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Ravit Hananel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A tale of two neighborhoods: Toward a new typology of Land Rights
Land Use Policy, 2019Co-Authors: Harel Nachmany, Ravit HananelAbstract:ABSTRACT In recent decades, many states have considerably reduced their involvement in providing vital public services such as housing. This trend, manifested inter alia in the growing reliance on private initiatives, is redefining the state’s responsibility to delineate and protect the Land Rights of various individuals and groups. In this paper we propose a new typology of Land Rights, which relates not only to the conventional Rights but also to Rights derived from public and political arrangements that are usually taken into account in practice but are not yet in literature. Using the theoretical typology we developed, this study examines and compares the Land Rights trajectories of two adjacent neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The research findings conceptualize the role of the state in defining and protecting property Rights of urban residents under two scenarios: when Land is nationally owned and when it has become privately owned. Moreover, the findings demonstrate the influence of different types of Land Rights on the range of opportunities available to urban residents and emphasize the increased need for clearly defined property Rights in the neoliberal era, especially for disadvantaged populations.
Ephraim Nkonya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Land Rights in Sustainability
One Earth, 2019Co-Authors: Julie Gwendolin Zähringer, Colin M. Beale, Carsten Mayer, M. Graziano Ceddia, Peter Veit, Thomas Knoke, Quentin Grafton, Ruth Meinzen-dick, Ephraim NkonyaAbstract:Many sustainability challenges relate to Land use. Land Rights frequently underlie the managementand changes in Land use, often with a broad range of consequences. In this Voices piece, we inviteexperts to offer their perspectives on the importance of Land Rights in global sustainability andhuman well-being.
Harel Nachmany - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A tale of two neighborhoods: Toward a new typology of Land Rights
Land Use Policy, 2019Co-Authors: Harel Nachmany, Ravit HananelAbstract:ABSTRACT In recent decades, many states have considerably reduced their involvement in providing vital public services such as housing. This trend, manifested inter alia in the growing reliance on private initiatives, is redefining the state’s responsibility to delineate and protect the Land Rights of various individuals and groups. In this paper we propose a new typology of Land Rights, which relates not only to the conventional Rights but also to Rights derived from public and political arrangements that are usually taken into account in practice but are not yet in literature. Using the theoretical typology we developed, this study examines and compares the Land Rights trajectories of two adjacent neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The research findings conceptualize the role of the state in defining and protecting property Rights of urban residents under two scenarios: when Land is nationally owned and when it has become privately owned. Moreover, the findings demonstrate the influence of different types of Land Rights on the range of opportunities available to urban residents and emphasize the increased need for clearly defined property Rights in the neoliberal era, especially for disadvantaged populations.
Carmen Diana Deere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Female Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru
2004Co-Authors: Carmen Diana Deere, Rosa Luz Durán, Merrilee Mardon, Tom MastersonAbstract:This paper explores the determinants of female Land Rights and their impact on household income levels among owner-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a significant predictor of household income, not unsurprising given the ambiguities with which self-declared headship is associated. We hypothesize that female Land Rights, by increasing women's options, are a positive determinant of household income, but given the disadvantages that they face as farmers, that their Land Rights will more likely impact upon off-farm rather than farm income. Regression analysis indicates that female Land Rights are positively related to off-farm income in Peru and Paraguay, but significantly so only in the case of dual-headed households in Peru where the bargaining power thesis is operative. They are negatively associated with farm income in both countries and with farm revenue in Brazil.
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women s Land Rights and rural social movements in the brazilian agrarian reform
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2003Co-Authors: Carmen Diana DeereAbstract:This article examines the evolution of the demand for women's Land Rights in the Brazilian agrarian reform through the prism of the three main rural social movements: the Landless movement, the rural unions and the autonomous rural women's movement. Most of the credit for raising the issue of women's Land Rights rests with women within the rural unions. That women's formal Land Rights were attained in the constitutional reform of 1988 was largely a by–product of the effort to end discrimination against women in all it dimensions. The achievement of formal equality in Land Rights, nonetheless, did not lead to increases in the share of female beneficiaries of the reform, which remained low in the mid–1990s. This was largely because securing women's Land Rights in practice was not a top priority of any of the rural social movements. Moreover, the main social movement determining the pace of the agrarian reform, the Landless movement, considered class and gender issues to be incompatible. By the late 1990s, nonetheless, there was growing awareness that failure to recognize women's Land Rights was prejudicial to the development and consolidation of the agrarian reform settlements and thus the movement. The growing consensus among all the rural social movements of the importance of securing women's Land Rights, coupled with effective lobbying, encouraged the State in 2001 to adopt specific mechanisms for the inclusion of women in the agrarian reform.
Diego Ramirez-lovering - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Informal Land Rights and Infrastructure Retrofit: A Typology of Land Rights in Informal Settlements
Land, 2021Co-Authors: Mahsa Mesgar, Diego Ramirez-loveringAbstract:Informal settlements represent a challenging operational context for local government service providers due to precarious contextual conditions. Location choice and Land procurement for public infrastructure raise the complicated question: who has the right to occupy, control, and use a piece of Land in informal settlements? There is currently a dearth of intelligence on how to identify well-located Land for public infrastructure, spatially and with careful consideration for safeguarding the claimed Rights and preventing conflicts. Drawing on a case study of green infrastructure retrofit in seven informal settlements in Makassar, Indonesia, we classify the informal settlers’ Land Rights into four types: ownership, use, control, and management. This exploratory study uses a typological approach to investigate the spatial dimension of Land Rights in informal settlements. We introduce non-registrable Land interests and the partial, dynamic, and informal Land use Rights that impact the Land procurement for infrastructure retrofit. We also create a simple spatial matrix describing the control/power, responsibilities and Land interests of different stakeholders involved in the location decision making for public infrastructure. We argue that without sufficient understanding of non-formal Land Rights, Land procurement proposals for the public infrastructure upgrades can be frustrated by the individual or group claims on the Land, making the service provision impossible in informal settlements.
