Overview
- Focuses on the new challenges of urban land governance in Sub-Saharan Africa following the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Habitat New Urban Agenda (passed at Habitat III in Quito in 2016)
- Cross-disciplinary treatment of a rapidly evolving topic
- Provides new knowledge from both academic and professional perspectives on land governance
Part of the book series: Local and Urban Governance (LUG)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It will attract readers from urban specialisms in law, geography and other social sciences, and from professionals and policy-makers concerned with land use planning, surveying and governance.
Among the topics addressed by the book are challenges to governance institutions: how international development is delivered, building land management capacity, funding for urban infrastructure, land-based finance, ineffective planning regulation, and the role of alternatives to courts in resolving boundary and other land disputes. Issues of rights and land titling are explored from perspectives of human rights law (the right to development, and women's rights of access to land), and land tenure regularization. Particular challenges of housing, planning and informality are addressed through contributions on international real estate investment, community participation in urban settlement upgrading, housing delivery as a partly failing project to remedy apartheid's legacy, and complex interactions between political power, money and land. Infrastructure challenges are approached in studies of food security and food systems, urban resilience against natural and man-made disasters, and informal public transport.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Editors: Robert Home
Series Title: Local and Urban Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52504-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52503-3Published: 12 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52506-4Published: 12 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52504-0Published: 11 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 360
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Governance and Government, Public Policy, Urban Politics, Urban Economics, Urban Studies/Sociology