Abstract Government is the custodian of most critical (and limited) factor production , namely, land. Assuring security tenure, arbitrating disputes, and facilitating transfer or sales titles renders land market more efficient less volatile, attracting investors promoting sustainable urban development. Land tenure also a government service that has repercussions on agricultural productivity, ho...

This paper describes the results of an empirical investigation of the variation in reforestation among different types of forest tenure in British Columbia. Indicators of management, based on available statistical information about not satisfactorily restocked (NSR) lands and artificial reforestation on cutover lands, are compared across four major forms of tenure, ranging from relatively secur...

Formal land tenure systems protect the property rights of landholders and provide new paths for economic development. Crofting is a traditional form of land use in Scotland’s Highlands and Islands with characteristics that prevent crofters from taking advantage of an individualized tenure system. As a result this condition has contributed to slow economic growth or even the appearance of povert...

This article focuses on the relationship between in-migration from Northern Ghana and changing land tenure norms in Ghana's central "transition zone" in Brong Ahafo Region. Using the complex adaptive systems (CAS) theoretical framework, it theorizes this relationship as part of a wider set of "co-evolving" social and environmental conditions across Brong Ahafo. It presents new qualitative resea...

Many of the countries of the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand) have a British colonial legacy. This history has had wide implications for the development of the region: economically, politically and socially. The cadastral (property based) systems in theses countries have been influenced by British land conveyance and registration practices, and by colonial history. To date, ...

Malawi has exceptionally high rates of population growth (3.1%) and deforestation (2.4%), suggesting a Malthusian link between the two. The most important proximal cause of forest loss in Malawi has been the expansion of agricultural land. Population growth has been an important driver for this process, but is an insufficient explanation by itself. In Malawi’s case, it has been coupled with a l...

The purpose of this chapter is to describe preliminary results in the attempt to model the linkages between property rights, risk, and livestock development in Niger. Rainfall variation is often identified as the major environmental risk faced by agropastoralists (for example, Swallow 1994). Among the many riskmanagement strategies that are identified, livestock mobility is seen as one of the m...

Abstract Subject and purpose of work: Security tenure is observed as an underlying tool for measuring the development among communities developing countries. Despite this, issues related to peoples’ thinking or feelings well what drives security land are poorly understood inconclusive. This study examines residents’ perception in rural Nigeria. Materials methods: A multistage sampling procedure...