Innovations for Land Management, Governance, and Land Rights for Sustainable Urban Transitions : The Middle Eastern Perspectives

The transformation of the built environment during the last few decades has placed enormous demands for land on the built environment. About 7.7 billion people now live on the planet, and that number is expected to increase by 2.5-3.0 billion in just 30 years, with the highest growth projected to be in less developed regions (H. De Soto, Foreword 2021). This increase should occupy a habitable land of 15 million hectares to accommodate around 500 million housing units with an average density of 200 persons per hectare. Although the rate of natural increase is slowing down, migration to cities is already at a higher rate than the natural population growth (Zimmermann 2021). It is projected that the number of people living in metropolises will increase to 3.47 billion by 2035, representing 39% of the global population and 62.5% of the world's urban population. Based on these data, almost 1 billion people will become metropolitan inhabitants in the next fifteen years (UNHABITAT, Population Data booklet 2020). The populations of urban areas in the Global South are projected to increase by 1.2 billion by 2050, placing an enormous pressure on governments and the international community to provide the needed land to accommodate this population growth. This means that the potential of all recently natural resources of land need to be realized in full to make progress in enabling more people to shelter themselves. This is bound to subsequently transform cities –yielding several challenges, such as whether cities can finance or meet basic provision of services and habitable land for millions of new citizens.

• | Author: Ahmed M. Soliman, Ramin Keivani
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Jul 28, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031596706
• | ISBN-13: 9783031596704