Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform

Name: Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Global Trends in Land Tenure ReformGender Impacts\nAuthor(s): Caroline Archambault, Annelies Zoomers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138787940, 978-1138787940\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting womens positions, their tenure security and well-being, and that of their families.\n\nBringing together fourteen empirical community case studies from around the world, the book examines governance transformations of land and land-based resources resulting from four major processes of tenure change: commercial land based investments, the formalization of customary tenure, the privatization of communal lands, and post-conflict resettlement and redistribution reforms. Each contribution carefully analy.