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_a333.316 _bLAN- |
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_aLand Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa / _cedited by Robert Home, |
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_aLondon : _bSpringer, _c2021. |
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300 | _a375p. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
520 | _aSub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It will attract readers from urban specialisms in law, geography and other social sciences, and from professionals and policy-makers concerned with land use planning, surveying and governance. Among the topics addressed by the book are challenges to governance institutions: how international development is delivered, building land management capacity, funding for urban infrastructure, land-based finance, ineffective planning regulation, and the role of alternatives to courts in resolving boundary and other land disputes. Issues of rights and land titling are explored from perspectives of human rights law (the right to development, and women's rights of access to land), and land tenure regularization. Particular challenges of housing, planning and informality are addressed through contributions on international real estate investment, community participation in urban settlement upgrading, housing delivery as a partly failing project to remedy apartheid's legacy, and complex interactions between political power, money and land. Infrastructure challenges are approached in studies of food security and food systems, urban resilience against natural and man-made disasters, and informal public transport. | ||
546 | _aEnglish. | ||
650 | _aRegional planning | ||
650 | _aSub-Saharan Africa | ||
650 | _aCity planning | ||
650 | _aSociology, Urban | ||
650 | _aUrban economics | ||
650 | _aMunicipal government | ||
650 | _aPolitical planning | ||
650 | _aPolitical science | ||
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_aHome, Robert _eeditor. |
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