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Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holland, Margaret B.
Other Authors: Masuda, Yuta J., Robinson, Brian E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Boxes
  • 1: Property Rights, Tenure Form, and Tenure Security
  • A Common Thread Underpins Pressing Sustainability Challenges
  • Maasai Communities Around the Foothills of Mount Kenya
  • Definitions Affect How We Analyze Issues and Develop Solutions
  • References
  • 2: A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security
  • How Did We Get Here?
  • Development and Dispossession
  • Development Dynamics and Tenure Security Complexity
  • Vertical Power Interactions
  • Horizontal Social Interactions
  • Technological Dynamism
  • Catastrophes-Natural and Human-Induced
  • Historical Trends in the Ebb and Flow of Security and Insecurity
  • The Current Situation
  • References
  • 3: Who Defines Land Tenure Security? De Jure and De Facto Institutions
  • Introduction
  • Formal, State-Sponsored, De Jure Land Tenure
  • Local, Self-Governed, and De Facto Land Tenure
  • Informal Rights, Formalization, and Sustainability
  • References
  • 4: Indigenous and Customary Land Tenure Security: History, Trends, and Challenges in the Latin American Context
  • Why Indigenous and Customary Land Tenure?
  • Defining (Customary and Indigenous) Land Tenure Regimes
  • Pre-Colonial Land Tenure and Today's Customary Systems: A View from Latin America
  • Trends in Customary Land Tenure Regimes and their Recognition
  • Challenges to Securing Land Tenure for Customary and Indigenous Regimes
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: Championing Women's Tenure Security
  • Why Should We Care About Women's Tenure Security?
  • In Large Portions of the World Women Are Systematically Denied Access and Rights to Land
  • Tenure Insecurity Increases Women's Physical, Social, and Economic Vulnerability.
  • Gender-Blind Interventions Will Not Sufficiently Address Women's Tenure Constraints
  • Interventions That Enhance Women's Access to and Control Over Resources Are Likely to Lead to Better Outcomes for Women, Their Families, and Their Communities
  • The Scale of the Problem: How Many Women Are Tenure Insecure?
  • What Can Be Done to Address Women's Tenure Insecurity?
  • Who Are the Tenure Insecure Women?
  • Why Are Women Tenure Insecure?
  • What Can Be Done?
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 6: People-Land Relationships on the Path to Sustainable Food Security
  • LTS and Sustainable Food Security in the Global Development Rhetoric
  • Storylines and Evidence Emerge from a Look at the Literature
  • Aggregate Land Scarcity Exacerbated by Population Growth, Unsustainable Land Use, and Climate Change
  • Land Access and Inequality
  • Incentives and Risks
  • Gender
  • Shocks and Hazards
  • Illustrating the Case: Food Security Challenges and Patterns of Land Tenure in South Asia
  • Connecting the Dots between the LTS and Food Security in South Asia
  • From Global to Local: Evidence Supports Linking Efforts on LTS and Food Security
  • References
  • 7: A Complex Relationship: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Land Tenure Security
  • Land Tenure Security and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
  • Global Overview
  • Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Tenure Security Contextualized: A Case of Zambia
  • Does Weak Land Tenure Security Attract Investors in the Zambian Context?
  • Diversity of Outcomes of Land Acquisitions
  • Impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions on Land Tenure Security in Zambia
  • Displacements
  • Perception on Land Tenure Security
  • Pressure on the Zambian Land Tenure System
  • Outlook: LSLAs, Land Tenure Security, and Sustainable Development
  • References
  • 8: Tenure Security in War-Affected Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability.
  • Land Tenure Security and Armed Conflict: Before, During, After
  • From Tenure Insecurity to Armed Conflict
  • From Conflict to Tenure Insecurity
  • Opportunities for Post-war Land Tenure Security and Sustainability
  • Tenure Security Opportunities in Statutory Tenure Systems
  • Tenure Security Opportunities in Customary Tenure Systems
  • Lessons Learned for Afghanistan
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9: Land Tenure Insecurity and Climate Adaptation: Socio-Environmental Realities in Colombia and Implications for Integrated Environmental Rights and Participatory Policy
  • Winners and Losers in the Climate Change Landscape
  • The Tangled Web of Land Tenure Security and Adaptation
  • Complicated Land Tenure in Colombia (Past and Present)
  • Climate Adaptation Amidst Tenure Confusion: The Case of Montes de María, Colombia
  • Looking Forward: Considering Land Tenure and Climate Adaptation Together
  • References
  • 10: Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions
  • The Role of Tenure in PES Programs
  • The Wide Spectrum of Conditionality and Tenure Security
  • Tenure Interventions in the Context of the Dedicated Grant Mechanism
  • Successes and Pitfalls with Formalization of Tenure Rights in the Context of Conditional Incentives
  • References
  • 11: Strategies for Securing Tenure: The Promise and Pitfalls of Formalization
  • What Is Land Formalization and How Does It Connect with Tenure Security?
  • What Do We Mean by Land Formalization?
  • What Do We Know About How Formalization of Tenure Relates to Tenure Security?
  • Historical Approaches to Formalization in Latin America
  • State-Led Land Reform and Its Unrealized Promise in Latin America: Example of Ecuador
  • Evolving Generations of Land Reform and Formalization in Africa.
  • Land Reform and Formalization in the Era of Decentralization
  • A New Wave of Land Formalization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
  • Converging Drivers of Formalization and New Approaches
  • Formalization for Community Empowerment or Dispossession?
  • Formalization for Conservation and Climate Mitigation
  • Seeking Formal Recognition as a Form of Resistance to Land and Resource Development
  • Formalization as Legal Recognition of the Rights of Nature
  • Aligning Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Strengthening Tenure Security
  • References
  • 12: Securing Communal Tenure Complemented by Collaborative Platforms for Improved Participatory Landscape Management and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Northern Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya
  • The Relationships between Tenure, Sustainable Development, and Conservation
  • The Mara-Serengeti-Tarangire Ecosystem Chain: Two Case Studies across One Border
  • The Last Vestige of the Hadzabe: Tanzania's Last Hunter-Gatherers
  • Conversion to Agriculture and Land Grabs: The Loss of Hadzabe Lands and Resources
  • Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy: Retrofitting Communality to the Village Acts
  • Fragmenting the Manyatta: How Privatization and the Subdivision of Lands Blocked Collective Action on the Mara
  • Collaborative Civil Society: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association Busting down a Siloed Landscape and Breaking Tragedy of the Commons Mythology
  • Conclusions and Recommendations: Communal Tenure, Collaborative Platforms, Conservation Incentives, and Explicit Management Agreements
  • References
  • 13: Beyond the Traditional: Voluntary Market-Based Initiatives to Promote Land Tenure Security
  • The Causes of Forest Land Tenure Insecurities in Developing Countries
  • FSC Certification as a Way to Address Forest Land Tenure Insecurity and Promote Forest Conservation.
  • Is FSC the Panacea?
  • NGOs to the Rescue?
  • Ways Forward: The Role of Hybrid Partnerships
  • References
  • 14: Methods to Advance Understanding of Tenure Security: Impact Evaluation for Rigorous Evidence on Tenure Interventions
  • Identifying the Causal Impacts of Tenure Security Interventions
  • Articulating a Theory of Change
  • Collecting Data
  • Impact Evaluation: Key Concepts
  • Impact Evaluation: Key Strategies
  • Advancing Our Understanding of Tenure Security
  • References
  • 15: Emerging Research Needs and Policy Priorities for Advancing Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development
  • Significant Advances But Gaps Remain
  • An Urgent Need to Expand the Breadth and Depth of Studies on LTS Impacts
  • Testing New Policies to Accelerate Secure Tenure Across the World
  • Moving Forward, Quickly
  • References
  • Index.

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