03351namaa2200589uu 4500 oapen92907 oapen 20251217011848.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240904s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003494966 9781032800035 9781032800042 10.4324/9781003494966 doi oapen oapen eng dc A thema AM thema AMV thema AMVD thema Geschewski, Hanna aut Contested Airport Land Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of socioeconomic, administrative, and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of greenfield development, the airport city, or land resources reserved for future airport expansion. The authors in this book emphasise why airport construction is a politically sensitive issue in low-income and low-middle-income countries, which serve as the last development frontier of the aviation sector. They argue that observed airport development was rather motivated by the perception of airports as engines for national economic growth, while improving air mobility of national populations was not the main driver. Under dominant national development visions, airport-induced dynamics threatened local livelihoods by triggering economies of anticipation, the reconfiguration of land markets, rapid land use changes, a transition from rural to urban livelihoods, the displacement of communities, the perpetuation of human-wildlife conflicts, or inter-ethnic violence. The authors also highlight colonial path dependencies; legal pluralism in land tenure; the hegemonic relations between builders, investors, and the affected residents; as well as strategies of local protest movements. This book is recommended for readers interested in infrastructure-induced conflicts and environmental injustice. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Architecture thema City and town planning: architectural aspects thema Landscape architecture and design thema The Arts thema airport-induced injustice aviation sector development Global South land conflict multi-level governance protest movement Geschewski, Hanna edt Ittner, Irit edt Khambule, Isaac edt Sharma, Sneha edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92907 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36965 36965