La compleja historia y desarrollo de la institución comunal de uso y propiedad de la tierra en las comunidades campesinas del Ande peruano hoy vuelven a tomar un nuevo rumbo. Los cambios recientes en las normas que la gobiernan, especialmente en la Nueva Ley de Tierras 26505, ponen en preocupación el destino que les espera a las comunidades campesinas y su medio ambiente. Las reflexiones presentadas en esta investigación, a partir de la percepción de los actores locales, muestran las posibles tendencias de la institución comunal de uso y propiedad de la tierra para regular sus recursos.

Background paper for an IDS Sussex workshop on new ideas on the rights to land, housing and property. Contains a renewed focus on poverty and, within that, a new focus on land rights; livelihoods and rights-based approaches; the World Bank and received orthodoxy in land policy; DFID’s focus on land rights in Africa; Francophone perspectives; recent World Bank thinking; the mysteries of capitalism (a discussion of de Soto); lessons learnt.

La définitio n de mécanismes app ropriés à la lu tte contre les activités illé gales et la corruption dans le sec t eur forestier dev rait constituer un des fondements des réformes législativ es entreprises par une majorité de pays africains. Ce nouveau cadre juridique est une des conditions préalables à la gestion durable des ressources forestières . Les principales caractéristiques des nouvelles lois sont une reconnaiss ance des valeurs sociales, écono miques et environnementales et leur intégration dans les object ifs de la gestion durable des forêts.

A Briefing Document by Global Witness. October 2003...

Table of Contents... Recommendations...
Introduction...
Summary:
Natural Resources and Conflict in Burma;
SLORC/SPDC-controlled logging;
China-Burma relations and logging in Kachin State;
Thailand-Burma relations and logging in Karen State...

#039;Capitalizing on Conflict' presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems,
and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights
abuses, in Burma. Although trade in these “conflict goods” accounts for a small
percentage of the total global trade, it severely compromises human security and
undermines socio-economic development, not only in Burma, but throughout the
region.
Ironically, cease-fire agreements signed between the late 1980s and early 1990s

The consultancy required a Project Completion Report of DFID’s support to the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) and advice to DFID on possible future activities that would support pro poor land reform in Kenya. This final report has been prepared following the comments on the draft report by the Hon Kimunya, Minister of Lands and Settlement, and senior managers in the Ministry, the responsible DFID-Kenya officials and KLA’s Co-ordinator.

This National Action Plan developed in 2003 by the Republic of Tajikistan is a national-wide policy aiming at implementing the commitments of the Republic of Tajikistan concerning the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Thus, the document indicates the priorities and measures to be undertaken to address the problem of climate change, to develop a capacity for further research and analysis of the climate system, its variability and change, to strengthen the international cooperation and joined efforts to mitigate climate change.

This paper explores the economics of land degradation in the rice-shrimp system inthe Mekong Delta of Vietnam. A bioeconomic NPV model was developed toevaluate and compare the long-term benefits of alternative production choices andfarm technologies. There is an alternative rice-shrimp technology emerging inVietnam that does not have the same land degrading impacts as the 'traditional'system, however the high capital outlay and risk associated with such technologypresents its own problems.

Recent environmental assessments have highlighted the extent of land degradation inAustralia and the significant costs involved in addressing it. With projected investment costsrunning into tens of billions of dollars, it is not surprising that greater attention is now beingfocussed on who should pay. One idea gathering significant momentum has been theimposition of an environmental levy.

The Bermuda Biodiversity Action Plan is a 5-year nation-wide document that provides a framework for focusing resources and addresses the most pressing conservation issues facing Bermuda’s biodiversity, by setting out clearly defined but realistic conservation targets, as well as a series of prioritized, practical approaches for achieving these.Main principles underlying the biodiversity conservation Plan are (i) decision-making should be based on the best available knowledge, taking into account social, cultural and economic issues; (ii) necessity of integrated, holistic and realistic appro

The present Law lays down provisions relating to the right of wood and pasture exploitation in the Region of Carinthia. The text consists of 63 articles divided into 9 chapters as follows: General provisions (I); New regulation and regulation of traditional rights (II); Transfer of exploitation rights (III); Safeguard of rights of use (IV); Basic rights of wood cutting in case of need (V); Special field services (VI); Authorities and proceedings (VII); Penalties (VIII).

As the Government of Kenya treads the path to economic recovery, every Kenyan should be at home with the fact that many forms of economic development activities damage the natural resources upon which the economies are based. Nationally and internationally, a major environmental and development challenge is how to maintain the equilibrium between population, ecosystems and development.