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Land use law for sustainable development /
This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. The international community has long recognized the need to ensure ongoing and future development is conducted sustainably. While high-level commit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | IUCN Academy of Environmental Law research studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Distinguished lectures / Akio Morishima
- pt I. International issues and legal responses to sustainable land management. Is conservation a viable land usage? issues surrounding the sale of ivory by Southern African countries in 2004 / Ed Couzens ; Climate change and land use in Africa / David Hodas ; Climate change adaptation and mitigation: exploring the role of land reforms in Africa / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo ; The integration of landscape into land use planning policy in relation to the New European Landscape Convention / Michael Prieur ; EIA legislation and the importance of transboundary application / Lana Roux and Willemien du Plessis
- pt II. National approaches to land use planning for sustainable development. Community rights to genetic resources and their knowledge: African and Ethiopian perspectives / Mekete Bekele ; Easements and wildlife conservation in Kenya / Nyokabi Gitahi ; Land tenure, land use and sustainability in Kenya: toward innovative use of property rights in wildlife management / Patricia Kameri- Mbote ; The development of environmental law and its impact on sustainable use of wetlands in Uganda / Emmanuel Kasimbazi ; EIA and the four Ps: some observations from South Africa / Michael Kidd ; From bureaucratic-controlled to stakeholder-driven urban planning and management: experiences and challenges of environmental planning and management in Tanzania / W.J. Kombe ; Strategies for integrated environmental governance in South Africa: toward a more sustainable environmental governance and land use regime / Louis Kotze ; Environmental law and sustainable land use in Nigeria / Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan ; 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 / Albert Mumma ; Managing the environmental impact of refugees in Kenya: the role of national accountability and environmental law / George Okoth-Obbo ; Environmental impact assessment law and land use: a comparative analysis of recent trends in the Nigerian and U.S. oil and gas industry / Bibobra Bello Orubebe ; Managing land use and environmental conflicts in Cameroon / Nchunu Sama ; Environmental law reform to control land degradation in the People's Republic of China: a view of the legal framework of the PRC-GEF Partnership Program / Ian Hannam and Du Qun ; Urbanization and environmental challenges in Pakistan / Parvez Hassan ; ASEAN Heritage Parks and transboundary biodiversity conservation / Koh Kheng Lian ; Land-use planning, environmental management and the Garden City as an urban development approach in Singapore / Lin Heng Lye ; The law and preparation of environmental management plans for sustainable development in Thailand / Sunee Mallikamarl and Nuntapol Karnchanawat ; Nepal's legal initiatives on land use for sustainable development / Amber Prasad Pant ; Environmental law and irrigated land in Australia / Karen Bubna-Litic ; Environmental impact assessment: addressing the major weaknesses / Michael I. Jeffery ; Protection of natural spaces in Brazilian environmental law / Jose R. Morato Leite, Heline S. Ferreira and Patryck de Araujo Ayala ; Land use planning in Mexico: as framed by social development and environmental policies / Gabriela Pavon and Jose Juan Gonzalez ; Argentina's constitution and General Environment Law as the framework for comprehensive land use regulation / Juan Rodrigo Walsh ; Ecological economics, sustainable land use, and policy choices / Nathalie J. Chalifour ; The 2004 U.S. Ocean Report and its implications for land use reform to improve ocean water quality / Linda A. Malone ; Historical overview of the American land use system: a diagnostic approach to evaluating governmental land use control / John Nolon.