Land Issues For Urban Governance In Sub Saharan Africa
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Land Issues For Urban Governance In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Robert Home
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-11
Land Issues For Urban Governance In Sub Saharan Africa written by Robert Home and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-11 with Political Science categories.
Sub-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.
Perspective On Urban Land And Urban Management Policies In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Akin L. Mabogunje
language : en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank
Release Date : 1992
Perspective On Urban Land And Urban Management Policies In Sub Saharan Africa written by Akin L. Mabogunje and has been published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper addresses the problems of governance in municipalities in Africa. The concern has been to adapt traditional systems of governance to the needs of modern urban management. This paper investigates the need for a new analysis of the twin problems of urban land and urban management in sub-Saharan Africa. This need is based on the apparent paradox between the dynamic, city-creating activities of civil societies in all of these countries, and the weak capabilities of states to guide and direct these activities. This paper focuses on governance at the community level, where empowerment and accountability begin. It argues that a prerequisite for dealing with these problems is an institutional environment with which the target populace is familiar and to which it is likely to relate in participating in managing the city. The importance of the particularly dynamic systems of traditional governance at the lowest level in managing urban growth is only recently being recognized.
Securing Africa S Land For Shared Prosperity
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Author : Frank F. K. Byamugisha
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2013-06-05
Securing Africa S Land For Shared Prosperity written by Frank F. K. Byamugisha and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-05 with Political Science categories.
Despite being heavily endowed with land and other natural resources, Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest poverty rate in the world. A key to leveraging its land and natural resources to eradicate poverty is improving land governance, the subject of this book, centered on a ten point program to scale up land policy reforms and investments.
The Management Of Secondary Cities In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
language : en
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Release Date : 1991
The Management Of Secondary Cities In Sub Saharan Africa written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and has been published by UN-HABITAT this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
Urban Land Markets Housing Development And Spatial Planning In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Lwasa Shuaib
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Urban Land Markets Housing Development And Spatial Planning In Sub Saharan Africa written by Lwasa Shuaib and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cities and towns categories.
Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges in recent decades, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanised poverty. Because of a rapidly urbanising sub-Saharan Africa coupled with failures in urban management, urban economies have grown slower than correspondent population increase, slum growth has increased and poverty has urbanised. Of all urban challenges, housing has posed serious challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the prime basis of urban housing is land. Land management is key to urban development due to its influences on the social, economic development and urban environmental management. Land and housing are important sectors as urbanisation and urban development accelerate. This book examines the relationship between operations of informal land markets and housing development for planning policies that are responsive to the land market conditions.
Urban Planning Housing And Spatial Structures In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Ambe J. Njoh
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Urban Planning Housing And Spatial Structures In Sub Saharan Africa written by Ambe J. Njoh and has been published by Ashgate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Political Science categories.
Breaking with tradition, this volume identifies the causes of underdevelopment in sub–Saharan Africa by linking historical experience of colonial development policies with their current development problems. This book analyzes the impact of urban and regional planning schemes with (European) colonial roots, for contemporary socio-economic development efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.
Evaluation Of Innovative Land Tools In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : P. van Asperen
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2014-09-17
Evaluation Of Innovative Land Tools In Sub Saharan Africa written by P. van Asperen and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with Architecture categories.
Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction. This study evaluates such tools in three peri-urban areas in Lusaka (Zambia), Oshakati (Namibia) and Gaborone (Botswana), with a focus on the perspective of the land holders. The author concludes that the tools are to some extent pro-poor, and makes recommendations for further improvements. These innovative land tools are also considered a necessary addition to conventional and administration tools. This study makes valuable reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners within the land administration domain and related disciplines.
The State Of African Cities 2010
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Release Date : 2010
The State Of African Cities 2010 written by and has been published by UN-HABITAT this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers critical urban issues and challenges in African cities, using social and urban geography as the overall entry points. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, the report sheds more light on inequity in African cities, and in this respect follows the main theme of the global State of the World's Cities 2010 report. Through a regional analysis, the report delves deeper into the main urban challenges facing African cities, while provoking dialogue and discussion on the role of African cities in improving national, regional and local economies through sustainable and equitable development. The report has been drafted in cooperation with Urban Land Mark. Through an analytical survey of several African cities, the report examines urban growth, social conditions in slums, environmental and energy issues and, especially, the role of urban land markets in accessing land and housing.
Urban Food Systems Governance And Poverty In African Cities
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Author : Jane Battersby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-22
Urban Food Systems Governance And Poverty In African Cities written by Jane Battersby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-22 with Social Science categories.
As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Trading Places
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Author : Mark Napier
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2013-10-16
Trading Places written by Mark Napier and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban land markets, not only for ethical reasons, but because it makes economic sense for growing cities and towns. If we are to have any chance of understanding and intervening in predominantly poor and very unequal African cities, we need to see land and markets differently. New migrants to the city and communities living in slums are as much a part of the real estate market as anyone else; they're just not registered or officially recognised. Trading Places highlights the land practices of those living on the city's margins, and explores the nature and character of their participation in the urban land market. It details how the urban poor access, hold and trade land in the city, and how local practices shape the city, and reconfigures how we understand land markets in rapidly urbanising contexts. Rather than developing new policies which aim to supply land and housing formally but with little effect on the scale of the need, it advocates an alternative approach which recognises the local practices that already exist in land access and management. In this way, the agency of the poor is strengthened, and households and communities are better able to integrate into urban economies.