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Building On Custom: Land Tenure Policy And Economic Development In Ghana, Joseph Blocher
Building On Custom: Land Tenure Policy And Economic Development In Ghana, Joseph Blocher
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This Note addresses the intersection of customary and statutory land law in the land tenure policy of Ghana. It argues that improving the current land tenure policy demands integration of customary land law and customary authorities into the statutory system. After describing why and how customary property practices are central to the economic viability of any property system, the Note gives a brief overview of Ghana’s customary and statutory land law. The Note concludes with specific policy suggestions about how Ghana could better draw on the strength of its customary land sector.
City As An Ecological Space: Social Capital And Urban Land Use, The , Sheila R. Foster
City As An Ecological Space: Social Capital And Urban Land Use, The , Sheila R. Foster
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One of the goals of land use (and pollution control) law is to force the internalization of these costs. This otherwise economic view of land use law is also rooted, however, in an ecological understanding of urban land use. Legal scholars writing over three decades ago successfully argued, based upon the ecological facts of life, that "[p]roperty does not exist in isolation" because the effects of its uses flow outside of the boundaries of ownership. The notion that property is inextricably part of a network of social and economic relationships, and that its impacts traverse legally defined boundaries and relationships, …