Edited by Malcolm Combe, Jayne Glass, Annie Tindley
Land reform is as topical as ever in Scotland. Following the latest legislative development, the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016, there is a need for a comprehensive and comprehensible analysis of the history, developing framework and impact of Scottish land reform. Scholarly yet jargon-free, this landmark volume brings together leading researchers and commentators working in law, history and policy to analyse the past, present and future of Scottish land reform. It covers how Scotland’s land is regulated, used and managed; why and how this has come to pass; and makes some suggestions as to the future of land reform.
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List of ContributorsIntroduction Malcolm M. Combe, Jayne Glass and Annie Tindley
Part I: HistoryChapter 1: Land, labour and capital: external influences and internal responses in early modern Scotland. Allan MacinnesChapter 2: Agricultural enlightenment, landownership and Scotland’s culture of improvement, 1700-1820. Brian BonnymanChapter 3: The impact of agrarian radicalism on land reform in Scotland and Ireland, 1879-1903. Brian CaseyChapter 4: ‘The usual agencies of civilisation:’ conceptions of landownership and reform in the comparative context in the long nineteenth century. Annie TindleyChapter 5: Still on the agenda? The strange survival of the Scottish land question, 1880 to 1999. Ewen A. Cameron Part II: Law Chapter 6: History, law and land through the lens of sasine. Andrew R. C. SimpsonChapter 7: Legislating for community land rights. Malcom M. CombeChapter 8: Towards sustainable community ownership: a comparative assessment of Scotland’s new compulsory community right to buy. John A. LovettChapter 9: Property rights and human rights in Scottish land reform. Frankie McCarthyChapter 10: The evolution of sustainable development in Scotland – a case study of community right to buy regimes, 2003 to 2018. Andrea RossChapter 11: Scottish residential tenancies. Douglas BainChapter 12: Crofting law. Eilidh I. M. MacLellanChapter 13: Agricultural tenancy legislation and public policy considerations in Scotland. Hamish LeanPart III: PolicyChapter 14: Planning and rights: are there lessons for town planning we can borrow from land reform? Robert G. ReidChapter 15: Crofting policy and legislation: an undemocratic and illegitimate structure of domination? Iain MacKinnonChapter 16: Does size really matter? Sustainable development outcomes from different scales of land ownership. Jayne Glass, Steven Thomson and Rob Mc MorranChapter 17: Agricultural models in Scotland and Norway – a comparison. Annie McKee, Heidi Vinge, Hilde Bjørkhaug and Reidar Almås
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Land reform has of late loomed large, politically and legislatively, in Scotland. Academic analysis of the origins, nature and impact of reform has, in contrast, been sparse. This book’s authors, not least because of the widely varied perspectives they offer, have gone a long way to making good that deficiency.
This is a most welcome book; in part because of its contents which are as wideranging as they are illuminating; but in part, too, because the sheer breadth and scope of its contributions signals increased academic involvement with a policy area which, for far too long, attracted little such engagement... Everything here is of value.
This compilation is an excellent primer for those new to the subject but also offers interesting perspectives to consider for those more experienced in it.
Essential reading for anyone taking part in the ground-breaking shift in the land reform debate. This is a timely and important contribution from leading academics and lawyers analysing land reform, an issue which runs through the heart of Scottish politics.
Any successful action on land reform will require a multidisciplinary response, and in this regard, this volume provides a strong foundation for future progress.