Land Use category: 92 books
Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity
A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs into a development opportunity by improving land governance...
Land Law Reform in Eastern Africa: Traditional or Transformative?
A critical review of 50 years of land law reform in Eastern Africa 1961 – 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Land Law Reform in East Africa reviews development and changes in the statutory land laws of 7 countries in Eastern Africa over the period 1961 – 2011. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 sets up the conceptual framework for consideration of the reforms, and pursues a contrast between transformational...
by Edward T. McMahon, Mike McQueen, The Conservation Fund
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Written by two of the nation's leading experts on land conservation, Land Conservation Financing provides a comprehensive overview of successful land conservation programs -- how they were created, how they are funded, and what they've accomplished -- along with detailed case studies from across the...
Gaining Ground?
Rights and Property in South African Land Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested.
Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing...
Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice
Rethinking Parks and People
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand,...
Trespassing
An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature” (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild...
Investing in Nature
Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
In 2004, U.S. consumers sp$5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the governmonly invested 5 percof that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we reverse the direction of such powerful economic forces?A...
Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership
Indigenous Land Reform in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous landowners...
Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium
Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. Following from volume one Southern African Development Community Land Issues, this book considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development...
by Simon Gardner, Ms Emily MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The rules of land law are numerous, complex, and in some cases baffling to students. The study of land law is also often portrayed as dull. Too frequently those who find success in working out how the law operates in other areas find themselves defeated by land law. Even the great jurist Blackstone,...
by Martin Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Dispelling any apprehension about the subject’s formidability from the outset, this compact textbook...
New Perspectives on Land Registration
Contemporary Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Land Registration Act 2002 has been in force for almost fifteen years. When enacted, the legislation, which replaced the Land Registration Act 1925, was intended to offer a clear and lasting framework for the registration of title to land in England and Wales. However, perhaps confounding the...
by Simon Gardner, Ms Emily MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Gardner and MacKenzie's An Introduction to Land Law has been widely acclaimed by students and teachers for the distinctively informative and stimulating way in which it addresses this challenging subject.
Concise and highly readable, it covers the main points of land law found in the syllabuses...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National...