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Centrality of land and real estate dynamics in China through the prism of the Developmental State Centralité du foncier et dynamiques immobilières en Chine au prisme de l’Etat Développeur

Reports & Research
December, 2018
China

This paper engages in a discussion between regulationists and urban scientists with the aim of bringing awareness ofthe growing role of property markets as drivers of contemporaneous capitalist regimes — a dimension that has notbeen given proper consideration by the French Regulation School. The case of China exemplifies the centrality of landin macroeconomic dynamics. The paper explores this centrality trough the prism of the Development State (DS), aframework that sets China's experience in the broader context of Northeast Asia.

Continuous separation of land use and climate effects on the past and future water balance

Reports & Research
October, 2017
United States of America

Understanding the combined and separate effects of climate and land use change on the water cycle is necessary to mitigate negative impacts. However, existing methodologies typically divide data into discrete (before and after) periods, implicitly representing climate and land use as step changes when in reality these changes are often gradual. Here, we introduce a new regression-based methodological framework designed to separate climate and land use effects on any hydrological flux of interest continuously through time, and estimate uncertainty in the contribution of these two drivers.

STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF LAND-USE, URBANIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE INTENSITY IN MOUNTAINS: EVIDENCES FROM JAMMU & KASHMIR-INDIA

Reports & Research
December, 2014
India
British Indian Ocean Territory
Pakistan

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.

Population Trends and Urbanisation in Mountain Ranges of the World

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
United States of America
Global

This study assesses the global mountain population, population change over the 1975–2015 time-range, and urbanisation for 2015. The work uses the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) definition of mountain areas combined with that of mountain range outlines generated by the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA). We estimated population change from the Global Human Settlement Layer Population spatial grids, a set of population density layers used to measure human presence and urbanisation on planet Earth.

Research on the Distribution and Scale Evolution of Suzhou Gardens under the Urbanization Process from the Tang to the Qing Dynasty

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia
China
Russia
United States of America
Vietnam

Suzhou city was the cultural centre of ancient south China. It continues the urban pattern of more than 800 years ago. Suzhou gardens are the essence of Chinese gardening art, as well as the valuable world cultural heritage site. This paper compared the evolution in the distribution and scale of Suzhou gardens among five historical periods, and discussed the influence of urbanization on gardening.

Plan Nacional de Suelo Urbano

Legislation & Policies
November, 2020
Argentina

El presente Manual de Ejecución tiene por objetivo reglamentar los contenidos del Programa Nacional de Producción de Suelo, creado por Disposición Nº 1/2020 (DI-2020- 1-APN-SSPSYU#MDTYH), de fecha 18 de junio de 2020, de la Subsecretaría de Política de Suelo y Urbanismo del Ministerio de Desarrollo Territorial y Hábitat de la Nación. El Plan Nacional de Suelo Urbano (PNASU) constituye una política explícita para atender integralmente todas las instancias de carácter institucional que permitan mejorar las condiciones objetivas de acceso al suelo asequible y de buena calidad, y que garantice

Securing Tenure in African Cities: Learnings from five small-scale incremental innovations led by local NGOs and social entrepreneurs

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Kenya
Tanzania
Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Africa
Côte d'Ivoire

Achieving tenure security, land and property rights in informal urban settlements remains one of the most persistent, intractable development challenges today. The Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation initiative launched by Cities Alliance aimed to address this challenge.

Uneven development, politics and governance in urban Africa

Reports & Research
October, 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of existing literatures relevant to the politics and political economy of African urban development. It considers the economic and demographic drivers of urbanisation in Africa and their consequences for urban restructuring and uneven development, before turning to the forms of urban politics that have emerged alongside, responded to and also helped shape these urban economic developments.

Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Senegal

Reports & Research
April, 2017
Senegal

Senegal currently has a complex and poorly regulated system of land governance, which — combined with an urbanisation trend and increasing outsider interest — is leading to land privatisation and a consequent reduction in the availability of cultivable land for small producers. Young farmers in particular are struggling to gain sufficient access to land to maintain viable enterprises.