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Book SynopsisThis book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy. It deals with land issues within the interface of theory and practice. Part 3 covers Applications and experiences: techniques, strategies, tools, methods, and case studies. Part 4 focuses on Land governance, gender, and tenure innovations. Case studies discussed include China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Korea, etc. Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries. This book: · Includes theoretical or empirical studies on land governance and gender from a diverse group of countries. · Provides the basis for a new land administration theory to be set against conventional land administration approaches. · Offers, in an accessible manner, a range of new tools for design and evaluation of land management interventions. The book will be valuable for students and researchers in land governance, urban and rural planning, international development,natural resource management, agriculture, community development, and gender studies. It is also useful for land practitioners, including those working within international organizations.Table of Contents1: Introducing Land Governance and Gender in the Context of Land Tenure 1: Concepts, Debates and Perspectives on the Governance and Gender Aspects of Land 2: Gender, Structural Inequality and Just Governance 3: Land Tenure and the Nuanced Gender Debates in Sub-Saharan Africa: Realities and Illusions 4: Land Governance and Gender in Support of the Global Agenda 2030 5: Governing African Land in an Era of Instability 2: Tenure–Gender Dimensions in Land Management, Land Administration and Land Policy 6: Advancing Women’s Position by Recognizing and Strengthening Customary Land Rights: Lessons from Community- Based Land Interventions in Mozambique 7: Women’s Insights on Bargaining for Land in Customary Tenure Systems: Land Access as an Individual and Collective Issue 8: Gender-Sensitivity in Land Management: Trajectory of Housing, Agriculture and Land Ownership in South Korea 9: Analysing Non-Legal Barriers to Land Ownership by Women 3: Applications and Experiences: Techniques, Strategies, Tools, Methods and Case Studies 10: The Evolvement of Land Consolidation in Rural China from the Perspective of Governing Tension between Construction Land Expansion and Farmland Protection 11: Discourse on Women and Land Tenure in Ghana: Does a Matrilineal Land Tenure System Make a Difference for Women? 12: The Gender Dimensions of Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia 1995–2020 13: The Paradox of Islamic Land Governance and Gender Equality 4: Land Governance, Gender and Tenure Innovations 14: Transforming Legal Status of Customary Land Rights: What this Means for Women and Men in Rural Africa 15: Women and Land Inheritance under Legal Pluralism in Lesotho 16: Tenure-Responsive Zoning Regulations for Better Gender Equality in Land Management in Kigali City, Rwanda 17: New Hope and Future for Rural Areas under COVID-19 Circumstances? Rural Development, Pandemic Liveability and Reverse Migration 18: Using Urban Literacy to Strengthen Land Governance and Women’s Empowerment in Peri-Urban Communities of San Andrés Cholula, Mexico 19: Land Governance and Gender for a Tenure-Responsive Future

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