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Land Governance and Gender

The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2021
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, Mexico, China, Germany
Land & Gender
land administration
land policies
land management
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.
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Droits sur le carbone

Reports & Research
June, 2021
Africa, Ethiopia, Congo, Americas, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Asia, Philippines, Vietnam
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
food security
community forestry
land tenure
community land rights
tenure security
L’étude a analysé dans 31 pays l’état de la reconnaissance juridique des droits des peuples autochtones, des communautés locales et des populations afro-descendantes sur le carbone présent sur leurs terres et territoires. Ensemble, ces pays détiennent près de 70 % des forêts tropicales du globe, et cinq d’entre eux disposent des plus grandes surfaces de forêt tropicale : le Brésil, la RDC, l’Indonésie, le Pérou et la Colombie.
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On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.
- Also in
- Español
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EN IGUALDAD DE CONDICIONES. Prácticas prometedoras para la materialización de los derechos de las mujeres a las tierras de posesión colectiva

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva. Lamentablemente, las mujeres de todo el mundo tienen menos tierra en propiedad y derechos más débiles que los hombres, pero esto puede cambiar, y este informe muestra cómo hacerlo.
- Also in
- English
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Identification of Property Boundaries Using an IFC-Based Cadastral Database

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta, Malaysia, Panama, Romania, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
boundaries
property
Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of the ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides the potential capabilities for modelling property boundaries in a 3D environment. In some jurisdictions, such as Victoria, Australia, some property boundaries are assigned to the faces of building elements which are modelled as solids in IFC. In order to retrieve these property boundaries, boundary identification analysis should be performed, and faces of building elements should be extracted.
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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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Emerging lessons for mainstreaming Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Strategic entry points and processes

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land & Investments
land-use planning
private sector
A new report developed by GIZ highlights success factors and 7 practical entry points for mainstreaming Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) into policies and planning, based on 16 case studies from Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Philippines and Viet Nam in the following contexts:
1. National climate change policies (NDC, NAP)
2. National public investment allocation and project screening
3. Sectoral adaptation plans (water resources, protected areas, disaster risk reduction)
4. Land-use planning (spatial planning & landscape management)
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Nature-Based Solutions for agricultural water management and food security

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Southern Africa, South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, United States of America, Japan, Philippines, Iran, Nepal
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land management
desertification
land degradation
agriculture
water management
Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.
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Seizing the Urban Opportunity. How national governments can recover from COVID-19, secure shared prosperity, and tackle the climate crisis through cities.

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2021
Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, Mexico, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land policies
land use
urban areas
urbanization
Today, the Coalition for Urban Transitions releases a new report ‘Seizing the Urban Opportunity’, which provides insights from six emerging economies on how national governments can recover from COVID-19, tackle the climate crisis and secure shared prosperity through cities. Launching as a call to action for national governments ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, it builds on the Coalition’s flagship 2019 report: Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity.
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Multi-Temporal Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation Greenness in Urban Green Spaces of Puebla, Mexico

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
British Indian Ocean Territory, Mexico, United States of America
Urban Tenure
urbanization
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a global problem that is likely to grow as a result of urban population expansion. Multiple studies conclude that green spaces and waterbodies can reduce urban heat islands. However, previous studies often treat urban green spaces (UGSs) as static or limit the number of green spaces investigated within a city. Cognizant of these shortcomings, Landsat derived vegetation and land surface temperature (LST) metrics for 80 urban green spaces in Puebla, Mexico, over a 34-year (1986–2019) and a 20-year (2000–2019) period were studied.