Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reforming Land Law to Achieve Development Goals -- 1.1 The Potential of Land Law -- 1.2 The Pressing Need for Reform -- 1.3 New Development Goals -- Chapter 2 Reform of Land Law in the Context of World Bank Lending -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Land Law and the Bank's Objectives -- 2.3 General Guidance on Land Policy and Law Reform -- 2.4 Legal Guidance: The Operational Policies -- 2.5 Policy and Law Reform Outside the Project Context -- 2.6 Covenants and Conditions as Contractual Tools -- 2.7 Reform in the Context of Development Policy Lending -- 2.8 Reform in the Investment Project Context -- 2.9 Land Administration Projects -- 2.10 Land Reform -- 2.11 Natural Resource Management -- 2.12 Process and Style in Land Law Reform -- 2.13 New Frontiers: Into the Land Market -- 2.14 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Overcoming Gender Biases in Established and Transitional Property Rights Systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Creating New Rights to Land -- 3.3 Creating Secure Rights through Titling Projects -- 3.4 Markets -- 3.5 Household Allocation of Land -- 3.6 Women's Knowledge of and Ability to Enforce Land Rights -- 3.7 Conclusion and Recommendations -- Chapter 4 A Framework for Land Market Law with the Poor in Mind -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Impact of the Land Market on the Rural Poor -- 4.3 A Framework for Land Market Law with the Poor in Mind -- 4.4 Bringing Customary and Informal Practices into the Legal System -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Can Land Titling and Registration Reduce Poverty? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Titling and Registration Programs -- 5.3 Titling and Registration and Economic Growth -- 5.4 Titling and Registration and Poverty Alleviation -- 5.5 Conclusions and Recommendations.

Chapter 6 Property Rights and Environmentally Sound Management of Farmland and Forests -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Framing the Issues -- 6.3 Property Rights: The Importance of Enforceability -- 6.4 Policies, Legal Tools, and Environmental Impacts -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Table 3.1 Attitudes Toward Female Ownership of Land -- Table 6.1 Control Right Assertion and Resource Use -- Table 6.2 International Instruments Related to Land and Resource Use and the Environment -- Table 6.3 Resource Management Options and Environmental Externalities -- Box 4.1 Legal Aid in Action: Vladimir Province, Russia -- Box 4.2 Legal Aid in Action: The Kyrgyz Republic -- Box 4.3 Land Transfers by Custom in Uganda -- Box 6.1 Negative Environmental Impacts Associated with Farming and Forestry -- Box 6.2 Water Use Regulation and Land Conservation -- Box 6.3 Environmental Stewardship-a Relative Concept.