Terra : urban land reform in post-war Angola : research, advocacy and policy development / by Development Workshop and the Centre for Environment & Human Settlements with support from One World Action & DFID.

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Publication:

Luanda, Angola : Development Workshop, 2005.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Development Workshop occasional paper ; n. 5

Notes:
Publication based on a research programme undertaken by Development Workshop (DW), an Angolan-based non-governmental organisation, and the Centre for Environment and Human Settlements (CEHS), a UK-based university research centre. The programme was implemented with the assistance of One World Action (OWA), a UK-based international non-governmental organization, and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), under its Angola Programme.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185).
Preface -- Introduction -- Executive summary -- Background -- Global urbanisation trends -- International experience in urban land management -- The post-war urban land challenge in Angola -- The evolution of peri-urban areas in Angola until the end of the war -- Informal settlement patterns and urban poverty -- Informal land processes, migration and poverty -- Institutional aspects of urban land management -- Institutional attitudes to urban land processes -- Land policy and land legislation -- Action research as an advocacy tool to influence Angola's land policies -- Proposed future strategies.

ISBN:

0968878652
9780968878651

Subject:

Postwar reconstruction Angola.
Land settlement Angola.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre Angola.
Colonisation intérieure Angola.
Economic history
Land settlement
Postwar reconstruction
Social conditions
Urbanização Angola.
Angola Economic conditions 1975-
Angola Social conditions.
Angola Conditions économiques 1975-
Angola

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Development Workshop (Firm : Luanda, Angola), editor.
Heriot-Watt University Centre for Environment and Human Settlements, editor.
One World Action.
Great Britain. Department for International Development.
Occasional paper (Development Workshop (Firm : Luanda, Angola)) ; 5.

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