A simple land property registration procedure cannot be taken for granted in Tanzania. Nevertheless, it is crucial for private investment and wealth accumulation in one of the poorest countries in the world. To improve the formal land registration procedures is currently one of the topmost items on the agenda of the Tanzania Government. To help speed up the technical implementation of an improv...

in the french law, the properties of public entities and at the head of them, the properties of state are divided into public domain of public entities and private domain of public entities. the criterion of distinguishing of public properties of public entities is a procedural matter that has been taken from french doctrine, however the recent law of public entities ownership passed in 2006 ha...

Ownership of land in the Western sense involves the establishment of boundaries that simultaneously contain, restrict and grant rights within a given space. Discourse on Indigenous concepts of ownership often point to the state of ‘belonging’, a deep connection with a given territory rather than a distinctly marked space that one occupies. In coastal Indigenous cultures territory will often ext...

This paper offers an ecologically-based view of land and land value, buildin,0 upon the muftiproducr nature of e&systems and upon landscape ecology. The paper qu&.ions the ability of markets to create optimal landscap&‘even when traditionhl methods of internalizing externalities are appli&d, ;and concludes that-&emptin g a tomplere valuation of’ ecosystem; is’ quixoric: Achieving sustainable la...