Land-use planning in the Moluccas

Download or read book Land-use planning in the Moluccas written by Louis Durey and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments use spatial planning as a public policy tool, in a “statutory system for regulating development and the use of land” (Jay 2010, 494). In practice, a spatial plan serves as a reference for development planning and infrastructure policy and for planning land uses. The value of spatial planning is that it enables governments to record the different land uses in an area, such as forest, industry or agriculture. Although much research has examined planning in developed countries, the connection between spatial planning and customary land tenure in developing countries is an emerging empirical field that merits greater research attention in development studies.