Recent UNRISD research finds that the new generation of land tenure reforms introduced in the 19990s is not necessarily more gender equitable than earlier efforts, even though women’s ability to gain independent access to land is increasingly on the statutes.

The report describes the impacts of forestry decentralization on district finance, local communities and spatial planning, drawing on an 18-month research project in Bulungan District in East Kalimantan Province. It describes forestry management policies following the implementation of regional autonomy, and their impacts on district revenue and local livelihoods. The authors analyze district spatial planning, forest land use and community control over forest lands.

The report describes the impacts of forestry decentralization on district finance, local communities and spatial planning, drawing on an 18-month research project in Bulungan District in East Kalimantan Province. It describes forestry management policies following the implementation of regional autonomy, and their impacts on district revenue and local livelihoods. The authors analyze district spatial planning, forest land use and community control over forest lands.

The study explores the relationship between decentralization and conflict, comparing two case studies in Cambodia and the Philippines. It addresses to what degree and in what ways decentralization influences conflicts that are related to natural resources management (NRM), especially where local institutions are often unrepresentative of, and unaccountable to local communities. In developing countries, the research indicates that sufficient time is an essential component for bringing about genuine and effective local governance, as well as being a means for averting conflict.

Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives continues to play an important role in land tenure and rural development studies and more specifically as part of FAO’s programmes since its first publication in 1963. In the last decade, the issues of good governance, new institutional structures and methodological approaches offering a wider perspective have become important elements of the debate. The articles in this volume of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives reflect this in a variety of ways.

Depuis 1970, l’agglomération de Libreville, à l’instar des autres villes de l’Afrique subsaharienne, connaît une occupation spatiale qui s’opère par les initiatives individuelles. Malgré la panoplie de textes législatifs et réglementaires qui régissent le foncier et l’urbanisme, la pratique la plus répandue d’appropriation du sol reste la squatterisation et l’urbanisation spontanée. Cette forme d’occupation territoriale et la rapide croissance démographique de Libreville ont favorisé la formation des quartiers sous-intégrés et l’extension incontrôlée de la ville.

Al inicio del Gobierno del Presidente Ricardo Lagos Escobar se convocó, bajo la conducción del Servicio Nacional de Turismo, Sernatur, al sector público y privado, a realizar un diagnóstico de la actividad turística y elaborar propuestas para su desarrollo, que culminó con la Agenda del Turismo.

The study was based on initial research during 2000 and 2002 in the districts of Kapuas, Central Kalimantan, supplemented with interviews with policy makers in Jakarta during July-August 2001. This paper considers how the decentralization process involves legal and institutional changes that encompass a wide arrary of actors, institutions and levels of government. It raises issues of coordination, negotiation and conflict across multiple levels and jurisdictions.

Esta gua sobre Descentralizacin e impuesto predial rural se ha preparado con el fin de ayudar a los gestores catastrales que participan en el diseo y aplicacin del impuesto predial rural. Cada vez ms, se pide a las instituciones que se ocupan de la tenencia de la tierra que contribuyan a la descentralizacin de los servicios en beneficio de los gobiernos locales. Una de las expectativas de la descentralizacin es mejorar la prestacin de servicios por el nivel de gobierno que se encuentre ms prximo a los beneficiarios de los mismos.

This volume is intended to support land administrators who are involved with the design and implementation of rural property tax systems. It is based on FAO’s Land Tenure Studies Number 5, which focused on rural property tax in Central and Eastern Europe. The response to that guide showed a need for information on rural property tax systems to be more easily available in other regions. In addition, this volume places a rural property tax more explicitly in the context of decentralization.

This publication considers fisheries management policies in the Mediterranean in the light of the new objectives of sustainability and governance. Emphasis is put on the decentralization of public action and the reform of institutional mechanisms.The first chapter assesses the historical and societal bases of the dualism of small-scale fisheries and industrial fisheries. The dialectical relationship of power between these socio-economic categories is a result of arbitration by the public authorities that have entered into a spiral of interventionism.