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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 1988
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Precisa diversas definiciones de pobreza en funcion de conceptos tales como marginalidad, necesidades basicas y estabilidad democratica, con el fin de profundizar el analisis de la problematica metropolitana para estudiar la relacion que se puede establecer entre calidad de vida y planificacion del desarrollo urbano.

  2. Library Resource

    Proyecto sobre Estrategia de Desarrollo Agrorrural con Participación Campesina

    Journal Articles & Books
    Reports & Research
    December, 1988
    Brazil

    Revisa las distintas formas por las cuales los trabajadores y los pequeños productores rurales suelen tener acceso a la tierra en el Brasil y los factores que las acompañan, y evalúa la evolución reciente y las perspectivas que tienen los campesinos.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1988
    Kenya

    The Kenya Government has over a number of years pursued policies geared towards the promotion of secondary towns. Included in this strategy is the achievement of an orderly and coordinated urban land development. However, experience from these towns indicates that, planned land development has encountered a lot of bottlenecks particularly in relation to the institution of private ownership of land. This paper traces the land tenure systems that have existed in the Kenya’s secondary towns.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1988
    Kenya

    This article discusses the nexus between urban planning and the law in theory, and the role that law plays in the urban planning process in Kenya. The theoretical discussion focuses on the use of law as a regulatory mechanism and concludes that no universal theory of the role of law in the urban planning process can be identified. The discussion on law and urban planning in Kenya, on the other hand, is an attempt to apply theory to the Kenyan situation. In Kenya today, there exists a private and a public legal regime for the regulation of land use in urban areas.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    April, 1988
    Africa

    The scale and persistence of the food crisis in Africa during the last

    20 years is of the gravest concern to African governments as well as to the international community. Food production is not able to keep pace with population growth and many countries in the continent have become increasingly dependent on imports of food stuffs originating from international aid.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    April, 1988
    Switzerland

    The present Act lays down provisions relating to land use planning in the Canton of Nidwald. In particular, it ensures an economical use of soil, regulated settlements with a view to conserve natural living space, the cultural heritage of the Canton, a sustainable development and coordination of competences. It aims also at the unification of the construction law.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 1989
    Zambia

    This Act makes provision principally for the legal status and administration of estates of deceased persons leaving property in Zambia.This contains rules relative to the making, registering and execution of wills, provides for the administration of property included in a testament and provides for court proceedings regarding testate estates. Wills may be placed in custody with the High Court. The Act sets out procedures of administration and prohibits any interfering with property of deceased by any person who is not authorized to do so.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    May, 1988
    Switzerland

    The present Law lays down provisions relating to land use planning and construction activities. In particular, the purpose of the Law is to use economically the soil according to the accepted principles of land use planning and to ensure and promote sound land use planning. Furthermore, all activities shall be carried out with a view to sustainable development.

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