Research Catalog

Title

Land, environment, and climate change : challenges, responses, and tools / [principal authors, Stein Holden and Remy Sietchiping].

Author

Holden, Stein.

Publication

Nairobi : UN-HABITAT : Global Land Tool Network, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Sietchiping, Remy.
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
• Global Land Tool Network.

Description

80 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

This publication provides an overview of some the most important land-related environmental and climate change problems. Addressing the relationship between land tenure, land management approaches and the environment, it identifies clear linkages between land, environment and climate change, moving from a scientific framework to a country level implementation framework. The implications this has in urban and rural areas are presented, and illustrated with 20 brief cases. The publication identifies opportunities, gaps and priority research areas and critical land tools for action at local, sub-national, national, regional and global levels.--Publisher's description

Subject

• Land tenure > Developing countries
• Land use > Management
• Land use, Rural
• Land reform > Developing countries
• Climatic changes > Developing countries
• Environmental management
• Sustainable development
• environmental control
• sustainable development
• Climatic changes
• Environmental management
• Land reform
• Land tenure
• Land use > Management
• Land use, Rural
• Sustainable development
• land
• land tenure
• land allotment
• land utilization
• environment
• climate change
• low income
• urban area
• rural area
• terres
• régime foncier
• attribution de terres
• utilisation des terres
• environnement
• changement climatique
• faible revenu
• zone urbaine
• zone rurale
• tierras
• tenencia de la tierra
• reparto de tierras
• utilización de la tierra
• medio ambiente
• cambio climático
• bajos ingresos
• zona urbana
• zona rural
• Developing countries
• developing countries
• pays en développement
• países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

• UN pub.
• pub ONU.
• pub NU.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-77).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also freely available online.

Contents

Environmental challenges and possible solutions: Neo-Malthusian poverty-environment traps ; Tenure insecurity in relation to urban expansion ; Tenure insecurity of poor slum dwellers ; Tenure insecurity and investment impacts ; Threats against tenure systems in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas ; Land for the poor vs. land for bio-fuel and food production ; The need for tenure reforms in areas with customary tenure ; Protect steep slopes from non-sustainable agricultural practices ; Protect coastal zones and wetland areas ; Consolidate fragmented land holdings ; Sustainable management of rented land ; Tree-planting has many benefits ; Unequal land distribution, land degradation and inefficient land use ; Protect settlements in threatened coastal areas and islands ; Anticipate extreme weather events due to climate change ; Avoid environmental damage in "frontier" areas for new energy sources ; The risk and consequences of elite capture of land reforms -- Key priorities and promising land tools: Land tenure reforms ; Land rights records and registration ; Land use planning ; Regulation of land markets to achieve sustainable land use ; Land management, administration and information ; Slum rehabilitation and resettlement ; Land law, regulation and enforcement ; Payment for environmental services ; Payment of resource dividends ; Participatory public works programmes ; Collective action for enhancing environmental services ; Integrated rural and urban development ; Urban slum tenure security provision and rehabilitation ; Rescue plans for areas threatened by sea level rise and storm floods.

ISBN

• 9789211322514
• 9211322510

LCCN

2010305894

OCLC

• ocn931838433
• 931838433
• SCSB-1604548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library