Tenure security, land registration and customary tenure in a peri-urban Accra community

Land Use Policy

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 358-365

  Barry, Michael ^a   Danso, Ephraim Kwame ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Customary land administration evolution; Land registration usefulness; Peri urban land conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901029228     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.01.017     Document Type: Article

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