Sustainable land use: policy implications of systematic land regularization in Mozambique

Carrilho, João; Dgedge, Gustavo; Santos, Pedro Pinto; Trindade, Jorge

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Sustainable land use: policy implications of systematic land regularization in Mozambique

2024-03Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Carrilho, João
dc.contributor.author	Dgedge, Gustavo
dc.contributor.author	Santos, Pedro Pinto
dc.contributor.author	Trindade, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-19T15:19:13Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-19T15:19:13Z
dc.date.issued	2024-03
dc.date.updated	2024-11-18T18:18:14Z
dc.description.abstract	Security of land tenure is key to achieve the sustainable development goal of eradicating poverty and can be improved through the regularization of rights to land, property, and natural resources. Making cities and human settlements sustainable, requires participatory and integrated land use planning, accounting for the land’s po tential and constraints, with a view to medium and long-term use. The government of Mozambique is actively promoting a process of massive regularization, under common terms of reference for service providers. The terms of reference also intend to achieve a linkage between regularization and community land use plans. The aim of this research is to assess the robustness of such plans to detect and overcome potential conflicts between the given and the potential land use, as well as constraints, weaknesses and threats. This research uses a mixed documental analysis to undertake an ex-ante assessment of 15 participatory community land use plans. Five categories are assumed as a reference of good practices in land use planning suggested by universal and African literature. It was found that the common terms of reference and guidelines promote participatory capacity and provides general directions of community development. However, good practices of land use planning such as effective participation in all phases, alternative scenarios for future land use, regional integration, and disasters risk management are less promoted. It is suggested that the guidelines go beyond the immediate needs of land register, to consider that such interventions in rural areas shape the culture of land use, which, in turn, will influence sustainability in higher level settlements.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.107046	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	0264-8377
dc.identifier.slug	cv-prod-3575509
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/16809
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Elsevier	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Sustainability	pt_PT
dc.subject	Land use plan	pt_PT
dc.subject	Rural-urban transition	pt_PT
dc.subject	Community delimitation	pt_PT
dc.subject	Land tenure regularization	pt_PT
dc.subject	Fit for purpose	pt_PT
dc.title	Sustainable land use: policy implications of systematic land regularization in Mozambique	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.title	Land Use Policy	pt_PT
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