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# Land Tenure Security for Urban Poor in India: A Systems Thinking Approach

## Details

**Authors** Kumar A

**Year** 2016

**Publisher** Cornell Policy Review

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Public Policy

**Kind of engagement** applications

[Read it](https://www.cornellpolicyreview.com/land-tenure-security-for-urban-poor-in-india-a-systems-thinking-approach/)

## In authors' words

### Abstract

Planning and policy-making are complex processes because there are multiple stakeholders and actors involved. These processes vary depending on the amounts of time and space involved, and are intricately entwined with the polity, politics, administration, and legislature of a nation state. These complexities often impede the identification of actual underpinnings and causations of the problems, and thus, the effective evolution of solutions. Systems thinking helps us establish the simplicity underlying the complex phenomena through identification of ideas, relationships, consideration of multiple perspectives, and construction of systems and sub-systems using the DSRP rules (D-distinction, S- system, R- relationship, and P-perspectives). Systems thinking is thus an extremely useful tool for policy makers because it helps them dig deep into a problem while relating it to a larger context.

### What they set out to do (purpose)

A Cornell Policy Review piece bringing the DSRP rules to land tenure security for the urban poor in India.

### What they found (results)

Policy-making complexity — many stakeholders, entwined polity, politics, administration, and legislature — hides a problem's real underpinnings; systems thinking establishes the simplicity underlying the complexity and relates the problem to its larger context.

## Commentary

### In short

A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**How to cite this** Kumar A (2016). Land Tenure Security for Urban Poor in India: A Systems Thinking Approach. Cornell Policy Review.