Land Administration Systems

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

120 hours

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Land Administration Systems introduces different approaches and systems to manage the legal, fiscal and administrative relationships to land. Topics covered include the concept of land; evolution of cadastres and land administration systems; land administration as a development strategy for economic growth and poverty reduction; the cadastral concept and legal, fiscal, multi-purpose and marine cadastres; cadastral surveying and mapping; land registration; rights, restrictions and responsibilities related to land in the context of informal, formal and customary tenures; cadastral systems in developing countries including informal cadastres, parallel cadastres, marine cadastres and customary tenures; relevant international declarations and statements concerned with land administration; cadastral reform; land administration 'tool box'; institutional arrangements supporting land administration; spatial data infrastructures; digital cadastral databases; modelling, designing and evaluating cadastral and land administration systems; land markets and their relationship to planning, valuation and cadastre; access to land information; land administration and spatial information systems

Upon completion of this subject students will have the ability to:

• Discuss the need for effective and efficient land administration systems and spatial data infrastructures (SDIs)
• Review a variety of technologies for designing and managing these systems
• Analyse a range of local and overseas approached to land administration in both developed and developing country contexts for sustainable development

• One 3-hr examination, end of semester (50%)
• A Major Project (3000 words), end of semester (30%)
• An Oral Group Presentation (30 mins), end of semester (10%)
• Tutorial Assignment, early in semester (10%)

Land Administration for Sustainable Development, (Williamson, Enemark, Wallace & Rajabifard), 2010

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
• Understanding of social, cultural, global, and environmenta responsibilities and the need to emply principles of sustainable development
• Ability to communicate effectively, with the engineering team and with the community at large
• Ability to manage information and documentation