SIE 526 Cadastral and Land Information Systems

Assigned Readings and Lecture Notes

(subject to radical change)

I. TRADITIONAL DEED RECORDING IN A MODERN WORLD & HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAND TITLING SYSTEMS

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The Land Tenure System of the United States

Onsrud, Harlan

Comparisons Among Land Records of the European Colonies and Other Improved Systems Used in Developing Countries

Barr, MacDonald (1985), Water and Urban Development Department of the World Bank.

The Story of Land, Chap. 22

Powelson, John P., Univ of Colorado

II. THE VALUE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN LAND

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Economic Growth: The Poor and the Rich, The Economist, May 25th, 1996

The Next Path, Forbes, May 23, 1994

Hernando DeSoto, Reason Online

Property Formalization: The Proform Solution

McLaughlin and DeSoto

Testing the Desoto Theory for Property Records Modernization

Hendrix, Steven E.

Value of the Legal Cadastre in a Free Market Economy

Jeffress, Gary

The Need for a Multi-disciplinary Approach to Land Administration Projects

Dansby and Jeffress

III. GUIDELINES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES

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a. Overview

New Dehli Declaration - Global Platform on Access to Land and Security of Tenure as a Condition for Sustainable Shelter and Urban Development

Habitat II Global Conference on Access to Land and Security of Tenure as a Condition for Sustainable Shelter and Urban Development, New Dehli, India, Jan 17-19, 1996

Myths of Property Rights

Hendrix, Steven E.

b. United Nations Reports

Guidelines for the Improvement of Land-Registration and Land-Information Systems in Developing Countries

United Nations Centre for Human Settlement (Habitat), (Nairobi, 1990)

c. World Bank Perspectives

The Benefits of Land Registration and Titling: Economic and Social Perspectives

Gershon Feder, Division Chief, and Akihiko Nishio, Senior Economist,

World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

Towards Best Practice from World Bank Experience in Land Titling and Registration

Lynn Holstein, Consultant, World Bank Washington, D.C.

IV. LAND ADMINISTRATION

Land Administration and Development: Framing the Policy Agenda

John McLaughlin, Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada

 

The Role of Local Land Administrators and Land Managers in Decentralization, Land Delivery, Registration and Information Management in Developing Countries

Clarissa Fourie, Lecturer, University of Natal, South Africa

Institutional Aspects of Land Administration

David Stanfield, Senior Scientist, University of Wisconsin, USA

V. INDIGENOUS AND CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE

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Traditional Land Tenure Issues for LIS in FIJI

Rakai, Mele E.T., I.C. Ezigbalike and I.P. Williamson, International Federation of Surveyors - FIG, XX, Commission 7. Melbourne, Australia: student award paper.

 

Land and Resource Tenure on Indigenous Lands in Mesoamerica

Tom Ankersen, University of Florida and Jose Mendoza Acosta, Centro de Desarrollo Indigena, Panama

Impact of Privatization on Gender and Property Rights in Africa

Susana Lastarria, University of Wisconsin

Community-Based Tenure Systems and National Land Tenure Systems: Is an Integration of the Two Possible?

Steve Leisz, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin

Crofting: An Example of Interacting Land Tenure and Rural Development Models

Fraser MacLeod, Scottish Crofters’ Union, Scotland and Richard Latham, University of East London, UK

VI. LAND REGISTRATION

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Williamson, I. P. (1986). "Cadastral and Land Information Systems in Developing Countries." The Australian Surveyor 33.No. 1: 27-43 (or update from Brighton)

Land Registration in Context

Niels Haldrup, Denmark

Incorporating a Social Change Model into Land Record Design

Colin Davies, East London Municiality, and Clarissa Fourie, University of Natal, South Africa

What are the Roles of the Public and Private Sectors in Land Titling and Registration Systems?

Lynn Holstein, Consultant, World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Land Tenure Record System Modernization in the US

Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine

Title Registration Strategies - Successes and Failures

Martha Lombard, American Cadastre, Birmingham, AL, USA

VII. CADASTRAL SURVEYING

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Development of a Geodetic Infrastructure in Belize in Support of Cadastral Surveying using GPS

Trevor Greening, Measurement Science Inc., Denver

Pioneering a GPS approach towards Cadastral Surveying: Experience from Albania and Belize

Grenville Barnes, Associate Professor, and Mark Eckl, Graduate Student, University of Florida

General Considerations for Cadastral Surveying using Modern Techniques

Mabel Argeñal Rodriguez, Direccion Ejecutiva del Catastro, Honduras

Integrated Cadastral Technologies Field System for Documenting Title and Boundary Evidence

Harlan Onsrud, Tim Hodson, and Bryce Gartrell