CONTENTS List of tables VI Foreword Vlll Preface IX Acknowledgments XII About the authors Xlll List of abbreviations XIV Part 1 introducing land administration 1 Setting the scene 4 1.1 integrated land administration5 1.2 Why build a land administration system? 15 1.3 The changing nature of land administration systems 26 1.4 Land reform29 1.5 Good governance 30 1.6 Ten principles of land administration 33 2 People and land administration 36 2.1 People and land 37 2.2 Historical evolution 58 Part 2 A new theory 68 3 The discipline of land administration 70 3.1 Evolution of land administiation as a discipline 71 3.2 Land administration and sustainable development 84 3.3 Incorporation of restrictions and responsibilities in LAS 88 4 Land administration processes 94 4.1 Importance of land administration processes95 4.2 Core land administration processes 97 4.3 Examples of tenure processes 99 4.4 Reforming LAS by improving process management 112 5 Modern land administration theory 114 5.1 Designing LAS to manage land and resources 115 5.2 The cadastre as an engine of LAS 127 Part 3 Building modern systems 134 6 Building land markets 136 6.1 A land administration view of land markets137 6.2 Building infrastructure to support formal markets 150 6.3 Land valuation and taxation 163 7 Managing the use of land 170 7.1 Land use 171 7.2 Planning control systems 176 7.3 Urban land-use planning and regulations 179 7.4 Rural planning and sectoral land-use regulations 185 7.5 Land consolidation and readjustment 189 7.6 Integrated land-use management 192 7.7 Land development 194 8 Marine administration 204 8.1 The need to improve marine administration 205 8.2 Challenges in building marine administration systems 206 8.3 Existing marine administration 207 8.4 The marine cadastre concept 210 8.5 Marine registers 214 8.6 Developing a marine SDI 216 8.7 Using the land management paradigm to meet marine needs 222 9 SDis and technology 224 9.1 Why do land administration systems need an SDI? 225 9.2 introducing the SDI 229 9.3 Integrating information about the natural and built environments 233 9.4 Making ICT choices 238 9.5 Land administration and cadastral data modeling 256 9.6 Maintaining momentum 261 10 Worldwide land administration activities 262 10.1 Land administration projects 263 10.2 Recent land administration and cadastral activities 269 10.3 The Worldwide Cadastral Template Project 271 10.4 Improving capacity to make global comparisons 290 Part 4 implementation 92 11 Capacity building and institutional development 294 11.1 The modern capacity-building concept 296 11.2 Capacity development 297 11.3 Capacity-building issues in land administration 301 11.4 Institutional capacity in land management 303 11.5 Education and training in land administration 307 12 The land administration toolbox 314 12.1 Using land administration tools 315 12.2 General tools 320 12.3 Professional tools 333 12.4 Emerging tools387 13 Project management and evaluation402 13.1 Project context 403 13.2 Designing and building land administration systems404 13.3 Evaluating and monitoring land administration systems 429 Part 5 The future of land administration434 14 Future trends436 14.1 The land administration journey437 14.2 LAS supporting sustainable development 439 14.3 LAS to support spatially enabled society440 14.4 LAS issues in the next decade443 14.5 The challenges ahead 445 Glossary448 Reference list 458 index 472