Lack of Land Tenure Security as Challenges to Sustainable Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 348-362
Author(s):  
Debabrata Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Increase Productivity

Tenural security towards land has far-reaching and long lasting socio-economic implications. Secured tenural right over land found as influencing factor in utilising the land in more efficient way, do investment as well as precondition for environmentally sustainable natural resource use. Though there are numerous laws have been initiated in Bihar to ensure land right and equity in distribution, but their implementation to ensure land tenure security is a far cry. The lack of tenural right, theoretically, paves way for two problems towards sustainable development; in one hand it restrict the sharecropper to undertake a long term investment in the land to increase productivity, on the other hand this might have created the problem termed as ‘tragedy of commons'. The study made an assessment of the legal framework and argues for proper legal initiative and effective implementation to protect land tenure security for sustainable development.

Lack of Land Tenure Security as Challenges to Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 1417-1432
Author(s):  
Debabrata Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Increase Productivity

Tenural security towards land has far-reaching and long lasting socio-economic implications. Secured tenural right over land found as influencing factor in utilising the land in more efficient way, do investment as well as precondition for environmentally sustainable natural resource use. Though there are numerous laws have been initiated in Bihar to ensure land right and equity in distribution, but their implementation to ensure land tenure security is a far cry. The lack of tenural right, theoretically, paves way for two problems towards sustainable development; in one hand it restrict the sharecropper to undertake a long term investment in the land to increase productivity, on the other hand this might have created the problem termed as ‘tragedy of commons'. The study made an assessment of the legal framework and argues for proper legal initiative and effective implementation to protect land tenure security for sustainable development.

Development of Long Term Sustainability-Programmes for Ukrainian Mining Enterprises under Unstable Economic Conditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Temchenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
Sustainable Natural Resource Management ◽  
Strategic Factors

The article deals with developing long-term sustainability programmes as a means of ensuring the effective functioning of mining enterprises. The authors focus on specific problems of Ukrainian mining enterprises’ activity, substantiation of implementing environmentally sustainable natural resource management. The system of strategic factors for ensuring mining enterprises’ sustainable development under unstable economic conditions is formed.

Does slum formalisation without title provision stimulate housing improvement? A case of slum declaration in Pune, India

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1715-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Slum Upgrading ◽  
Housing Materials ◽  
Housing Investments

Though previous studies have examined how formalising land tenure affects housing improvements in informal settlements, the role of tenure security and its long-term influence remain unclear. In response, this paper quantitatively examines the extent to which formalising land tenure by way of slum declaration has stimulated housing improvements during the last three decades in the slums of Pune, India. Since slum declaration guarantees residents occupancy but not full property rights, this study focuses on how tenure security contributes to housing outcomes, such as materials, size, the number of floors and the amount of money spent for the improvements. Using original household survey data, analysis involving propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods reveals that slum declaration has tripled a household’s likelihood of having added a second floor and, albeit less clear, increased the average amount of money spent on housing improvements. At the same time, slum declaration has not induced any improvement in housing materials, largely since many residents of non-formalised slums have also replaced materials. These results indicate that slum declaration, even in the long run, has continued to influence housing investments in Pune’s slums, in terms of both type and amount spent, though residents of non-formalised slums have also come to enjoy certain de facto tenure security. Among other implications for policy, these findings underscore that governments should at least provide legal assurance of occupancy rights in informal settlements, even if active interventions such as slum upgrading and titling are currently difficult.

Law and innovation in the context of nanomaterials: Barriers to sustainable development? Results of an empirical study

elni Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Julian Schenten ◽  
Martin Führ
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Test Procedures ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Guiding Principle

According to Art. 3(3) of the Treaty on the European Union, the Community is working towards the sustainable development of Europe – this constitutes the overriding long-term goal of the European Union. The guiding principle of sustainable development aspires towards the reduced exploitation of natural resources aimed at their long-term preservation and a reduced pollutant burden for protected natural resources. The target for 2020 is that "chemicals are used and produced in ways that lead to the minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment" (’Johannesburg goals’). In addition, the guiding principle pursues the safeguarding of the basis for survival and economic production in order to maintain an adequate quality of life. These aims can only be achieved by far-reaching changes to the economic and social structures and also to patterns of consumption and production – consequently innovations are required. This requires specific regulatory strategies – particularly for product or process innovations – in order to create adequate incentives so that actors from trade and industry get innovations for sustainability off the ground. In connection with this the question arises as to how nanomaterials are to be regulated so that the innovation processes linked to these substances are aligned with the guiding principle of sustainable development. Nanomaterials are substances in terms of the REACH Regulation and therefore fall within its scope. However, REACH does not contain any provisions directed specifically at nanomaterials. The regulatory omissions arising from this – no definition for nanomaterials; tonnage quantity thresholds may be inappropriate for nanoscale substances; transitional periods for existing substances (phase-in substances, Art. 23) also apply to certain nanomaterials; test procedures are not designed to nanomaterial specifications, etc. – are discussed in depth in the literature. This article takes a different perspective. It examines to what degree REACH promotes innovations for sustainability through nanomaterials. The question of how the regulation affects the manufacturers' approach to nanomaterials was the subject of a survey sent to companies which manufacture and/or use nanomaterials. The survey questioned 37 companies based in Germany. Besides the issues of registering for REACH and carrying out safety assessments, the main focus of interest was on the relationships between substance risks and innovation and between REACH and innovation. The findings obtained from the survey were augmented by telephone interviews on this subject and by the results of a workshop held in Darmstadt, Germany, in December 2011 with representatives from companies and industry associations and experts on the regulation of nanomaterials. Finally, this contribution refers to the results of a study carried out for the European Commission on the innovative effects of REACH on emerging technologies. This document summarises the most important results from the empirical data and, where the data permits, draws some preliminary conclusions for a possible adaptation of the legal framework for nanomaterials.

scholarly journals Can Environmentally Sustainable Development and Green Innovation of Hotels Trigger the Formation of a Positive Brand and Price Premium?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3275
Author(s):  
Jongsik Yu ◽  
Junghyun Park ◽  
Kyeongheum Lee ◽  
Heesup Han
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Moderating Role

This study develops a theoretical framework to describe brand images and customer behaviors in relation to the eco-friendly activities of hotels. These eco-friendly activities were divided into environmentally sustainable development and green innovation. In this study, a survey was conducted on customers who had used a hotel in the past year, and a total of 329 valid samples were obtained. The empirical analysis was conducted using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. The empirical analysis results showed that hotels’ eco-friendly activities formed a positive brand image, which in turn had a positive effect on brand love and respect. It was also found that environmental concern, as perceived by customers, did not play a significant moderating role. Therefore, out of a total of eight hypotheses presented in this study, six hypotheses were supported, and two hypotheses were rejected. The findings of this study confirm that hotels’ eco-friendly activities have a positive influence on their performance and provide meaningful insights, based on which strategies for the long-term development and growth of hotels can be established.

scholarly journals Using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework to Assess Youth Land Rights in Rural Liberia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Louis ◽  
Tizai Mauto ◽  
My-Lan Dodd ◽  
Tasha Heidenrich ◽  
Peter Dolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Gender Lens

This article summarizes the evidence on youth land rights in Liberia from a literature review combined with primary research from two separate studies: (1) A qualitative assessment conducted as formative research to inform the design of the Land Rights and Sustainable Development (LRSD) project for Landesa and its partners’ community level interventions; and (2) a quantitative baseline survey of program beneficiaries as part of an evaluation of the LRSD project. The findings are presented using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework that examines youth land rights through a gender lens. The evidence highlights that female and male youth in Liberia face significant but different barriers to long-term access to land, as well as to participation in decisions related to land. Our suggested recommendations offer insights for the implementation of Liberia’s recently passed Land Rights Act as well as for community-level interventions focused on increasing youth land tenure security in Liberia.

scholarly journals Palaeoenvironmental perspectives for sustainable development in East Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Marchant ◽  
J. Finch ◽  
R. Kinyanjui ◽  
V. Muiruri ◽  
C. Mumbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
East African

Abstract. East African ecosystems are shaped by long-term interaction with changing climate, human population, fire and wildlife. There remains today a strong connection between people and ecosystems, a relationship that is being strained by the rapidly developing and growing East African population, and their associated resource needs. Predicted climatic and atmospheric change will further impact on ecosystems culminating in a host of challenges for their management and sustainable development, further compounded by a backdrop of political, land tenure and economic constraints. Given the many direct and indirect benefits that ecosystems provide to surrounding human populations, understanding how they have changed over time and space deserves a special place on the ecosystem management agenda. Such a perspective can only be derived from a palaeoecology, particularly where there is high resolution, both through time and across space. The East African palaeoecological archive is reviewed, in particular to assess how it can meet this need. Although there remain crucial gaps, the number of palaeoecological archives from East Africa growing rapidly, some employing new and novel techniques to trace past ecosystem response to climate change. When compared to the archaeological record it is possible to disentangle human from climate change impacts, and how the former interacts with major environmental changes such as increased use of fire, changing herbivore densities and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. With this multi-dimensional perspective of environmental change impacts it is imperative that our understanding of past human-ecosystem interactions are considered to impart effective long term management strategies; such an approach will enhance possibilities for a sustainable future for East African ecosystems and maximise the livelihoods of the populations that rely on them.

A comparative history, from the 16th to 20th centuries, of irrigation water management in Spain, Mexico, Chile, Mendoza (Argentina) and Peru

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 779-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacinta Palerm-Viqueira
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
System Size ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Irrigation Water Management ◽  
Scalar Stress ◽  
Irrigation System Management

This paper explores the long-term development of irrigation system management, and looks at the influence of legislation, irrigation system size, scalar stress and polarized land tenure in the existence and success of self-management. The case studies are drawn from regions of the former Spanish Empire. Hispanic America, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, as part of the Spanish Empire, had a common legal framework; however, in the 19th and early 20th centuries (after the break up of the Spanish Empire), new and diverse country-based legislation developed and, in some cases, this new legislation favoured self-management.

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