Building land administration systems
Sustainable development policies and new technologies offer substantial opportunities for land administration systems (LAS) and spatial data infrastructures (SDI). Unless these opportunities are explained comprehensively, innovation is likely to be problematic.
These challenges are explained to assist people who want to take them up by placing LAS and SDIs within a land management paradigm. This approach aims guide design, building, and management of LAS and SDIs, and determination of when a system is working effectively.
The knowledge gathered in the last sixty years in land administration and SDIs is organised in the context of an overall theme to develop land administration capacity to meet the Millennium challenges of poverty alleviation, economic development, environmental sustainability and management of rapidly growing cities. The adaptability and flexibility of land administration, both in theory and in practice, is shown in the context of the new vision of LAS within the land management paradigm, in which good governance, eDemocracy and knowledge management are better achieved. .
Most of all, the global changes in LAS since 2000 are explained and a vision for how they will look in 2010 and beyond is identified.