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Land Governance and Gender : The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy, Hardback Book

Land Governance and Gender : The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy Hardback

Edited by Dr Uchendu Eugene (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia) Chigbu

Hardback

Description

This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns.

It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences.

Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land.

Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.

It deals with land issues within the interface of theory and practice.

Part 3 covers Applications and experiences: techniques, strategies, tools, methods, and case studies.

Part 4 focuses on Land governance, gender, and tenure innovations.

Case studies discussed include China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Korea, etc.

Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries.

This book: · Includes theoretical or empirical studies on land governance and gender from a diverse group of countries. · Provides the basis for a new land administration theory to be set against conventional land administration approaches. · Offers, in an accessible manner, a range of new tools for design and evaluation of land management interventions.

The book will be valuable for students and researchers in land governance, urban and rural planning, international development,natural resource management, agriculture, community development, and gender studies.

It is also useful for land practitioners, including those working within international organizations.

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