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Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2017
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban areas
land use
Urban green spaces provide important recreational, social and psychological benefits to stressed city residents. This paper aims to understand the importance of parks for visitors. We focus on Delhi, the world’s second most populous city, drawing on 123 interviews with park visitors in four prominent city parks. Almost all respondents expressed the need for more green spaces. Visitors valued parks primarily for environmental and psychological/health benefits.
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Urban Growth Dynamics in Perth, Western Australia: Using Applied Remote Sensing for Sustainable Future Planning

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urban population
urban areas
sustainable land use
land-use planning
Earth observation data can provide valuable assessments for monitoring the spatial extent of (un)sustainable urban growth of the world’s cities to better inform planning policy in reducing associated economic, social and environmental costs. Western Australia has witnessed rapid economic expansion since the turn of the century founded upon extensive natural resource extraction. Thus, Perth, the state capital of Western Australia, has encountered significant population and urban growth in response to the booming state economy.
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LAND GOVERNANCE IN URBAN AREAS CASE OF NAIROBI CITY COUNTY

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
cadastral administration
intensive land use
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land information systems
land management
land use
land-use planning
land valuation
sustainable land use
urban planning
urbanization
Globalisation and urbanisation trends in developing countries present both opportunities for growth and development on one hand while contributing to the complex myriad challenges of managing urbanisation on the other hand. Cities and urban areas play a critical in the development of a country. They provide platforms that incorporate intense combination of economic, cultural and political factors of a country or region. Nairobi city is Kenya’s economic capital and is a major economic hub in Africa.
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DEVELOPING LAND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LIMS) FOR COUNTY GOVERNMENTS IN KENYA: A CASE STUDY KIRINYAGA COUNTY.

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
capacity development
forest management plans
geographical information systems
intensive land use
land access
land administration
land governance
land information systems
land management
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
natural resources management
open access (land)
parcel plan
research
right of access
scale
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
urban planning
This paper describes the development of a Land Information Management System (LIMS) for County Governments in Kenya. In the new Constitution 2010, devolution of some national government functions and formation of county governments was provided for. These invoked the development of new land laws to guide the devolution processes and procedures. According to the County Government Act 2012, all County Governments are supposed to develop digital Geographic Information System (GIS) based spatial plans and these calls for development of LIMS for and efficient breakthrough.
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Assessing spatial benefits of urban regeneration programs in a highly vulnerable urban context: A case study in Catania, Italy

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Italy
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urban planning
land use
urban areas
climate change
The relationship between sustainable urban development and environmental sustainability is crucial to every strategy of urban transformation, renewal and regeneration. In particular, urban regeneration entails programmes of urban transformation that involve the rehabilitation of existing parts of a city, re-use previously built-up area and abandoned buildings, and redevelop blighted urban spaces to increase urban sustainability.
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Africa's Cities

Opening Doors to the World

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Urban Tenure
urbanization
property rights
urban planning
land use
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world.
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Land Change Dynamics

Insights from Intensity Analysis Applied to an African Emerging City

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Rwanda, Africa
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land use
Land change in Kigali, Rwanda, is examined using Intensity Analysis, which measures the temporal stationarity of changes among categories. Maps for 1981, 2002 and 2014 were produced that show the land categories Built, Vegetated and Other, which is composed mainly of croplands and bare surfaces. Land change accelerated from the first time interval (1981–2002) to the second time interval (2002–2014), as increased human and economic activities drove land transformation.
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Actual and perceived causes of flood risk: climate versus anthropogenic effects in a wet zone catchment in Sri Lanka

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Sri Lanka
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
climate change
land use
The Kalu Ganga Basin in Sri Lanka is generally flooded once a year. A network of low-lying lands acts as natural retention and storage that captures floodwater, minimizing damage. An increase in the flood frequency has been observed in recent years. It is commonly perceived that this increase is caused by a rise in the frequency and severity of ‘very wet’ precipitation events. We conclude that land-use changes may have played a larger role in generating floods.
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Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
land use
land degradation
Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use in a dynamic and complex socio-ecological system. Land degradation reduces our options to meet both food demands and environmental needs.
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Trade-offs in multi-purpose land use under land degradation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmland
farmers
climate change
land use
urbanization
land degradation
water management
Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use in a dynamic and complex socio-ecological system. Land degradation reduces our options to meet both food demands and environmental needs.