Plot acquisition for self-build housing
Abstract The process of plot acquisition, development and construction of house is very complex in the private unserviced land market due to lack of information, high dependence on land brokers and inadequate institutional arrangements for land development and plot sales. The case of Bhubaneswar City in Eastern India is used to highlight the issues connected with plot acquisition and house building and to explain the factors required to be strengthened in the overall context of planned development. Specifically the pattern of ownership, process of land subdivision, transaction, transfer, development and final use for house construction are looked at. The study suggests curbing land prices, and intensifying infrastructure and service facilities, and indicates the need for the revision of the existing planning regulations to streamline the control mechanism.
Administration of farmland transfer in urban fringes: Lessons from Maharashtra, India
This article examines the growing concern for urban fringe land management in the light of the legal framework and the procedure for land transfer. Rapid increases in the population have led to the growth of cities. As the lands around the city increase in importance, and as the public authorities in most of the growing cities of the developing world have been unsuccessful in supplying land for housing for lower income groups, the smaller lots outside the legal framework are gaining importance in the city land markets. As a result, large-scale transfers of lands in the fringe areas are affected. In anticipation of future profits, land developers have engaged in malpractice, including the outwitting of legislative provisions, bribing of local officials and cheating landowners. Such land transactions undoubtedly exploit landowners and defeat the objectives of the legislation meant to safeguard the interests of the ordinary citizens. This article looks at the fraudulent nature of such land transactions, along with the modus operandi of land dealers in the light of the current legal framework. In order for it to be effective, it has to check unscrupulous speculation so that the middle and lower income groups cannot be excluded from the land market.
Implementation of Tourism Satellite Account: Assessing the Contribution of Tourism to the Croatian Economy
Compiling the indicators of tourism consumption and the output of tourism industries, Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) provides a framework for internationally harmonized measurements of direct macroeconomic contribution of tourism. Ivandic and Marusic provide a detailed methodological approach for the transfer of TSA theoretical concepts to the assessment of tourism economic contribution on the case of the Croatia. Giving that the TSA compilation is still characterized by a surprisingly wide range of ‘styles’ used, the chapter contributes to a better understanding of the issues related to measurement of direct tourism impacts. It also gives a set of baseline criteria for resource allocation within tourism policy and the further evaluation of its effectiveness.