Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development.

• Author: Holland, Margaret B.
• TeilnehmendeR: Masuda, Yuta J.; Robinson, Brian E.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)

This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and its connections with sustainable development. The book then explores key thematic challenges that interact directly with land tenure security, followed by a section on strategies for addressing tenure insecurity. The book concludes with a section on new frontiers in research, policy, and action. An invaluable reference for researchers in the field and for practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of this important topic. This is an open access book.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- 1: Property Rights, Tenure Form, and Tenure Security -- A Common Thread Underpins Pressing Sustainability Challenges -- Maasai Communities Around the Foothills of Mount Kenya -- Definitions Affect How We Analyze Issues and Develop Solutions -- References -- 2: A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure Security -- How Did We Get Here? -- Development and Dispossession -- Development Dynamics and Tenure Security Complexity -- Vertical Power Interactions -- Horizontal Social Interactions -- Technological Dynamism -- Catastrophes-Natural and Human-Induced -- Historical Trends in the Ebb and Flow of Security and Insecurity -- The Current Situation -- References -- 3: Who Defines Land Tenure Security? De Jure and De Facto Institutions -- Introduction -- Formal, State-Sponsored, De Jure Land Tenure -- Local, Self-Governed, and De Facto Land Tenure -- Informal Rights, Formalization, and Sustainability -- References -- 4: Indigenous and Customary Land Tenure Security: History, Trends, and Challenges in the Latin American Context -- Why Indigenous and Customary Land Tenure? -- Defining (Customary and Indigenous) Land Tenure Regimes -- Pre-Colonial Land Tenure and Today's Customary Systems: A View from Latin America -- Trends in Customary Land Tenure Regimes and their Recognition -- Challenges to Securing Land Tenure for Customary and Indigenous Regimes -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Championing Women's Tenure Security -- Why Should We Care About Women's Tenure Security? -- In Large Portions of the World Women Are Systematically Denied Access and Rights to Land -- Tenure Insecurity Increases Women's Physical, Social, and Economic Vulnerability.

Gender-Blind Interventions Will Not Sufficiently Address Women's Tenure Constraints -- Interventions That Enhance Women's Access to and Control Over Resources Are Likely to Lead to Better Outcomes for Women, Their Families, and Their Communities -- The Scale of the Problem: How Many Women Are Tenure Insecure? -- What Can Be Done to Address Women's Tenure Insecurity? -- Who Are the Tenure Insecure Women? -- Why Are Women Tenure Insecure? -- What Can Be Done? -- Conclusions -- References -- 6: People-Land Relationships on the Path to Sustainable Food Security -- LTS and Sustainable Food Security in the Global Development Rhetoric -- Storylines and Evidence Emerge from a Look at the Literature -- Aggregate Land Scarcity Exacerbated by Population Growth, Unsustainable Land Use, and Climate Change -- Land Access and Inequality -- Incentives and Risks -- Gender -- Shocks and Hazards -- Illustrating the Case: Food Security Challenges and Patterns of Land Tenure in South Asia -- Connecting the Dots between the LTS and Food Security in South Asia -- From Global to Local: Evidence Supports Linking Efforts on LTS and Food Security -- References -- 7: A Complex Relationship: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Land Tenure Security -- Land Tenure Security and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions -- Global Overview -- Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Tenure Security Contextualized: A Case of Zambia -- Does Weak Land Tenure Security Attract Investors in the Zambian Context? -- Diversity of Outcomes of Land Acquisitions -- Impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions on Land Tenure Security in Zambia -- Displacements -- Perception on Land Tenure Security -- Pressure on the Zambian Land Tenure System -- Outlook: LSLAs, Land Tenure Security, and Sustainable Development -- References -- 8: Tenure Security in War-Affected Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability.

Land Tenure Security and Armed Conflict: Before, During, After -- From Tenure Insecurity to Armed Conflict -- From Conflict to Tenure Insecurity -- Opportunities for Post-war Land Tenure Security and Sustainability -- Tenure Security Opportunities in Statutory Tenure Systems -- Tenure Security Opportunities in Customary Tenure Systems -- Lessons Learned for Afghanistan -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Land Tenure Insecurity and Climate Adaptation: Socio-Environmental Realities in Colombia and Implications for Integrated Environmental Rights and Participatory Policy -- Winners and Losers in the Climate Change Landscape -- The Tangled Web of Land Tenure Security and Adaptation -- Complicated Land Tenure in Colombia (Past and Present) -- Climate Adaptation Amidst Tenure Confusion: The Case of Montes de María, Colombia -- Looking Forward: Considering Land Tenure and Climate Adaptation Together -- References -- 10: Interaction of Conditional Incentives for Ecosystem Conservation with Tenure Security: Multiple Roles for Tenure Interventions -- The Role of Tenure in PES Programs -- The Wide Spectrum of Conditionality and Tenure Security -- Tenure Interventions in the Context of the Dedicated Grant Mechanism -- Successes and Pitfalls with Formalization of Tenure Rights in the Context of Conditional Incentives -- References -- 11: Strategies for Securing Tenure: The Promise and Pitfalls of Formalization -- What Is Land Formalization and How Does It Connect with Tenure Security? -- What Do We Mean by Land Formalization? -- What Do We Know About How Formalization of Tenure Relates to Tenure Security? -- Historical Approaches to Formalization in Latin America -- State-Led Land Reform and Its Unrealized Promise in Latin America: Example of Ecuador -- Evolving Generations of Land Reform and Formalization in Africa.

Land Reform and Formalization in the Era of Decentralization -- A New Wave of Land Formalization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America -- Converging Drivers of Formalization and New Approaches -- Formalization for Community Empowerment or Dispossession? -- Formalization for Conservation and Climate Mitigation -- Seeking Formal Recognition as a Form of Resistance to Land and Resource Development -- Formalization as Legal Recognition of the Rights of Nature -- Aligning Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Strengthening Tenure Security -- References -- 12: Securing Communal Tenure Complemented by Collaborative Platforms for Improved Participatory Landscape Management and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Northern Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya -- The Relationships between Tenure, Sustainable Development, and Conservation -- The Mara-Serengeti-Tarangire Ecosystem Chain: Two Case Studies across One Border -- The Last Vestige of the Hadzabe: Tanzania's Last Hunter-Gatherers -- Conversion to Agriculture and Land Grabs: The Loss of Hadzabe Lands and Resources -- Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy: Retrofitting Communality to the Village Acts -- Fragmenting the Manyatta: How Privatization and the Subdivision of Lands Blocked Collective Action on the Mara -- Collaborative Civil Society: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association Busting down a Siloed Landscape and Breaking Tragedy of the Commons Mythology -- Conclusions and Recommendations: Communal Tenure, Collaborative Platforms, Conservation Incentives, and Explicit Management Agreements -- References -- 13: Beyond the Traditional: Voluntary Market-Based Initiatives to Promote Land Tenure Security -- The Causes of Forest Land Tenure Insecurities in Developing Countries -- FSC Certification as a Way to Address Forest Land Tenure Insecurity and Promote Forest Conservation.

Is FSC the Panacea? -- NGOs to the Rescue? -- Ways Forward: The Role of Hybrid Partnerships -- References -- 14: Methods to Advance Understanding of Tenure Security: Impact Evaluation for Rigorous Evidence on Tenure Interventions -- Identifying the Causal Impacts of Tenure Security Interventions -- Articulating a Theory of Change -- Collecting Data -- Impact Evaluation: Key Concepts -- Impact Evaluation: Key Strategies -- Advancing Our Understanding of Tenure Security -- References -- 15: Emerging Research Needs and Policy Priorities for Advancing Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development -- Significant Advances But Gaps Remain -- An Urgent Need to Expand the Breadth and Depth of Studies on LTS Impacts -- Testing New Policies to Accelerate Secure Tenure Across the World -- Moving Forward, Quickly -- References -- Index.