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Title Holding their ground : secure land tenure for the urban poor in developing countries / edited by Alain Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston
Published London : Earthscan, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 264 pages)
Contents International trends and country contexts: from tenure regularization to tenure security / Alain Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston -- Security of tenure in Indian cities / Banashree Banerjee -- Policies for tenure security in Delhi / Neelima Risbud -- Security of tenure: Mumbai's experience / Minar Pimple and Lysa John -- Security of tenure of irregular settlements in Visakhapatnam / Banashree Banerjee -- Providing security of land tenure for the urban poor: the Brazilian experience / Edesio Fernandes -- Security of tenure in São Paolo / Ellade Imparato -- The right to housing and the prevention of forced evictions in Brazil / Nelson Saule Junior -- Favela Bairro: a brief institutional analysis of the programme and its land aspects / Sonia Rabello de Castro -- Security of urban tenure in South Africa: overview of policy and practice / Lauren Royston -- Evaluating tenure intervention in informal settlements in South Africa / Maria Huchzermeyer -- Why the urban poor cannot secure tenure: South African tenure policy under pressure / Catherine Cross -- Privatizing displaced urbanization in greater Nelspruit / Cecile Ambert -- A land management approach for informal settlement in South Africa / Colin Davies and Clarissa Fourie -- Evaluating the experience of Brazilian, South African, and Indian urban tenure programmes / Donald A. Krueckeberg and Kurt G. Paulsen -- The experience of tenure security in Brazil, South Africa, and India: what prospects for the future? / Alain Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston
Summary Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond to the demands and needs of the majority of squatters and informal settlements and analyzes how urban stakeholders with different social legal and economic constraints find innovative and flexible solutions. The book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on comparative research on tenure polic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Land tenure -- Developing countries
City planning -- Developing countries
Urban poor -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
Urban poor -- Developing countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Urban poor
City planning
Land tenure
Urban poor -- Social conditions
Landnahme
Aufsatzsammlung
Landpacht
Armut
Stadt
Landrechten.
Stadsbevolking.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Durand-Lasserve, Alain
Royston, Lauren, 1967-
ISBN 9781849771566
1849771561
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