Land and Access Rights in Kenya's Water-Front at the Coast.
This paper is concerned with two issues only. Firstly, it sets out to examine the structure of land ownership along Kenya's coastal waterfront; and in particular to identify as precisely as possible what social classes or groups own what interest in what land in this area. Secondly it attempts an assessment of the nature and extent of public access rights along the water-front in the light of the existing ownership structure. The interrelationship between these two issues and their relevance to the theme of this Workshop is not difficult to see. In political economies anchored on the primacy of private property: a category to which Kenya's system rightly belongs, the fact of ownership by individuals par se confers a wide measure of control over the utilisation of land and that of the resources above, subjacent and contiguous to it. This means that public access to any of these resources, if it exists at all, must be founded on some overriding principles such as public policy or necessity. In the context of coastal and off-shore resources this often turns on a careful balance between state interest in riparian land and other resources, and the property rights of individual or corporate owners. It is these and analogous problems which we shall attempt to grapple with.
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| Format: | Book Section biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies
1978
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| Subjects: | Public access, Property rights, Riparian zone, Coastal zone management, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/7377 |
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