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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2018
    United States of America

    In 2005, massive hurricanes battered communities along the Gulf Coast of the United States. In the aftermath, thousands of families who lived on land passed down to them informally by parents and grandparents learned that because they lacked clear formal title to their properties, they were ineligible for disaster assistance to rebuild their homes. Related title issues in other regions kept families from developing inherited lands and allowed predatory developers to use court-ordered partition sales to grab long-held properties for pennies on the dollar.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Colombia

    El propósito central de la propuesta de investigación es responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿la proliferación de respuestas teóricas al desplazamiento forzado, impulsada con la declaratoria del estado de cosas inconstitucional (ECI) en 2004, generó algún cambio en el paradigma de la responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado (REPE), que orientó al Consejo de Estado al definir la responsabilidad de las autoridades por desplazamiento forzado (DEFO), entre 2004 y 2010?

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Peru

    Los Estados a través de la suscripción de instrumentos internacionales en materias de promoción y protección de inversiones, otorgan determinados estándares de tratamiento a inversionistas (ya sean estas personas jurídicas o naturales). Sin embargo, a veces estos se ven forzados a modificar de manera sustancial el ordenamiento jurídico bajo el cual se venían desarrollando las actividades económicas de los inversionistas extranjeros.

  4. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 49

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2015
    Global

    Societal drivers including poverty eradication, gender equality, indigenous recognition, adequate housing, sustainable agriculture, food security, climate change response, and good governance, influence contemporary land administration design. Equally, the opportunities provided by technological development also influence design approaches. The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) attempts to align both: the data model provides a standardised global vocabulary for land administration.

  5. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2021
    Global

    The Open Up Guide on Land Governance is a resource  aimed to be used by governments from developing countries to collect and release land-related data to improve data quality, availability, accessibility and use for improved citizen engagement, decision making and innovation. It sets out:

    1. Key datasets for land management accountability, and how they should be collected, stored, shared and published for improving land governance and transparency;

  6. Library Resource
    Guide pour l’ouverture des donn es ouvertes
    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2021
    Global

    Les Open Up Guides sont des outils pratiques développés par l’ODC et ses partenaires thématiques pour aider les gouvernements et d’autres acteurs à utiliser la publication d’ensembles de données stratégiques pour relever les principaux défis politiques. Ils s’appuient sur des preuves pratiques tout en recueillant des enseignements pour s’assurer que les normes mondiales sont applicables localement.

  7. Library Resource

    The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy

    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2021
    Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, Mexico, China, Germany

    This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.

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