Land management and land governance : key instruments for sustainable urban and rural development
Magel, Holger
Powerpoint presentation.
Over the last few decades urban areas in the world are facing significant challenges. And this challenge is getting overwhelmed with high rate of urbanisation. The United Nations estimates that about 180,000 people are being added to the urban population every day. Mainly developing countries are shouldering this vast undesirable burden and are struggling to cope with the huge influx of people into urban areas. In developing countries one of the fundamental reasons of uncontrolled urbanisation is rural-urban migration which is often manifested in urban areas in terms of poverty, formation of informal settlements and unemployment. On the other hand, low agricultural productivity, natural disaster, lack of forward and backward linkage are the pull factors of rural-urban migration and main obstacles for rural community in many developing countries towards diversify and sustainable development. Moreover, urban areas have also strong influence on rural environment. The penetration of urbanindustrial economy into the countryside or urban sprawl to meet the growing spatial demand of urban areas is gradually increasing the exploitation of natural resources in rural society. These inter-sectoral problems actually provide a valid ground of the integration between urban and rural areas and falsify the traditional myth of urban and rural divide. Urban and rural areas have reciprocal link, and therefore, focus should be given not only on the development of particular sector, rather on the balance development of these realms which should be considered as an important element in tacking the growing problems both in rural and urban areas.
Event: International Land Management Symposium
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