Robert Home

Biographic Data

ID197091
NAMERobert Home
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEHome
SIGNATUREHOME R
AFFILIATIONSEast Sussex County Council
ORCID0000-0002-7950-6068
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS141
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • The Planning Perspectives Contribution to African Planning History

    Robert HomeARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2026

    The African continent is growing fast in population and rates of urbanization rates, but remains under-represented in published academic planning history research. This article reviews published research over some forty years (over sixty in Planning Perspectives and over a hundred elsewhere). The themes include the diversity of national planning traditions in the continent's over fifty nations, and particular issues: colonial public health, segre…

  • Integrating place attachment and social capital in land consolidation procedures for sustainable landscape development

    Open AccessAdrianna Czarnecka, Konrad Stępnik et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2026References: 46

    Land consolidation, especially when conducted in participatory processes, can improve the spatial and ownership structures of fragmented rural areas and thereby increase the economic viability of farms, reduce carbon footprints, and slow the spread of weeds. However, the community characteristics that enable land consolidation processes, and the factors that influence the fairness and acceptance of the outcomes, which should therefore be included…

  • Enlisting Biodiversity

    Open AccessRobert Home, Mirjam Schleiffer et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2026References: 1

    Discourses are linguistic expressions of socially constructed understandings of phenomena, which drive power dynamics by implicitly conveying values that may either support or suppress the interests of involved actors. Proponents of specific discourses often seek to establish their interpretation of a phenomenon as the predominant or sole narrative with the aim of furthering their own interests. This is particularly concerning when applied to com…

  • Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region

    Open AccessRiyad Fahkri, Aphrodite Smagadi et al.BOOKBiodiversity and Nature…2025

    This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the guiding principles and rules relating to biodiversity, nature conservation, and the protection of cultural heritage in the MENA region. The book introduces readers to the applicable legislation, institutions and rules underpinning the design, approval, financing and implementation of biodiversity and nature-based solutions across the MENA region. It also explores larger questions o…

  • News on Biodiversity? An Analysis of the Biodiversity Discourse in European News Outlets in 2010 and 2022

    Open AccessMirjam Schleiffer, Grania Cooke et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2025References: 1

  • Mixed method evaluation of factors influencing the adoption of organic participatory guarantee system certification among Vietnamese vegetable farmers

    Open AccessLina M Tennhardt, Robert Home et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2024Cited by: 1References: 7

    In markets where vegetables are commonly cultivated with heavy use of synthetic pesticides, it is particularly important for consumers to be able to identify genuine organic produce. Organic Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) certification offers smallholder farmers an affordable way to build trust among consumers and secure premium prices for their organic produce. In Vietnam, the demand for vegetables with no, or low, pesticide residues is g…

  • Smart Mixes for Sustainable Value Chain Management

    Open AccessMareike Weiner, Robert Home et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2023

    Fragmented governance of international value chains, operating in multiple jurisdictions, is insufficient to prevent social and environmental mismanagement. Smart Mixes, which are combinations of compulsory and voluntary measures, have been proposed as a possible means of securing environmental and social standards, but the concept has not been operationalized in the academic literature. We aim to identify the factors that have contributed to, or…

  • Systemic enablers and barriers to extending the productive life of dairy cows in Switzerland

    Open AccessManika Rödiger, Robert HomeARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2023Cited by: 2References: 5

    Research has shown that the economic and ecological optimum productive life of dairy cows is between six and seven lactations, but the current average length in Switzerland, and many other countries, is approximately half that figure. Reasons for culling can be unplanned, such as illness, or planned, such as to achieve breeding goals, but the reasons for the sub-optimal length of productive life are not fully understood. The aim of this study is …

  • Overcoming divergence

    Open AccessClaudia Vaderna, Robert Home et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022

    Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a producer–consumer union that aims to shift the predominant paradigm in agriculture towards a model based on social justice, fairness, and participation. However, the long-term existence of CSA initiatives, and their ability to build the social capital envisioned by the initiators, can be challenged by a struggle to generate a sufficient income for a fair salary to be paid to the producer. This study aime…

  • Returning Benin treasures

    Open AccessRobert HomeARTICLEJournal of African Cultural…2022

  • Motivations for swiss lowland farmers to conserve biodiversity

    Open AccessVanessa M Gabel, Robert Home et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2018References: 7

  • What’s in a name? Talking about urban peripheries

    Robert HomeARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2018Cited by: 3References: 1

    The critical study of place names (or toponymy) has developed strongly in recent years. This book now offers a welcome addition to that literature, moving beyond the western notion of urban sprawl

  • Urbanism and Master Planning

    Robert Home, Anthony King et al.CHAPTERArchitecture and Urbanism in the…2016

    This chapter addresses recent critical accounts of urban planning in the historic space of the British empire and with a particular focus on indigenous representations of the ‘colonial city’, drawing on recent historiographical developments and approaches of Said, Foucault, and others. An overview of the development of the colonial city in history is also given. Insights into the relationship between architecture, planning, and society highlight …

  • Transnational Aspects in the History of Lagos

    Open AccessLiora Bigon, Robert HomeCHAPTERPlace Names in Africa2016

  • Colonial Urban Planning in Anglophone Africa

    Robert HomeCHAPTERUrban Planning in Sub-Saharan…2015

    The chapter is focused on the former Spanish colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea, which have become part of global hyper capitalist processes, and due to their political stability are currently undergoing rapid economic growth processes which are similar to those happening in contemporary Africa and which have their roots on the historical period of colonization. This chapter analyses the production of social housing for the…

  • Motivations for implementation of ecological compensation areas on Swiss lowland farms

    Open AccessRobert Home, Oliver Balmer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2014Cited by: 19References: 10

  • Public perceptions of rural landscapes in land consolidation procedures in Poland

    Open AccessAdrianna Kupidura, Michał Łuczewski et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2014Cited by: 21References: 12

  • The challenges of innovation for sustainable agriculture and rural development

    Open AccessHeidrun Moschitz, Robert HomeARTICLEAction Research2014Cited by: 2References: 5

    The linear view of innovation in agricultural contexts is being replaced by systems approaches. Agricultural producers are seen as important actors rather than merely consumers of the technologies that are generated by agricultural research and transferred by education and extension services for subsequent adoption. This new understanding of innovation for sustainable agriculture is however not reflected within the European policy framework, so l…

  • Demystifying the Mystery of Capital

    Robert Home, Hilary LimBOOKDemystifying the Mystery of Capital2013

  • Lusaka

    Robert HomeBOOKStudies in International Planning…2013

    This short account of the planning of Lusaka as the new capital of Northern Rhodesia, written for its offi cial opening in 1935 as part of jubilee celebrations for King George V, was printed in a limited edition specifi cally for that event, and is now very scarce and diffi cult to obtain, but deserves to be made more widely available for scholars of planning and urban history, and especially all interested in African urban development. The plann…

  • Demystifying the Mystery of Capital

    Robert Home, Hilary LimBOOKDemystifying the Mystery of Capital2013

  • Culturally Unsuited to Property Rights?’

    Open AccessRobert HomeARTICLEJournal of Law and Society2013Cited by: 3

    Hernando de Soto, advocate of central registers of land rights, raised the possibility of Africans being culturally unsuited to property rights. This article argues that sub‐Saharan Africa's high proportion of tribal/communal land (as distinguished from private and public/state land) results from a combination of geography, history, and population distribution. External colonial rule created a dual system of land tenure that restrained private pr…

  • Psychosocial Outcomes as Motivations for Visiting Nearby Urban Green Spaces

    Robert Home, Marcel Hunziker et al.ARTICLELeisure Sciences2012Cited by: 3References: 22

    High-density urban living means that urban green spaces are important nodes of contact with nature. This study examines expected outcomes that motivate people to seek green spaces in urban settings. A sample of Swiss residents were presented with Shin, Kwon, Hammitt, and Kim's (2005 Shin, W., Kwon, H., Hammitt, W. and Kim, B. 2005. Urban forest park use and psychosocial outcomes: A case study in six cities across South Korea. Scandinavian Journal…

  • Colonial Township Laws and Urban Governance in Kenya

    Open AccessRobert HomeARTICLEJournal of African Law2012Cited by: 5References: 9

    Rapid population and urban growth in Africa pose severe challenges to development planning and management. This article argues that weak urban governance in Kenya results from the colonial legal order's shaping of urban form. Kenya's colonial laws, drawing from those in other British colonies (especially South Africa) and British statute law on local government, public health, housing and town planning, controlled African labour and movement, and…

  • God is an Absentee, Too’

    Haitam Suleiman, Robert HomeARTICLEThe Journal of Legal Pluralism…2009

    Waqf property (held in charitable trust for religious purposes) has been an important element in Muslim societies, and after a period of decline has emerged as a non-profit 'third' sector for minorities and in conditions of legal pluralism. This article, after briefly tracing the history of waqf, examines the large-scale transfer of waqf land in Israel/Palestine to Jewish control since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and places that …