Essays about: "land tenure"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 66 essays containing the words land tenure.

  1. 1. Improving land tenure security by increasing access?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Freeman Gunnell; [2023]
    Keywords : land tenure security; international institutions; World Bank; legal tenure systems; customary tenure; exclusion; access; policy discourse.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Securing access to land around the world is an issue that pervades many development agendas. Often promoted through legal and administrative systems, secure land tenure is used in the battle against poverty and to reduce land based conflict. Conceptualizations of secure tenure tend to differ between international institutions and academia. READ MORE

  3. 2. Land grabbing in Ghana - A false promise? : Neo-colonialism or a development opportunity?

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

    Author : Olivia Albers; Suhuur Anwar Muhammed; [2023]
    Keywords : : Land grabbing; Neo-colonialism; Development opportunity; Ghana; Brong-Ahafo; Ashanti; Volta; Customary land tenure system; Nkrumah;

    Abstract : A global land rush developed during the last decade, spared primiarly by the sharp rise inglobal food prices between 2007 and 2008. The inceased international food prices resulted inincreased interest from foreign actors to invest in agricultural land in developing countries inthe global south. READ MORE

  4. 3. Understanding Residents’ Decision-Making in Urban Regeneration: A Case Study of Kale Neighborhood in Çorum, Turkey

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Ethan Claney; [2023]
    Keywords : urban regeneration; decision-making; Turkey; peripheral communities; squatter neighbourhoods; neoliberal authoritarianism; Gramsci; consent and coercion;

    Abstract : This study examines the decision-making processes of residents in Turkey’s urban regeneration projects employing a single case study, namely, Çorum’s Kale neighbourhood. Çorum is a city with 250,000 inhabitants located in Black Sea Region. READ MORE

  5. 4. Blandstaden som planeringsideal för socialt hållbar stadsutveckling : en inblick i gentrifierings- och segregationsprocesser

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Roxana Ghiaei Moghaddam; [2023]
    Keywords : socialt hållbar stadsutveckling; planeringsideal; segregation; gentrifiering; blandstad; integration;

    Abstract : Agenda 2030 förespråkar för en socialt hållbar stadsutveckling på global nivå. För att kunna utvärdera arbetet med hållbarhetsmålen undersöks effekterna av dagens samhällsplanering utifrån fem centrala begrepp: social hållbarhet, planeringsprinciper, segregation, gentrifiering och blandstaden. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mara Glas; [2022]
    Keywords : biodiversity economy; sustainable use; international conservation finance; community-based conservation; economic development; wildlife economics; South Africa; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE