Evaluation of innovative land tools in sub-Saharan Africa: Three cases from a peri-urban context

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to...

Adapting land administration to the institutional framework of customary tenure: The case of peri-urban Ghana

Greening Governance: An Evolutionary Approach to Policy Making for a Sustainable Built Environment

After twenty years of sustainable building policies, the issue of environmental impact of buildings and urban environments remains. Policy makers still have difficulties addressing the ambiguous, contested and dynamic goals encapsulated in the term ‘sustainable development’. How to decide between using zinc or PVC gutters, when knowledge and...

Building regulatory enforcement regimes: Comparative analysis of private sector involvement in the enforcement of public building regulations

It is often assumed that traditional regulatory regimes centered on governmental action will benefit from greater private sector involvement. And, under the catchy phrase "from government to governance" globally a wide variety of hybrid forms of governance has emerged. However, little empirical insight exists in the actual effects of such...

Gemeentegrenzen in Nederland: Een juridisch, technisch en kadastraal onderzoek

Gemeenten vormen een belangrijke pijler in de structuur van de overheid in Nederland. Hun invloed beperkt zich uiteraard tot het eigen grondgebied, en daarvoor is het nodig dat de gemeentegrenzen goed bekend zijn. Er bestaat in Nederland echter geen offici registratie van gemeentegrenzen. Het Kadaster heeft weliswaar deze grenzen op kaart staan,...

Developing geographic information infrastructure: The role of information policies

Within information societies, information availability is a key issue affecting societyâs well being. The infrastructure underlying the foundation of the information society may be referred to as the information infrastructure. A geographic information infrastructure (GII) supports the information infrastructure with regard to geographic...

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