This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of organization, protection and management of protected areas of regional and local significance.

La presente Ley tiene por objeto la protección del suelo de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, previniendo la alteración de sus características químicas derivada de acciones de origen antrópico.

This Law aims at ensuring the sustainable development of the territory through the rational use of land and natural resources; assessing the actual and future potential of the territory development on a local and national level by balancing natural resources with economic demand and public and private interests.

This Regional Law establishes the composition of land-use planning documentation that must contain mapping of the territory, copy of decision of land expropriation (including bail out), land reservation for public and municipal needs, mapping of the boundaries of land servitude, and project documentation containing graphic maps.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 1220-ZZK amending Regional Law No. 113-ZZK “On land-use planning”. (2015-07-21)

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of elaboration and submittal of land-use planning documentation by the competent bodies of local self-government. Decision-making related to land-use planning projects shall be made (or rejected) by the competent body within ten days from the date of submittal of land-use planning documentation.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 766-OZ amending Regional Law No. 290-OZ “On land-use planning documentation”. (2015-07-22)

The purpose of the present Act is the economic and expedient use of the soil; the protection and care of the environment and, in particular the conservation or reinstatement of the sustainable purity of the air, water and soil, as well as the avoidance of noise; the conservation or reinstatement of a healthy nature, the protection of the indigenous fauna and flora and their natural living spaces, of the cultural heritage and, finally, in particular that of housing and recreational areas.

Source: IIED

La récente vague de transactions foncières à grande échelle née des investissements agro-industriels a mis en lumière une demande généralisée en faveur d’une redevabilité accrue en matière de gouvernance des terres et des investissements. Les cadres légaux influencent les possibilités de reddition de comptes et le recours à la loi a figuré dans les réponses des communautés locales aux transactions foncières.

In the context of transition to a more open form of government, the Myanmar government has begun to liberalize land markets and, in 2012, enacted two major land-related laws. Implementing these new land laws has proven challenging, however, as it has been difficult to integrate these laws with the existing customary practices of various ethnic minorities. To address these and other issues UN-HABITAT Myanmar is assisting the Myanmar government in developing a Land Administration and Management Program (LAMP).

ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: This report shows how, contrary to Cambodia’s obligations under international human rights law, those affected by evictions have had no opportunity for genuine participation and consultation beforehand. Information on planned evictions and on resettlement packages has often been incomplete and inaccurate, undermining the right to information of those affected.

This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian government had already attempted to implement mass titling a decade previously, but had lacked the human and technical resources to complete it. The case describes a consensus between donors and a host nation government during the planning and approval of the intervention, which dissolves into conflict during implementation.

This report provides an overview of state and regional governments’ roles in natural resource governance, highlighting the mining, oil and gas, timber, and hydropower sectors. This report is the fourth volume in the Subnational Governance in Myanmar Discussion Paper Series, which aims to inform future analysis of the potential risks and benefits of changes to the role of subnational governments. This report is funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID).

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: An exclusive new analysis reveals that the Government of Myanmar has allocated at least 5.2 million acres and plans to allocate another 11 million acres of Southeast Asia’s last remaining biodiversity-rich high-value forests to make way for large-scale, private agribusiness projects that often never materialize. Many of these forest areas overlap with historical land claims made by Myanmar’s ethnic minority groups who will now permanently lose their land, further enflaming decades-old armed conflicts with the national government.