This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2016South America, Africa, Europe, United States of America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2008Brazil
The Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) is one of the best-known and most prominent rural social movements. The unequal distribution of land in Brazil, and the neglect of this problem by successive Brazilian governments contributed greatly to the organisation of rural movements striving for the implementation of land reform in the country. The struggle for land therefore frames the MST collective action and legitimates its raison d'être as a social movement.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1951South Africa, Bolivia, United States of America
An international journal of forestry and forest industries
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Library ResourceVideosMay, 2017Kenya, United States of America
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2018United States of America
In 2005, massive hurricanes battered communities along the Gulf Coast of the United States. In the aftermath, thousands of families who lived on land passed down to them informally by parents and grandparents learned that because they lacked clear formal title to their properties, they were ineligible for disaster assistance to rebuild their homes. Related title issues in other regions kept families from developing inherited lands and allowed predatory developers to use court-ordered partition sales to grab long-held properties for pennies on the dollar.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Costa Rica
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Brazil
Resumo Após uma década da aprovação do Estatuto da Cidade - marco regulatório da política urbana no Brasil inserido no ¢mbito das reformas políticas e jurídicas anunciadas pela Constituinte de 1988 - cabe debater se, onde, quando e de que forma este tem sido implementado no país. Este balanço não pode deixar de considerar as dimensões do processo político e social que deram origem ao Estatuto, assim como de que forma estas mesmas dimensões foram se transformando no país ao longo dos dez anos que nos separam de sua aprovação pelo Congresso Nacional.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2011Brazil
Estatuto da Cidade se insere em amplo processo de reforma jurídica Complementação por novas leis federais Uma nova ordem jurídico-urbanística Ordem jurídica mudou significativa e Estructuralmente Nova ordem institucional na esfera federal Mercantilização da cidade Defasagem jurídica Defasagem institucional Conteúdos do Estatuto da Cidade Um novo paradigma sobre a questão da propiedades Ordem pública e direitos colectivos Natureza jurídica do planejamento territorial Natureza da gestão urbana Lembrar do debate constituinte Limites da ordem jurídica Problemas de eficácia jurídica Problemas de
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesAugust, 2021Colombia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2015Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay
Un resumen de experiencias prometedoras en materia de vivienda adecuada y asentamientos humanos en América Latina y el Caribe. Dichas experiencias fueron seleccionadas por medio de un Comité Calificador, compuesto por representantes de las instituciones organizadoras del Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Vivienda Adecuada, a partir de más de 70 concursantes.
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