IIED, the Sustainable Development Strategies Group (SDSG) and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) have created a collection of community development laws for the mining sector to encourage and facilitate better research and policy. The resource, with all community development laws available t
While the Land Portal prefers to avoid using a category such as "Other" in metadata - since it does not provide a user with much information - in the case of legislations and policies it has felt that it was unavoidable. This due to the many different of legislation or regulation-formats different countries identify. Because these types of regulations can be nonetheless very important with regards to land governance, these categories are nested under the "Other"-category in the Land Library resource type taxonomy.