ABSTRACT
This chapter explores international experiences of evolution and formalization of social land tenures as a background to Australia’s deconstruction of communal indigenous tenure. It draws on global experiences in land projects designed to deliver secure landholding over 50 years, highlighting a new multidisciplinary and pragmatic approach in land administration theory and practice. The place of social tenures in the world is explained through efforts to include them in international land projects and to manage land for the benefit of the poor.
