Lisa Ting

Land administration and cadastral trends: a framework for re-engineering

This is a pre-print of an article published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2001 published by Elsevier. This version is reproduced under the journals author licence agreement. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01989715

Cadastral Trends: A Synthesis

An understanding of the human history behind cadastral systems is essential to understanding the dynamism of the humankind to land relationship and how this has driven and will drive cadastral reforms. The cadastral concept has developed significantly over the past few decades. During this time these systems, whether developed from a land market or land taxation perspective, have increasingly played a multi-purpose role. Since the time humankind learned to settle on land, cadastres have developed and evolved to suit society’s needs. Changes in the relationship of humankind to land have invoked matching evolutionary changes in the function of cadastres. The most recent examples are current world concerns of environmental management, sustainable development and social justice. Due to this, multi-purpose role cadastres are increasingly seen as fundamental to economic development, environmental management and social stability in both the developed and developing worlds. This paper reviews the trends in the hu...

Developing a common spatial data infrastructure between State and Local Government--an Australian case study

Over the last decade a number of countries and states have successfully established complete spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) incorporating core digital map bases such as the cadastre or land parcel layer, topography, hydrology, road networks and administrative boundaries. These have usually been based on the amalgamation of national or state mapping and cadastral or land registration systems. At the same time many cities or Local Governments world-wide have established their own SDIs although they are more commonly referred to as geographical information systems. However in most cases the relationship between the Local Government and the National or State systems is at best poor. The result is that in many cases Local Government does not use the state SDI. This presents many difficulties in establishing state or national data sets, particularly where Local Government is responsible for controlling or maintaining the integrity of specific land related data in the state SDI. This paper describes the successful establishment of a partnership between 78 Local Government authorities and a State Government in Australia. This successful partnership has resulted in the State providing and updating the basic SDI for Local Government and Local Government in turn providing land parcel and property data to the State Government. This has resulted in significant improvements being made to the core map bases in the State SDI (such as the increased integrity of the state street address file), a marked reduction in duplicative mapbase maintenance activity (particularly by Local Government) and increased adoption of GIS technologies by Local Government with the beginnings of considerable flow-on benefits to the community being observed. The authors believe that this is a useful model which facilitates the SDI concept becoming a reality and which has generic application in many countries world-wide.

The evolving role of land administration in support of sustainable development

The changing humankind-land relationship and current global and local drivers such as sustainable development, urbanization, globalization, economic reform and the information revolution, demand land administration responses. Of the global drivers, sustainable development may be identified as having overall significance because of its dynamic economic-political, social, and environmental dimensions. At the heart of the challenging opportunity-cost decisions for sustainable development is the pressing need for land administration systems to evolve speedily and appropriately to support the sustainable development imperative.

Land Administration and Cadastral Trends: The Impact of the Changing Humankind-Land Relationship and Major Global Drivers: the NZ Experience

Abstract The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the current forces of change on the humankind/land relationship and why an increasingly integrated approach to land administration and management is imperative. An overview of the past forces of change on land administration is discussed to demonstrate the dynamic nature of the humankind/land relationship. Particular attention is given to major global drivers such as sustainable development, globalization, economic reform and the information technology revolution. The potential impact of these current forces (particularly sustainable development), on the institutional, legal, political and technological frameworks of a nation, is discussed New Zealand, which has undergone considerable economic and legislative reforms since the mid-1980s, is used as an illustration of trends and the imperative for a more integrated approach to land administration across those frameworks.

Dispute resolution for customary lands: some lessons from Fiji

Abstract Customary land tenure involves a complex and detailed array of tenure rights which are often difficult to reconcile with western systems of land tenure. Land disputes arising from customary land tenure are costly, time consuming and often hinder the operation of governments, land administrators, developers, investors, proprietors and land users. These disputes may be the result of the customary system or the result of the tensions of a dual tenure system. This paper discusses the experience of Fiji in addressing disputes involving customary land and proposes a framework for resolving disputes in customary land.