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Research on the Distribution and Scale Evolution of Suzhou Gardens under the Urbanization Process from the Tang to the Qing Dynasty

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia, China, Russia, United States of America, Vietnam
Urban Tenure
research
scale
urbanization
Suzhou city was the cultural centre of ancient south China. It continues the urban pattern of more than 800 years ago. Suzhou gardens are the essence of Chinese gardening art, as well as the valuable world cultural heritage site. This paper compared the evolution in the distribution and scale of Suzhou gardens among five historical periods, and discussed the influence of urbanization on gardening.
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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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On Equal Ground: Promising Practices for Realizing Women’s Rights in Collectively Held Lands

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.
- Also in
- Español
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EN IGUALDAD DE CONDICIONES. Prácticas prometedoras para la materialización de los derechos de las mujeres a las tierras de posesión colectiva

Reports & Research
February, 2021
Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
sustainable development
land tenure
common rights
community land rights
group tenure arrangements
commons
collective ownership
land tenure systems
common property
local communities
women
La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva. Lamentablemente, las mujeres de todo el mundo tienen menos tierra en propiedad y derechos más débiles que los hombres, pero esto puede cambiar, y este informe muestra cómo hacerlo.
- Also in
- English
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Organizing for transformation? How and why organizers plan their multi-stakeholder forums

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2021
Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Indonesia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
equal rights
development
public participation
forestry
forest conservation
land use
land conservation
land use change
land stakeholders
local communities
HIGHLIGHTS
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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Droits sur le carbone

Reports & Research
June, 2021
Africa, Ethiopia, Congo, Americas, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Asia, Philippines, Vietnam
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
food security
community forestry
land tenure
community land rights
tenure security
L’étude a analysé dans 31 pays l’état de la reconnaissance juridique des droits des peuples autochtones, des communautés locales et des populations afro-descendantes sur le carbone présent sur leurs terres et territoires. Ensemble, ces pays détiennent près de 70 % des forêts tropicales du globe, et cinq d’entre eux disposent des plus grandes surfaces de forêt tropicale : le Brésil, la RDC, l’Indonésie, le Pérou et la Colombie.
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Where Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: Challenges in Shaping Sustainable & Scalable Land Interventions

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2021
Egypt, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Vietnam, Palestine, Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
sustainable development
tenure security
land stakeholders
government
local communities
LAND-at-scale is a land governance support program for developing countries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, which was launched in 2019. The aim of the program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale in lower- and middle-income countries/regions/landscapes. The program is designed to scale successful land governance initiatives and to generate and disseminate lessons learned to facilitate further scaling.
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Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights

Case Studies from Brazil, Indonesia, Georgia, India and Rwanda

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Rwanda, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Georgia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
rural development
community forestry
land rights
displacement
dispossession
community land rights
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
rural population

Digital technologies cut off access to land

Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.