Nicholas joined the Land Portal in September 2016 as a Research Analyst. Previously, he worked at the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington D.C. At WRI, he assessed the land tenure security of indigenous and community lands for LandMark, a global platform of community lands. He also examined and wrote about expropriation laws and practices as well as environmental regulatory frameworks for WRI's The Access Initiative. In 2012-2013, Nicholas worked for the Law Reform Commission of Liberia in Monrovia and Oxfam India in New Delhi, where he conducted legal research related to land tenure, local governance, and other issues. He has a B.A.in Economics and Political Studies from Pitzer College and Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Currently, he is pursuing at PhD at the University of Groningen Faculty of Law. His dissertation will focus on whether national expropriation, compensation, and resettlement laws in developing countries are adopting international standards designed to secure tenure rights and ensure responsible land governance.
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Sustainable Development Goals: The Global Indicator Framework
•Indicator Framework Mandate
•Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs)
•The Global Indicator Framework
•Follow-up and reviews of the global indicators
•Relationship between global, regional and national indicators
•Data custodian agencies
•IAEG-SDG work programme for 2017
•IAEG-SDG reference materials
Rethinking Expropriation Law: Compensation for Expropriation
The Groningen Centre for Law and Governance (GCLG) and the University of Cape Town collaborated with the Global Land Tool Network and True Price to convene the fourth annual colloquium on Expropriation Law in Cape Town. The annual meetings of this project concentrate on narrowly defined aspects of expropriation, and facilitate discussion amongst international academics and other experts on shared issues in Expropriation Law. The project gives delegates the opportunity to participate on the global platform, alongside leading scholars in the field of expropriation law.
Laos Decree on Compensation and Resettlement Management in Development Projects
This Decree provides principles, regulations and standards on the management, monitoring of compensation of losses and the management of resettlement activities in order to properly and effectively implement development projects with the aims to ensure that the affected people are compensated, resettled and are assisted with permanent livelihood alternatives leading to improving of living conditions to be better off or to be at the same level as they were before as well as to ensure that the projects can contribute to the socio-economic development of the nation in sustainable manners.
The Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law
This Law shall be called the Vacant, Fallow, Virgin Lands Management Law.
Climate Change, Property Rights, & Resource Governance
The Second Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) and other scientific bodies present the case that climate change profoundly shapes ecological, social, and economic interactions. As the specter of global climate change unfolds, existing struggles will deepen over use, control, and management of land and other natural resources. In unpredictable ways, climate change will provoke adjustments in the value of land and other natural resources; simultaneously, climate change will intensify human migration and displacement.
Land Tenure and Rights for Improved Land Management and Sustainable Development
This working paper was commissioned by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in order to explore how land tenure systems in different ecosystems and bio-cultural regions around the world are linked to land degradation or sustainable land management. It is against this backdrop that five major issues surrounding land tenure, and rights for improved land management and sustainable development, are addressed; these are:
• Problems associated with land ownership (titling, tenure and customary rights);
Presidential Decree of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Concerning Modification of a Series of Articles of the Land Expropriation Law
NO: (7)
Date: 14/01/1384 (03/04/2005)
Article 1:
Sections (1&3) of article (3) and articles (12, 13, 16, 17, 20 and 22) shall be amended as follow:
1- Under section (1) of article 3 the expression ‘railway’ shall be added after the expression ‘highways’, and the text (and schools, implementation of urban plans) shall be added after the expression (seminaries or religious schools), and under section (3) of article 3 the expression (and legal) shall be added following the expression (canonical).
Decree #83 of President of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan on [immovable] Property (land)
Issue: 83
Date: 18/8/1382
In order for the executions of the state to be uniform and integrated regarding [immovable] property across the country, and to solve the problems [faced by] people and the state in this regard, I approve the following:
Law on Managing of Land Affairs
Article One:
This law is enacted the provisions of paragraph two article nine of constitution of Afghanistan in order to regulate the affairs of the land.
Objective
Article Two:
Objectives of the law have included:
Land Management Law of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Article 1. Legal Basis
The present law has been enacted in accordance with the requirements of the clause 2 article 9 the Constitution of Afghanistan to ensure land management.
Article 2. Objectives