Overlapping land claims and the case for transparency : lessons from Bolivia
Claire Debucquois & Kaitlin Cordes
The aim of our contribution is to link the call for increased transparency in land governance practices with the research that we are currently carrying on at the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School for the management of scarce, essential resources. We will anchor the theoretical framework in the practice by providing evidence-based examples to illustrate our points and identify concrete steps forward for what we name a triangulatedd management of essential natural resources, land in particular. Our paper is structured in three parts. The first section elaborates on the analytical framework of institutional capabilitiess and explains why transparency is imperative for achieving a normative triangulation in any regime governing land and other essential goods. The second draws upon fieldwork in Madagascar and identifies a number of transparencyrelated issues in land management, both at the local and global levels. The third part seeks to identify steps forward, based upon the practices previously highlighted and the normative horizon endorsed.
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