Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.  Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport decision-making and planning strategies.

Countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region were the first in the developing world to go through rapid urbanisation. Today, the region is the second most urbanised region in the world.

Ces dernières années, l’agrobusiness, les fonds d’investissement et les agences gouvernementales ont procédé à l’acquisition de droits à long terme sur de vastes étendues de terres en Afrique.

During the past several years, biofuels in rich countries have come to be regarded as an important option for reducing consumption of petroleum, which is a main policy goal as a result of recent high oil prices, energy security concerns, and global climate change.

In large parts of the world, the reduction in the viability of agriculture and rural areas is an escalating problem. Sustainable Land Management offers a contemporary overview of the strategies employed to cope with the marginalisation of agriculture, through analyses of case studies and regional trends in marginalisation.

This an authoritative collection of papers that are generally regarded as landmarks in the history of land use planning in the western world.

This handbook identifies recent innovations at the global level in the field of land management and pinpoints land tenure trends. It shows how governments, including local government and other stakeholders, are coming to grips with implementing the land related principles enshrined in the Habitat Agenda at a practical level in the cities and towns.

The report is an account of a sensitization and awareness creation workshop organized for English Speaking African Parliamentarians between 30 April and 2 May 2002 in Nairobi Kenya. The Coalition of African Organizations for Food Security and Sustainable Development (COASAD) organized the workshop in collaboration with UN-HABITAT.

This volume is a compilation of innovations in local governance and decentralization process drawn from the experience of workshops held in each of the three East African region namely; Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

The publication provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the current Land Information Service (LIS) and develops three alternatives for the computerization of LIS in the Kenyan institutional context.

This publication promotes the facilitation of property rights and tenure security to all segments of the population through effective and efficient planning and management of land.

This book presents and discusses several key aspects of Africa’s ongoing land policy debate including legislative reform, the management of land rights, issues of implementation, and policy-making processes.