Although its scale and social implications depend on the specific country or local situations, squatting is a global urban rural phenomenon associated with such humanitarian issues as justice, poverty environmental impact, well economic issues, rent seeking by certain groups. It can be sporadic massive. The state appears to deal former implementing legal rules latter policies. With regard gains...

Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles. In 1981, squatters occupied a piece of land in a poor suburban area of Buenos ...

Fog oasis conservationists in Lima attend to fog as a material possibility for capturing and enfolding infrastructures of reforestation. Yet, their efforts become deliberately obstructed by the informal squatters whom perceive threaten these ecosystems. capture thus raises questions not only about relation between infrastructure environment but also urban inequalities that must be addressed suc...