This publication is a practical guide to the Youth and Land Responsiveness Criteria, which is a tool that can be used to increase the incorporation of youth perspectives into land matters at both institutional and programme levels, through a participatory process.

This publication provides an overview of the findings of a review of land tenure security in Asia and the Pacific region in collaboration with key partners. It highlights the major land challenges, barriers and opportunities as the basis for future decisions about partnerships and engagement in the land sector at sub-regional and country level. The findings are based on an extensive literature review, interviews, a questionnaire, validation at several multi-stakeholder meetings and peer review.

Este trabajo estudia la expansión urbana y las transformaciones socio-territoriales en el municipio de Calimaya durante el periodo 1990-2010 en el marco del proceso de expansión urbana de la Zona Metropolitana de Toluca, a través de un análisis retrospectivo lineal de las variables demográficas, vivienda y económicas, mediante el uso de técnicas de investigación documental y estadística de las dependencias estatales y locales de Desarrollo Urbano e INEGI, a fin de mostrar que las transformaciones no son exclusivas de las grandes aglomeraciones, ya que en pequeñas comunidades urbanas, como e

China’s traditional urban land system is established in highly centralized planned economy. This system negates functions of value law and economic law fundamentally, so it is not favorable for establishment of market mechanism and development of market economy. This study took Marx’s ground rent theory as guidance, combined existing problems of China’s land use system, and made analysis on innovation of China’s urban land system from property right system, land market and land price.

This study investigates dynamics of land-use shifts, agricultural land-use, and its intensity in relation with urbanization and other factors in Jammu & Kashmir, a mountainous state of India. Results revealed an unfavourable increasing trend in the undesirable ecology class (barren) and declining trend in desirable land-use (forests, pastures and miscellaneous trees) which are likely to have serious long-term ecological implications. Inter-sectoral budgeting analysis revealed that shifts in land are occurring from desirable towards undesirable ecological sector.