Taking Land: Compulsory Purchase and Regulation in Asian-Pacific Countries

by David L. Callies and Tsuyoshi Kotaka

The Asia-Pacific region with its rapid urbanization has generated an immediate need for both land use control and compulsory purchase by national and local governments. This book takes a comparative look at land use laws in ten Asia-Pacific countries (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand) as well as in the United States. A land use scholar from each country describes and analyzes compulsory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825195
• ISBN13: 9780824825195
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"