451418607 Land Administration

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451-418/607 Land Administration
Overview 2006

• Professor Ian Williamson
• Jude Wallace ( Room D 317)
• Rohan Bennett (Room C416-427)
• February 28th 2006

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Academic goals

• Understand effective and efficient land
  administration systems (LAS) and spatial data
  infrastructures (SDI)
• Be able to review technologies for designing and
  managing these systems
• Understand the range of local approaches,
  especially different needs of developing and
  developed nations

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• - Land administration responses
• - The land administration tool box
• - Cadastres
• Land registration, valuation, use and
• development systems
• Cadastral surveying and
• mapping

• Overview
• People to land relationships
• Scientific methods

Growth of Land Administration
Introduction

• - Developed countries
• Newly industrialized
• countries
• Developing countries
• Island Nations
• Islamic countries
• Countries in transition

• Benchmarking
• and indicators
• Re-engineering
• systems
• Human rights
• Land administration
• vision
• Women's access
• Privacy
• Environment
• Land markets
• Sustainability
• accounting
• Marine cadastres
• Market based instruments

Land Administration 451-418/607
Case Studies
Future trends and issues
International Initiatives

• Bathurst Declaration
• UN-FIG Bogor Declaration
• FIG Cadastre 2014
• WB Land Policy 2003
• UN-ECE Guidelines on
• land administration

Technology and Spatial Data Infrastructures

• - Digital Cadastral Databases
• Land administration data models
• Information access technologies
• eLand administration
• iLand spatially enabling governments
• Spatial hierarchy problem and the SDI solution

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Context

• Land administration is a growing discipline about
  land administration systems (LAS)
• Every system is challenged by the local
  conditions and new technologies
• Change management is key to successful LAS
• Spatial information and supporting technology are
  potentially going to change our systems.
• Google Earth, your phones, your cars

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• Small challenges for land administration
• Torrens systems up dates
• Building titles
• Mortgage backed certificates
• Property trusts
• Shopping centres
• Time shares
• Marine interests
• Native titles
• Public infrastructure
• New property carbon credits, trade wastes,
  building permissions, biota
• New financial and market based instruments
• Water title trading
• Roads registration .

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Big challenges for land administration

• Lack of competencies we need trained people
• Governance in private and public sectors
• Massive world poverty
• Sustainability land degradation and
  environmental issues
• Slum management
• Security of tenure
• Gender equity
• More in next lecture

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Generic skills (in short)

• Application of knowledge
• Technical competence
• Problem identification formulation and solution
• Utilise systems approach
• Effective functioning as individual, and in
  multi-discipline teams
• Understand responsibilities of a professional
  engineer
• Critical thinking
• Curiosity and creativity
• Respect for cultural diversity

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Teaching approaches

• Land administration is changing. Everyone is
  continuously learning.
• Project based learning.
• Lectures focussed with key questions at end
• Lectures by experts in their specialist fields
• Forums about
• your assignments
• key engineering issues
• Land Registry
• spatial data infrastructures
• Presentations by the class for the class

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Learning approaches

• Learning requires your engagement and enthusiasm.
  Assessment is designed to reward your efforts.
• 50 Exam three hour
• 20 Country report
• 15 Country presentation (30 mins for each group
  of 3/5)
• 5 Land Registry visit
• 10 Forum/Tutorial participation

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2005 Feedback

• Remedy
• More reserves in library new cheaper text
  available
• Introduction of lecturer moderated forums
• Kate Dalrymple has left, but, still no
  spoon-feeding
• Groups of 3 instead of 15 for assignment
• Only one major assignment makes feedback hard,
  but forum marks will be available
• Make use of the updated subject diagram

• Problem
• Text is too pricy
• Student run tutorials are not useful
• Tutors could have been more helpful and
  professional
• Groups for assignment were too big
• Feedback came too late and not often enough
• There is information overload in this subject!
  Course structure and consistence gets lost