Land Tenure Center Newsletter
Number 81, Spring 2001, p. 11
No. 43. Patterns of Tenure Insecurity in Guyana
Harold Lemel, April 2001, 43 p., paper copy $4.00
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Examines the impact on land tenure dynamics from unique aspects in Guyana’s development. Three tenure sectors are identified, and issues explored include: challenges posed by undivided ownership, violations of the law, and vagueness in how rights to land are documented and physically defined through surveys.
No. 44. North America Series. The Decline (and Revival?) of Black Farmers and Rural Landowners: A Review of the Research Literature
Jess Gilbert, Gwen Sharp, and M. Sindy Felin, May 2001, 26 p., paper copy $4.00
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Reviews journal articles, reports, chapters, and books on African-Americans and farming, comprising most of the scholarly literature on the issue since 1971. The literature covers a range of issues that differentiate black farmers by subregion, state, farm size, tenure, crops raised, and social and economic situation.
No. 45. Indigenous Land and Community Security: A (Radical) Planning Agenda
Marcus Lane, forthcoming
Posits that the capacity of indigenous groups to engage effectively in environmental planning activities is crucial to securing land justice and community security. This argument is made in the context of questions over resource sovereignty and tensions between indigenous peoples residing in post-settler societies and nation-states.
No. 3. Control of Land and Life in Burma
Nancy Hudson-Rodd and Myo Nyunt, April 2001, 8 p., paper copy free (single copies; additional copies $1.00 each)
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Outlines significant land problems in Burma such as landlessness, rural poverty, inequality of access to resources, and a military regime that denies citizen rights. Identifies the need for a framework that ensures sustainable development of land to address social, legal, economic and technical dimensions of land management.
No. 152. "Practicing Land Consolidation in a Changing World of Land Use Planning"
Harvey M. Jacobs, March 2001, $4.00.
Reprinted from: Kart og Plan (Norwegian Journal on Mapping and Planning Sciences), vol. 60, no. 3 (2000), p. 175-182.
Argues that land use is becoming redefined as an area of social planning, rather than technical planning. While this redefinition can be difficult for practitioners, it will lead to more enduring land use plans.
No. 153. "State Property Rights Laws: Recent Impacts and Future Implications"
Stacey S. White, May 2001, $4.00.
Reprinted from: Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, vol. 52, no. 7 (July 2000), p. 3-9.
Closely examines recent property rights laws and their impacts in Florida and Texas, examining their use, economic impacts, and effects on land-use planning.
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