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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2016
    South-Eastern Asia, Myanmar

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "In recent years, many governments globally have formally recognized community land and natural resource tenure, either based on existing customary practices or more recently established land governance arrangements.1 These tenure arrangements have been called by a variety of names, such as community, customary, communal, collective, indigenous, ancestral, or native land rights recognition. In essence, they seek to establish the rights of a group to obtain joint tenure security over their community’s land.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2016
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    CONCLUSION:
    "A developing country like Lao PDR is struggling to gain recognition from other countries
    in the world. This requires that the country applies a human rights perspective to
    governance of land. In this case the land rights are the rights of the ethnic groups in the
    uplands that practice customary communal tenure. These groups would like the
    government to accept and register their communal land use legally. The first step
    towards this is in the development of the National Land Use Policy which is still in draft.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2014
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    A Report to Enhance Discussions about
    Customary Land Rights in Burma.....This purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of the
    issues and current
    situations facing ethnic and indigenous communities around the
    world that are
    using a customary rights framework to manage their land and natural resources.
    By outlining these experiences, ethnic groups in Burma will be
    able to better understand their own context and
    possibilities as they struggle to gain control over

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2014
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    A Report to Enhance Discussions about Customary Land Rights in Burma.....This purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of the
    issues and current
    situations facing ethnic and indigenous communities around the
    world that are
    using a customary rights framework to manage their land and natural resources.
    By outlining these experiences, ethnic groups in Burma will be
    able to better understand their own context and
    possibilities as they struggle to gain control over
    their lands during this transitional time. While examining how

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2016
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    Abstract: "Global economic change and policy interventions
    are driving transitions from long-fallow swidden (LFS)
    systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia’s uplands.
    This study presents a systematic review of how these
    transitions impact upon livelihoods and ecosystem services
    in the region. Over 17 000 studies published between 1950
    and 2015 were narrowed, based on relevance and quality, to
    93 studies for further analysis. Our analysis of land-use
    transitions from swidden to intensified cropping systems

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    Elinor "Lin" Ostrom (born Elinor Claire Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Oliver E. Williamson for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons". To date, she remains the only woman to win The Prize in Economics.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2005
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    ABSTRACT:
    "Is there a ‘best practice’ model for the legal recognition of customary tenure?
    If not, is it possible to identify the circumstances in which a particular model
    would be most appropriate? This article considers these questions in the light
    of economic theories of property rights, particularly as illustrated by the
    World Bank’s 2003 land policy report. While these theories have their flaws,
    the underlying concept of tenure security allows a typological framework for

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2011
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    Summary: "This paper presents an overview of the distinctive
    features of communal tenure in
    different community-based land and natural resource
    management systems. Communal
    tenure refers to situations where groups, communities, or one or more villages have
    well defined, exclusive rights to jointly own and/or manage particular areas of natural
    resources such as land, forest and water. These are
    often referred to as
    common pool
    resources: many rural communities are dependent on these resources for their

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 1998
    Myanmar, South-Eastern Asia

    ...The main purpose of this paper is to examine legal measures taken to recognize
    indigenous groups and provide for their ongoing operation; the paper starts, therefore, from an
    underlying assumption that indigenous groups have continued relevance to the needs and wishes
    of the people who operate within them. Nevertheless, while it is beyond the scope and purpose of
    the paper to explore this complex issue in any depth, it may be useful to present – however briefly
    – some of the arguments made for and against the preservation of indigenous groups. In the

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