Land acquisition in Ghana is fraught with challenges of multiple sales, numerous unofficial charges, unnecessary bureaucracies, intrusion unqualified middlemen, and lack transparency among others. Studies have suggested digitization as a way forward to improve Ghana’s land management system address these challenges. However, none studies specifically provided clear conceptual digital framework for acquisition. Most contemporary literature globally appraise blockchain technology potential...

Ecological Security Patterns (ESPs) are important nature-based solutions for ecological problems caused by urbanization and industrialization. Previous studies on ESPs focus natural conditions only, yet do not incorporate the need social equity. This study aims to address this quandary area of Wuhan identifying extracting sources corridors, followed an sensitivity assessment, minimum cumulative resistance model buffer analysis, in order construct optimize security patterns. The optimization...

The active participation of stakeholders is a crucial requirement for effective land-use planning (LUP). Involving in LUP way redistributing the decision-making power and ensuring social justice land-management interventions. However, owing to growing intricacy sociopolitical economic relations increasing number competing claims on land, choice dynamic land use has become more complex, need find balances between social, economic, environmental interests less urgent. These facts reflect...

Theoretically, both land fragmentation and consolidation (defragmentation) approaches are considered as tools of management. However, although a large literature about the relationships among fragmentation, consolidation, agriculture production crops diversification concepts exists, less is known linkages conditions determining decisions adoption these in given area. This poses major dilemmatic challenge to policy makers whether devise policies favour conservation or defragmentation....

Existing studies on blockchain within land administration have focused mainly replacing or complementing the technology for registration and titling. This study explores potential of using to enhance transparency all processes an integrative review methodology coupled with a framework analysis. draws Ghanaian perspective make this insightful. It appears possible apply permissionless public across processes. integrates departments, processes, stakeholders openness, improve availability...

The presence of land use conflicts is often unavoidable as finite and a scarce resource. With development prime goal, the increasing demands for specific uses make situation more serious than it was before. In context uses, suitability determines inherent capacity to perform defined with optimum efficiency sustainability. However, single analysis could not answer overall objective allocation. Thus, this study considers primary general valuable evaluation criteria necessary simultaneous...

Farmland fragmentation and farmland consolidation are two sides of the same coin paradoxically viewed as management tools. While there is a vast body literature addressing connections between on one hand agriculture production crops diversification other hand, their relationship with variations in food security still under-explored. This challenges policy makers about whether how to devise policies favor conservation or defragmentation. Therefore, drawing multiple secondary data deductive...

Purpose This study aims to understand and explain factors that influence how, when under which conditions local governments adopt digital technologies for citizen collaboration. It discusses what these findings mean city twin adoption. Design/methodology/approach research uses the systematic literature review following Preferred Reporting Items Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) process collect evaluate evidence needed answer questions. technology–organisation–environment (TOE)...

Abstract This study delves into the pivotal role that indicators play in designing, assessing, and guiding policies for sustainable urban development. Indicators, encompassing both quantitative qualitative measures, serve as essential tools evaluating efforts toward development, providing a practical objective means of understanding complex environment. The lack robust database is identified hindrance to monitoring development progress, underscoring importance comprehensive indicators....

There is tenure insecurity around land ownerships and rights in most developing countries. are also many land-use planning projects being implemented these Often, exists countries but not formally linked with security. This study argues that combining them by conducting a way promotes security presents new approach. A central premise for the rationale of this intervention processes may inadvertently increase By methodology, it evaluates case studies from Africa, Asia South America. It uses...

Land use consolidation aims to address food insecurity challenges in Rwanda. However, there is contradictory evidence on whether this tool has met security objectives or not. This study addresses two questions: How the land improved (or not improved) at local level? can be addressed using a renewed approach that adopts tenure responsive planning procedure? We investigate these questions Nyange Sector (in Musanze District) of Rwanda mixed research methods. The generates theoretical and policy...

There exist various indicators that measure land tenure security for urbanites. Most of those the degree to which titling promotes tenure. Based on reviewed literature, it is admitted not a panacea security. Measuring should rely only legalisation landownership. This paper makes meta-analysis and conceptual modelling connect spatial justice It discusses potential inclusive urban development grounded claim enhances A comprehensive framework can from lens thereafter derived. The were coupled...

Background: The urban-rural land divide is visible through where people choose to work. This article aims detect how, and why use rural coworking spaces instead of or in addition working urban areas. Methods: research relied on both documented evidence a structured survey among users spaces. Results: We found that the choice draws certain benefits opportunities for its users, such as avoiding social isolation, separating private professional life, reducing commuting. An additional benefit...

Background: The place of work is, besides the residence, a main travel destination in course day for working people, who make up majority western European societies. Other daily destinations, such as those childcare, social activities, and buying groceries, are spatially related to both these. This article aims detect if how character neighbourhood associated land use is location coworking spaces. Specifically, we investigate spatial relation between spaces (CWSs) peripheral non-peripheral...

The key question in this article is the extent to which current real property expropriation practices Kigali city promote spatial justice. Current studies focus on ambiguous manner valuation had been regulated by law of 2007, leading unfair compensation and various conflicts between expropriating agencies expropriated people. Following its amendment 2015, currently provides clearer procedures for fair compensation, based market prices. Using indicators that measure justice, study evaluates...

The government of Rwanda recently passed housing development regulations and funding schemes which aim at promoting access to affordable houses for the low- middle-income Kigali city inhabitants. existing studies on affordability in this did not yet discuss whether government-supported programme is likely promote these target beneficiaries. This study applies price-to-income ratio (PIR) approach 30-percent household income standard through bank loan assess units developed framework are,...

Rural development research integrates numerous theoretical and empirical studies has evolved over the past few decades. However, systematic literature reviews have explored changing landscape. This study aims to obtain an overview of rural by applying a bibliometric visual analysis. In this paper, we introduce four computer-based software tools, including HistCite™, CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Map Alluvial Generator, help with data collection, analysis, visualization. The dataset consists 6968...

The need to understand the connection between land and energy has gained prominence in calls opt for renewable as part of climate change mitigation actions. This derives from fact that resources are site-specific require rightful access use land. impacts on landscape, tenure, land-use patterns constructing facilities significant, they may subsequently undermine authority local communities. Still, is not yet integrated development policies political debates when deciding projects. Therefore,...