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Formalization of land tenure and living environment in Hochiminh City, Vietnam since the economic renovation | |
Author | Pham Tran Hai |
Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-02-14 |
Subject(s) | Land tenure--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh |
Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science |
Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
Abstract | The significance of informality in land occupancy, use and ownership is observable in over the Third World and has drawn theoretical debate on how land tenure shapes living environment in an informal settlement. This has been called for global campaign on formalization of land tenure last several decades, which has experienced succeeds as well as failures in economic, socio-political and environmental aspects. In Hochiminh city (Vietnam) after the Economic Renovation in 1986, informal land - including illegal and un-official - is a large proportion, approximately two third, in the urban land stock and it considered to hinder the improvement of living environment. Surveys in three informal settlements in Hochiminh city in this study show that, motivation of occupants for investing in infrastructure-services and houses is depended on their perceived tenurial security or the optimism in a future of land legality, which is perceived from signals of the state response. When de facto tenure in the settlement exceeds certain level, called "optimism level", its perceived tenurial security is as high as that of de jure tenure. It is supported with informal occupants' advantages in negotiation with the state on land formality, being taking place in the contexts of (i) the fluidity of land management institutions during transition in favors of formalization and (ii) the porousness of the state and its infiltration by particularistic social interests. |
Year | 2003 |
Type | Thesis |
School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
Chairperson(s) | Sajor, Edsel E. |
Examination Committee(s) | Amin, A. T. M. Nurul ;Truong Quang |
Scholarship Donor(s) | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) |
Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |