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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Land Rights"”.
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Land Rights & Village Membership - A Comparative Study of Land Rights in Rural China
This study compares two disputes over land takings compensation in a single village in rural China. One dispute involves a married-out woman excluded from full compensation for a land taking in her natal village; this type of dispute is well addressed in the existing literature. The other dispute …
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Vindicating indigenous peoples' land rights in Kenya
… legal framework vindicates indigenous peoples’ land rights. The question of who is an indigenous person in Kenya is, of course, controversial. In order to avoid becoming enmeshed in this debate, this thesis adopts the approach of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which is …
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Compensation assessment practices in expropriation of customary land rights in Malawi
… various public infrastructure requires a lot of land that is normally expropriated from private and/or customary owners as government may not have it, in return for compensation to cover the expropriatory losses occasioned. Commonly, such compensation is assessed based on market value. While …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… why there has been persistent conflict over land in Africa, with reference to Kibaale district in western Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the colonial legacy which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting …
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A framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts
Land reform in South Africa is reported to be failing, and land tenure reform in customary contexts is the least well-addressed component of land reform. To address this failure, a framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts is developed. Using a research …
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Indigenous peoples and their rights : with special reference to their land rights and the right to self-determination in international law : a comparative study within the South African land rights context
The problem of land rights for indigenous peoples is one closely linked to the right of self-determination. A problem which poses a barrier to such right is the meaning of the adjective "indigenous". While it is commonly used to denote that the subject is simply native to a place, its usage in …
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Land rights and urban tenure: ownership and the eradication of poverty in South Africa
… South Africa. A prerequisite to formalisation is land acquisition. However, the skewed land ownership statistic in South Africa necessitates a slow and cumbersome restitution process often impeded by excessive compensatory claims by land owners and exacerbated by the interpretation of section 25 …
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Women s Land Rights Under Traditional Authorities in Namibia: A Case Study of Aawambo Women s Land Rights in the Omusati Region in Relation to the Communal Land Reform Act (Act No.05 of 2002)
… study examines the significance of the Communal Land Reform Act (Act No. 05 of 2002) and its impact on Aawambo women's land rights in Namibia's rural areas under the jurisdiction of traditional authorities. The study primarily argues that seemingly progressive legal frameworks such as the …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the project examines successive waves of mobilization within the Creole community for access to land under colonial and post-colonial regimes, demonstrating that Creole land politics have played out by relatively …
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The Political Process Model: A Case Study of the Alaskan Native Land Rights Movement, 1959-1971
The emergence and success of the Alaskan Native Land Rights Movement of the period between 1959 and 1971 is analyzed based on the political process model and other theories from the social movement theory perspective. Explanations outside of the political process model, including resource …
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Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
… scholarship on the relationship between property rights and economic growth. There is fairly broad consensus among policy makers and many academics that secure property rights have a wide range of benefits but significantly less agreement on what impedes secure property rights in developing …
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Renegotiating communal autonomy: communal land rights and liberal land reform on the Bolivian altiplano: Carangas, 1860-1930
… generated in the context of an anti-corporatist land reform in a rural region marked by a strong communal control over land. The presented case study is informed by a broader analytical framework that allows for a critical assessment of peripheral agency within a globalizing world. With this …
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Land rights & identity: the establishment of the Leliefontein Mission and its impact on the Little Namaqua of the Kamiesberg
… of the Kamiesberg region of Little Namaqualand in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In doing so it focuses on the indigenous occupants of the region, a group of Khoikhoi pastoralists known as the Little Namaqua. The Little Namaqua were few in number, but a people rich in cattle who …
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The Right to Say No: Customary Land Rights, Extractive Industries and the Need for Free, Prior and Informed Consent
… the more “traditional” Civil or socio-economic rights, which are regarded as being held by individuals; the notion that communities can also be holders of particular rights is still relatively new. And yet, the suffering inflicted on customary communities by states, corporations and even …
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Land and housing practices in Namibia: cases of access to land rights and production of housing in Windhoek, Oshakati and Gobabis
… and on-going and long-standing debates on land and housing. My analysis suggests that, while the way in which the practices take place varies greatly, they can be considered the sites of various kinds of innovation. I have also found that the 4 ways of the grassroots, while having …
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“This is the place that the women built”: A case study of the nexus of formalised land rights and housing recognition on spatial justice in Cape Town
… This research investigated how formalisation of land rights inhibits the capability of the urban poor in Cape Town to access urban opportunity. The main research question explored whether the formalisation of land rights affects alienation of the residents of Victoria Mxenge (VMX) settlement from …
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Assessement of the progress made to give women access to land and land rights in rural areas in South Africa since 1994: focusing on the Vhembe district municipality
… has been made when addressing women's access to land and land rights in the Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo since 1994. Which allows us to critically analyze what changes have taken place in rural areas for the marginalized since the transition into democracy. As a member of the Vhembe …
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Contemporary land use policy in Quito : towards a more equitable approach
… based in a more inclusive and equitable sense of rights and development. Among other changes, this included direct implications for land rights and land use considerations. This was, and continues to be, highly important as land rights questions have long been a central component in the platforms …
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