Download or read book Spontaneous Settlement Formation in Rural Regions Case studies Planning for settlement in rural regions the case of spontaneous settlements in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spontaneous Settlement Formation in Rural Regions written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1986 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spontaneous Settlement Formation in Rural Regions Case studies written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Characteristics and Performance of Settlement Programs written by B. H. Kinsey and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on Regional subnational Development Plans Programmes and Projects in Developing Countries with Special Emphasis on Settlement Issues 1980 1990 written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spontaneous Settlement Formation in Rural Regions Conceptual framework and guidelines for action written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Agricultural Land Reform in South Africa written by Johan Van Zyl and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiercely contested issue of land reform is crucial to the success of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. In this broad-ranging yet rigorous study, leading researchers provide the theoretical framework and a major South African land reform initiative. The book places the issue of land at the center of the debate about the RDP; provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research findings, policies, and proposals; gives a clear understanding of the arguments around land reform, and of the principles underlying a market-assisted redistribution process; and analyzes international experience, and the South African policy and legal environment, in order to evaluate land reform options and make far-reaching proposals. Scholarly and topical, Agricultural Land Reform in South Africa is an indispensable resource for academics, students, development economists, practitioners and policy makers, and will be valuable in the development of agricultural land reform programs both local and international.

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Download or read book West African Studies Africa s Urbanisation Dynamics 2020 Africapolis Mapping a New Urban Geography written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts.

Download or read book The Role of Unplanned Human Settlements in Land Cover Change written by Grace Wanjiku Muriuki and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations in this thesis advance our understanding on the role of unplanned human settlements in land cover change. Despite its complexity, the fundamental causes of land cover change are well known, and comprise biophysical, economic, policy/institutional and demographic factors. Of these, population growth and migration are implicated as the most significant. In future almost all land cover change will occur in rural areas which are experiencing rapid increases in population and migration, already a critical concern for conservation programs worldwide. Squatters are immigrants who illegally establish residence in areas deemed unsettled or with poorly-defined tenure. Their land use decisions tend to be risk-minimization strategies, influenced by their socio-economic characteristics and lack of long-term stakes in the land they occupy. This reduces their motivation to invest in and conserve resources, and they often become exceptional land degraders. In order to reduce their impact on landscapes and minimise the conflicts associated with their settlements, there is need for targeted research on their role in land cover change. I contribute knowledge to this problem using the Chyulu Hills as a case study. First, I reviewed current knowledge on migration and land cover change and the influential structural constructs that guide research in this ... [more]field. Based on this review, I evaluated the dynamics of squatter migration to the Chyulu Hills, and the history of conflicts of squatters with the protected areas. Combining community surveys with statistical analysis, I revealed the proximate and underlying causes of the migration. I found that squatter movements to Chyulu Hills were widespread and long term, and that squatters are drawn from all over Kenya. Household socioeconomic and policy-related factors such as provision of schools, land tenure security and issuance of free land had a strong influence on squatter migration. Land and settlement policies were also implicated in migration and squatting. Most significantly, I established a high prevalence of secondary migration, where squatters migrated repeatedly to maximise their livelihood opportunities. The responsiveness of squatters to policy stimuli highlighted its potential to regulate or influence squatter mobility in rural landscapes. Next, I combined remote sensing/GIS tools, community surveys and landscape metrics to evaluate the rates and patterns of land cover change in the Chyulu Hills between 1967 and 1999, a period of high squatter migration. I found rapid changes in land cover over the 32 years of squatter settlements. The total proportion of native vegetation (dense forests, open forests and shrublands) decreased from 91% to 36%. In the same period, dense forests declined by 8.7% while cultivation expanded by approximately 40%. I explained these changes in the context of policy and management of land and the protected areas of Tsavo and Chyulu Hills. Squatter problems were related to land alienation during the British colonization of Kenya. I found preferential patterns of village establishment in or near dense forests. Landscape fragmentation confirmed the spontaneous nature of squatter settlements, and it is not clear yet how these transformations might affect the wildlife that uses it as a dispersal area. The community knowledge of the patterns and processes of land cover change, assessed using an adapted semi-quantitative tool known as proportional piling, agreed well with quantitative GIS measures of land cover change. Following this, I tested alternative postulates of the role of biophysical, household socioeconomic, access and institutional factors in the variation in remnant vegetation in villages in Chyulu Hills. Using Generalised Linear Models, model averaging and hierarchical partitioning analyses, I selected the best set of models within a 95% confidence interval, and ranked the relative importance of the explanatory factors in the variation in remnant vegetation. I found that squatter presence and their associated characteristics of short stays in villages, larger households and younger household heads were the most significant factors in remnant vegetation variations. This was supported by results of hierarchical partitioning. I then analyzed the policy on management of squatters and protected areas. For the most part, squatter management is ad hoc and reactionary, biased towards urban squatters, and largely limited to site and services improvements. I argued that this arose from a multiplicity of governance institutions and policies for natural resource management with overlapping mandates, rigid conservation management paradigms, and lack of provisions for participatory engagement of all stakeholders. I proposed the promotion of enabling policy environments that embrace participatory opportunities supported by building squatter human and social capital. Long-term land use planning should consider alternative livelihood sources that are less dependent on land as viable opportunities for reducing landscape changes and conflicts associated with squatters in rural areas. I recommend further research that integrates a broader spectrum of exogenous and contextual factors such as national policies, droughts and pandemics such as HIV/AIDS that influence household socioeconomics in rural land cover change. I also propose predictive studies that build potential future scenarios and that utilise finer temporal and spatial resolutions.