Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning as a Tool for Improving Quality of Life: The Perspective of Sub-Saharan Africa

Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene

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“…However, we think that urban planning has not necessarily lost focus, rather it has failed to explicitly leverage the role of land tenure security in urban planning to unleash the full health benefits. While the urban planning and health nexus articulated in literature cannot be underestimated [13], we argue that underlying planning is land tenure which, when combined with planning, leads to improvement in livelihoods [39], quality of life [40] and health. Therefore, focusing on urban planning as a solution to urban health conditions without tenure is a recipe for gentrification [41], which in itself has implications on health [42][43][44].…”

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Land Tenure Security and Health Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating the Connections between Land Tenure Security and Health

Dachaga¹,

Vries²

2021

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The rise of urban populations has rendered cities in both developed and developing countries vulnerable to poor health and diseases that are associated with urban living conditions and environments. Therefore, there is a growing consensus that while personal factors are critical in determining health, the urban environment exacerbates or mitigates health outcomes, and as such the solution for improving health outcomes in urban settings can be found in addressing socio-environmental factors that shape urban environments. Land tenure security is a social environmental factor of health that has been understudied by urban geographers despite its obvious role in shaping urban environments, housing conditions, and health. We interpret literature and infer possible pathways through which land tenure security connects to health and propose a land tenure security and health nexus conceptual framework for modeling and investigating the extent of this connection. Based on a narrative review of literature, this inter-disciplinary paper shows that land tenure security can influence health outcomes via four pathways—infrastructure access, environmental justice, psycho-ontological security, and social cohesion. Going forward, a subsequent investigation can focus on developing an index of land tenure security health insults, based on which an empirical investigation of the relationship between land tenure security and health disease is possible.

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Land Tenure Security and Health Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating the Connections between Land Tenure Security and Health

Dachaga¹,

Vries²

2021

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“…Second, it identified an essential gap in land tenure security and health nexus and filled that gap. This gap has been neglected in previous research within the land management discipline [ 6 , 109 ]. Third, it conceptualised an evaluative framework for measuring land tenure security and health.…”

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“…A broad body of scholarship shows that ensuring land tenure security by establishing rights and effectively enforcing and adjudicating those rights commonly has positive impacts on livelihoods and living conditions, by reducing landholders’ uncertainty and supporting investment in development [ 6 , 7 , 30 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 ]. Thus, access to secure land is a precondition for securing basic living conditions, livelihood opportunities, and a means to poverty reduction.…”

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“…Providing land tenure security is a well-known and widely applied strategy of development agencies to improve livelihood, well-being, and quality of life [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Land tenure security and land use policies can influence population health by supporting or stymieing opportunities for employment, housing security, political participation, education, protection from environmental risks, access to primary health care, and a host of other social and physical determinants of well-being [ 14 ].…”

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Integrating Urban Land Tenure Security in Health Determinants: The Design of Indicators for Measuring Land Tenure Security and Health Relationships in Developing Country Contexts

Dachaga

Vries

2022

IJERPH

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Both urban land tenure insecurity and poor urban health outcomes are research topics of urban geographers and health experts. However, health outcomes or patterns are hardly measured in relation to land tenure security. There are no clear measures or indicators of if and how these two issues interrelate and which type of land tenure deficiency is likely to lead to which kind of health outcomes or patterns. To address this knowledge quandary, we reviewed literature to identify which characteristics of land tenure could relate to which types of health outcomes. The review found four specific land tenure security pathways which significantly influence health outcomes. For each of these, it is possible to identify a set of indicators which could measure the extent of interrelation between land tenure security and health. The result of this process is the design of a list of 46 land tenure-enabled indicators that can be applied empirically. The indicators demonstrate how to design a transdisciplinary approach that connects land management and global urban health knowledge spaces.

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“…Examples of definitions of QOL are given by Post [45] and Murgaš [25]. Some authors [46,47], identify QOL with wellbeing. Skevington, Boehnke [48] reject this with the following: "QOL and subjective wellbeing are not interchangeable terms".…”

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Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Quality of Life

Petrovič

Maturkanič

2022

Sustainability

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This paper is focused on the urban-rural dichotomy as one of the dichotomies of quality of life (QOL). The first objective is to find out whether the quality of urban life, or the quality of rural life, is higher in Czechia. The hypothesis assumes that the quality of urban life is higher. The second objective is to identify predictors of QOL and compare values for the residents of cities and villages. In the Theoretical Background section, we discuss cities and urban life, plus villages and rural life. In the QOL section, we explore the quality of urban and rural life in Czechia, and give examples of QOL measurements in Czech municipalities. In the Measurement and Findings section we measure QOL with a subjective indicator on the Cantril scale, and derive findings from these measurements. The correlations between QOL and other variables yield very strong predictors of both urban and rural quality of life. The measurements also yielded two “by products”: The first was the finding that women’s measured values are, except for women’s quality of city life, higher than the measured values of men. The second was the finding that the combination of quality of place and quality of the environment, which we named ‘geographical matter’, was rated higher by the respondents than the combination of QOL and happiness, which we named ‘psychological matter’.

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Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning as a Tool for Improving Quality of Life: The Perspective of Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Land Tenure Security and Health Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating the Connections between Land Tenure Security and Health

Land Tenure Security and Health Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Navigating the Connections between Land Tenure Security and Health

Integrating Urban Land Tenure Security in Health Determinants: The Design of Indicators for Measuring Land Tenure Security and Health Relationships in Developing Country Contexts

Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Quality of Life

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