GGRC25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Land Tenure, Social Capital
25 Oct 2016
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Meanings of land: territory with which a particular people identify, landscape valued for its natural resources (factor of production) Property as a benefit (or income) stream; property right is a claim to benefit stream (sharing due to property right) Property regimes: state, private,, common, open access (non-property) Rights over land: use; transfer; administration ( you can use it, but no damage it (water fountain incident)) Loss of land: colonial dispossession, through development projects. Land reform: changing of land laws to result in redistribution of private or public lands. Government deciding how land is distributed because they want the city to develop. Of the three legs of land reform, tenure reform appears to be the bottle line. Because when you do land distribution, someone has to hold new rights in the end. When you do redistribution you have to change tenure. You have to have a way for people to hold the land.
