Search for dissertations about: "peri-urbanization"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word peri-urbanization.

  2. 1. Peri-Urban Land Tenure in Ethiopia

    Author : Achamyeleh Gashu Adam; Peter Ekbäck; Erling Berge; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; formal; informal; land tenure; peri-urban; peri-urbanization; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

    Abstract : Urban areas in Ethiopia have been growing very quickly in recent decades, which haveled to ever increasing demand for land in peri-urban areas for housing and other nonagriculturalactivities. This has had several transformative impacts on the transitionalperi-urban, areas including engulfment of local communities and conversion of landrights and use from an agricultural to a built-up property rights system. READ MORE

  4. 2. Caught Between Spaces : Socio-Environmental Vulnerability in Formal and Informal Peri-Urban Bogotá and Soacha, Colombia

    Author : Sandra Valencia; LUCSUS; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; peri-urban area; urban-rural interface; socio-environmental change; wellbeing; vulnerability; Colombia; Bogotá; Soacha; informality; formalization; political ecology; stadsnära; periurbana områden; periurbanisering; Colombia; formalisering; informell bosättning;

    Abstract : The world is rapidly urbanizing. To contribute to the understanding of the socio-environmental changes brought about by urban sprawl and densification, this thesis examines wellbeing and vulnerability in low-income peri-urban areas in and around Bogotá, Colombia. READ MORE