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Buying Back Scotland
Community buy-outs and the Scottish Land Funds
Peter Gibb
Geophilos, Issue No 2 (1), Spring 2002,
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The land reform agenda in Scotland prescribes another approach to the
incremental transformation of the nation-state. The legal opportunity for
communities to reclaim land from the modern feudalists is reviewed by Peter
Gibb.
The land buy-back law [Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003] may not deliver
system-wide benefits fast enough, but it arouses a consciousness that could
elevate political discourse to realms of action that would deliver justice and
economic equity for everyone within the present generation. Although currently
restricted to rural property, the Scottish law may animate the imaginations of
politicians in favour of a generalised solution that also embraces the
territorial interests of town dwellers.
In this article a set of clear proposals are outlined that would reform the
Scottish Land Funds by making them: more equitable; more resource efficient and
thus capable of serving a greater number of communities; and more sustainable
over the long-term.
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