-trap diplomacy between Ethiopia and the Asian

types of system traps become coupled: a gilded trap, in which a local economy becomes tourist industry, the land of Barbuda is held in common among Barbudans

Why record and trap grey squirrels? Our native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is at significant risk of being displaced by the introduced eastern American grey

8 Jan 2026 Appeal Ref: APP/J1535/C/23/3335040. The Mole Trap PH, Tawney Common, Stapleford Tawney Epping, Essex, CM16

A saltmarsh is formed when bare mud is colonised over time by plants and gradually the land rises above sea level. also help to trap sediment. It has

Alfred von Tirpitz, State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office, was the architect of the Imperial German Navy and its challenge to the naval hegemon of his

4 May 2015 2015. A House Full of Trap Doors: Identifying barriers to resilient drylands in the toolbox of pastoral development. IIED discussion paper