Land Participation Research Articles

Excessive Waterlogging Prevention at Urban Built up Area based on Land and Water Conservation Model

Water resources management needs to consider the biophysical characteristics of the area. The majority of Kupang City's geological features are dominated by porous karst rock structures. Unfortunately, during the rainy season, some parts of the areas frequently experience floods. Additionally, the future risk of drought is amplified by uncontrolled deep groundwater extraction, which is aggravated by imbalanced groundwater recharge. On the other hand, visual observation results show that in the rainy season rainwater surface runoff immediately flow off to the downstream areas through open land use and mostly via street body and/or roadside canals nearby. This study aims to increase urban planner and community participation in land and water conservation measures by optimizing the plot of land for their socio-economic activities. The proposed land and water conservation model is based on previous research's results i.e., that the high infiltration rate in Kupang City is an opportunity for deep groundwater recharge, and the provision of minimum open land is needed to absorb and plant productive vegetation. This study is important because the Indonesian government has not been producing the land or water conservation standard in urban built-up areas, so does the model of sustainable drainage infrastructure in urban built-up areas. Similar situation may also occur in other developing countries. Thus, appropriate land and water conservation efforts are strongly needed, institutionally and systematically. Keywords: Built up area, land and water conservation, infiltration and percolation rate, sustainable drainage system; zero run-off conceptS

How to increase landowners’ participation in land consolidation: Evidence from North Macedonia

Land consolidation is a well-proven land management instrument traditionally used for farm restructuring. A land consolidation project’s success depends to a large extent on the interest and willingness of landowners and communities to participate in the project. Here, local governments and responsible agencies can contribute to the higher motivation of landowners if the factors influencing the landowners' readiness to participate are known and appropriately addressed. Building on qualitative and quantitative data collected from landowners’ interviews in 10 municipalities in North Macedonia during 2019, this article provides insights into the individual factors influencing landowners’ readiness to participate in land consolidation and behavioural factors at both individual and social level determining negative attitude towards land consolidation. The article further identifies possible incentives, techniques, and nudges to increase landowners’ participation in land consolidation.Low economic interest, adversarial and non-cooperative attitude, lack of trust in institutions, fear of manipulation, and the belief that the process will be unjust, are the top subjective reasons landowners are not interested in participating in land consolidation. The regression analysis results revealed that the age of a landowner, plans to pass land to children, the sufficiency of information and the number of parcels forming a holding have a statistically significant relationship with the readiness to participate in land consolidation.

Social governance for value creation: state-led land assembly, the property mind, and speculative urbanism in Taiwan

ABSTRACT Focusing on Taiwan's state-led, compulsory land assembly scheme (called Zonal Expropriation), we examine how the increasingly entrepreneurial state has deployed it to create land value while socially governing challenges to speculative urbanism. We argue that any development schemes that claim a priori creation of value must in fact socially construct that value in practice. Building on a case study called Central North, we show that zonal expropriation works to actively cultivate a calculating property mind(set) among affected landowners to institutionally entice participation in land taking. The article generates three important conclusions: (1) value creation is predicated on the state's taking and planning powers but not on market mechanisms alone, (2) state-led land assembly schemes, such as Central North, lock the city's urban economy in the real estate market's logic and trajectory, (3) land value creation and social governance of land conflicts have become more co-constitutive and should be relationally examined.

PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT DALAM PEMBAYARAN PAJAK BUMI DAN BANGUNAN (Studi Di Desa Pungguk Pedaro Kec. Bingin Kuning Kab. Lebong)

The success of a country is a society that is willing to participate in paying land and building taxes and that is one of the supporting factors, the awareness and sense of participation that must be present in every community to support all development activities both at the regional and central level. if the community does not pay taxes then they will not be good Indonesian citizens. Therefore, the need for public participation. The formulation of the problem in this study is to find out how the action of community participation in the payment of Land and Building Tax (PBB) in Pungguk Pedaro Village, Bingin Kuning District, Lebong Regency. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the level of community participation in land and building tax payers in Pungguk Pedaro Village, Bingin Kuning District, Lebong Regency. In this study, researchers used qualitative descriptive research motedo with data collection techniques through observation, interview and documentation techniques

“Empowerment” as efficiency and participation: gender in responsible agricultural investment principles

ABSTRACTAmidst global concern over the state of transnational large-scale agricultural investments, several efforts have been made to set global standards for “responsible agricultural investment.” While these efforts have received mixed reviews from the international community, very little attention has been paid to the gendered language of these principles. Through examining two separate sets of agricultural investment principles – one created by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Bank, and the other by the United Nations Committee on World Food Security – this article finds that, despite different processes and participants in the creation of these principles, they nonetheless share a language of “empowerment” targeted at women and marginalized groups. However, in contrast to early feminist discourses of empowerment, these principles instead perpetuate the notion that empowerment is to be found through efficiency, productivity and participation in land and labor markets. This article takes a critical look at this language of economic empowerment in each set of principles, and points to the dangers of equating efficiency, productivity and participation with feminist empowerment. By not acknowledging the broader gender dynamics of agricultural governance and markets, these discourses risk deepening existing inequalities rather than moving toward meaningful social change.

Post-reform Forestland Markets in China

Land markets developed rapidly in China after agricultural land tenure reforms, but not after forest reforms. We surveyed farmers in three provinces to examine the post-reform forestland markets and options to strengthen them. Using household choice experiments, we estimate land market demand and supply under alternative contractual arrangements. Our findings are consistent with the currently thin markets but also suggest that alternative institutional and contractual conditions could support broader participation in land markets. Strengthening property rights on forestland emerges as an especially effective possible policy instrument. We illustrate its predicted effects on equilibrium rental rates and market participation.

Equity and the hidden factor land: a hypothesis

PurposeThe paper seeks to develop a research hypothesis: although individual companies deviate, in an average observation equity seems to reflect the value of land, and profits appear to reflect the land rent‐earning capacity of the company's assets.Design/methodology/approachThis hypothesis is based on a broad interpretation of the almost forgotten production factor – land, as an exclusive real option. The article substantiates the connection between equity and key assets preliminarily by considering samples of balance sheets of Germany and the UK.FindingsThe land rent (in a wide sense) is hidden in many cases and diffusing on assets with similar features as land. Access to land (in a broad sense) and the foundation of the profits on rents appear to be an essential base for sustainable performance of companies.Originality/valueIf the hypothesis holds true, equity is nothing other than indirect participation in land (in a broad sense), with impacts on many concepts. For instance, investment policy of pension funds had to be revised, since old‐age provision in stocks would be an indirect investment in land – but an economy as a whole cannot build its savings on land. A consequent taxation on land and other natural resources could replace business taxation. Only a sound endowment with equity opens the access to land and similar assets, which is a challenge for small and medium sized companies.

Denationalization of urban physical development: The experiment in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China

In socialist China, where state ownership dominated, economic reform aimed at national modernization has called for the participation of varied nondashstate interest. Urban physical construction is not immune from this fundamental change, though it was traditionally a public domain in this country. Fast economic growth was increasingly handicapped by insufficient land development and inadequate infrastructure building. Nondashstate sectors were consequently recognized as indispensable forces in urban construction. However, the denationalization of urban physical development has been conducted with great caution as the inertia of the old system remains powerful. This paper will elaborate the experience of nondashstate participation in land and property development in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone during the 1980s, aiming to reveal, via case studies, how nondashstate interests have gradually been penetrating this high-risk and high-reward business, despite many expected and unexpected difficulties. Finally, their contribution to facilitating economic growth and their impact on the capture of inward investment is elaborated.

Citizen Participation in Land and Water Use Planning

During the last fifteen years many citizen actions and protests against planning issues have occurred. In most cases they have taken place late in the planning process, quite close to the realization of a plan. Forms of action have been used which quickly get publicity and engage new members through e.g. strikes, demonstrations and occupations. These methods are often unacceptable to the politicians in the planning process and confrontations are unavoidable. The purpose of this article is to discuss methods of how to identify and encourage citizen participation in physical planning. The pilot area for the research project is southwestern Skåne, mainly the Kävlinge river basin with the Vomb lake, a controversial area as regards land and water use.1