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Bridging Policy and Practice ; Advancing Justice in Community Land Use Planning in Kenya
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and background Community land rights in Kenya have endured historical and contemporary pressures since the colonial period. The imposition of English statutory tenure systems alongside African customary tenure established a dualistic ...
Mwenda, Robert Kibugi
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The Land Question in Amazonia: Cadastral Knowledge and Ignorance in Brazil’s Tenure Regularization Program [PDF]
, 2015 In the Brazilian Amazon, a quest˜ao fundi´aria (the land question) has been asked and answered in a variety of ways since the region was opened up tolarge-scale migration and development projects in the 1960s.
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Interplay of land governance and large-scale agricultural investment: Evidence from Ghana and Kenya [PDF]
, 2013 Recognising the increased demand for agricultural land, this comparative analysis examines the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on their surrounding institutional environment.
Nolte, Kerstin, Väth, Susanne Johanna
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Brazil Land Governance Assessment [PDF]
, 2014 This report on the assessment of land governance in Brazil summarizes and discusses the results of a series of standardized self-assessments of the land governance situation in Brazil, conducted entirely by Brazilian speakers. Therefore, these findings represent the perception of local experts
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Examining Connections between Gendered Dimensions of Inequality and Deforestation in Nepal [PDF]
, 2019 The United Nations recognizes empowering women as a key component of achieving numerous development-related goals. Qualitative studies suggest that communities where men and women have equal levels of agency over resource allocation and land tenure ...
Shafron, Ethan S
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Urban governance and planning for Economic growth [PDF]
Governance in short is a shift from bureaucratic process to shared power for the people. Governance in the urban areas goes hand in hand with planning. Issues of governance cannot be dealt with completely without proper planning. However, planning in the
Baafi Antwi, Joseph +1 more
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Reform or Reversal: the Impact of REDD+ Readiness on Forest Governance in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Indonesia has turned its alleged role as global leader of land-based carbon emissions into a role as a global trailblazer exploring modalities for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ ).
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Questioning de Soto: The Case of Uganda [PDF]
The 1995 constitution vested land in the Citizens of Uganda. Accordingly, in 1998, the Parliament passed a law to re-regulate the myriad land relations accreted from past and contemporary de jure laws and de facto practices.
Porter, Raewyn Isabel
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Collaborative governance case studies: the Land and Water Forum [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the progress of the Land and Water Forum, which was a stakeholder-led collaborative governance process established to recommend potential reform of New Zealand’s fresh water management. Introduction: Looking at collaborative processes
Elizabeth Eppel
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Vadose Zone JournalDegraded peatlands release large amounts of greenhouse gases. The development of effective mitigation and management measures requires an understanding of relevant site‐specific biogeochemical and hydraulic processes.
Mariel F. Davies +3 more
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