Land Use Law for Sustainable Development

Herausgeber: Chalifour, Nathalie J.; Lye, Lin Heng; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2007 book surveys the global experience in implementing land-use policies to move towards sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 654
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1210g
• ISBN-13: 9781107410480
• ISBN-10: 1107410487
• Artikelnr.: 36197480

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Message; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction by editors
(including some comments from Professor Charles Okidi); 2. Distinguished
lectures; Part II. International Issues and Legal Responses to Sustainable
Land Management: 3. Is conservation a viable land usage? Issues surrounding
the sale of ivory by Southern African countries in 2004; 4. Land use and
climate change in Africa; 5. Climate change adaptation and mitigation:
exploring the role of land reforms in Africa; 6. The integration of
landscape into land use planning policy in relation to the new European
landscape convention; 7. EIA legislation and the importance of
transboundary application; Part III. National Approaches to Land Use
Planning for Sustainable Development: A. Africa: 8. Community rights to
genetic resources and their knowledge: African and Ethiopian perspectives;
9. Easements and wildlife conservation in Kenya; 10. Land tenure, land use
and sustainable environmental management in Kenya: towards innovative
property rights in wildlife management; 11. The development of
environmental law and its impact on sustainable use of wetlands in Uganda;
12. EIA and the four Ps: some observations from South Africa; 13. From
bureaucratic-controlled to stakeholders-driven urban planning and
management: experiences and challenges of environmental planning and
management in Tanzania; 14. Cooperative environmental governance in
developing countries: some perspectives on the integration of environmental
authorisations in South Africa; 15. Environmental law and sustainable land
use in Nigeria; 16. The role of administrative dispute resolution
institutions and processes in sustainable land use management: the case of
the national environment tribunal and the public complaints committee of
Kenya; 17. Managing the environmental impact of refugees in Kenya: the role
of national accountability and environmental law; 18. Environmental Impact
Assessment Law and land use: a comparative analysis of recent trends in the
Nigerian and US oil and gas industry; 19. Managing land use and
environmental conflicts in Cameroon; B. Asia: 20. Environmental law reform
to control land degradation in the People's Republic of China: a view of
the legal framework of the GEF-PRC partnership program; 21. Urbanization
and Environmental challenges in Pakistan; 22. Land stewardship and the law:
the ASEAN Heritage Parks and transboundary biodiversity conservation; 23.
Land-use planning, environmental management and the garden city as an urban
development approach in Singapore; 24. The law and preparation of
environmental management plans for sustainable development in Thailand; 25.
Nepal's legal initiatives on land use for sustainable development; C.
Australia: 26. Environmental law and irrigated land in Australia; 27.
Environmental impact assessment: addressing the major weaknesses; D. Latin
America: 28. Protection of natural spaces in Brazilian environmental law;
29. Land use planning in Mexico: as framed by social development and
environmental policies; 30. Argentina's constitution and general
environment law as the framework for comprehensive land use regulation; E.
North America: 31. Economic incentives to promote land stewardship; 32. The
2004 US Ocean Report and its implications for land use reform to improve
ocean water quality; 33. Historical overview of the American land system: a
diagnostic approach to evaluating governmental land use control; 34. Human
settlement priorities: missing legal elements in sustainable development.