Maa-20.375 International Land Management, 2005


This note includes
  1. Course objectives
  2. Course schedule
  3. Literature references
  4. Presentation directions
  5. Dictionaries and terminology aids

1. Course objectives: Introduce basic concepts of the Land Management domain, as well as elements of Organisational Studies, Public Administration, and Institutional Economics with reference to international development projects and research within the domain.
 
In looser terms, the course aims at providing you with an overview of most of the wide field of Land Management. It thus only briefly introduces you to important subjects like Organisational studies, Public administration, and Institutional economics. Having completed the course, you should Preliminary knowledge: Understanding of property rights, cadastre and land registry in your home country, or similar.


2. Course schedule
Day
Time		 Subject
Mo 10.10.
10-14
OHs
 Course overview, and planning of presentations. Course resources. - ILM, the surveyors' profession and development. - Components and functions of Land Administration. The Cadastral System. Conveyancing, subdivision, other processes. - Literature references: Dale, 1999; Stubkjær, 2002; see details below. 
We 12.10.
08-12
OHs
 The legal perception of rights in land. - Localizing rights in land. Stevens' scales of measurement. Administration of place names. The geospatial infrastructure and land administration. Mentioning of issues not covered. - Presentations. - Lit.refs:  Julstad, 2003; Bruce, 1993; Stevens, 1946; Stubkjær, 1992; Stubkjær, 2001.
Mo 17.10.
10-14
OHs
 Studies of organisations. Rational and administrative man (Simon). Bureaucracy (Weber). The Leavitt model of change. - Public administration, and the organisation of change processes. - Hierarchy, markets and networks. The structure - actor interplay. Actor/ stakeholder and policy issue networks. - Lit.refs: Any business school intro to org.stud; Leavitt,  1965; Stubkjær, 2004.
We 19.10.
08-12
OHs
 Property rights as an institution. D.C. North on development of property rights in the US. De Soto on lack of formalised property rights. The Washington Consensus on economic development, and a 'Cameralist' alternative. - Presentation.- Bolivia as a case country. - Lit.refs: North, 1990; De Soto, 2000; Williamson, 2004; Raghavan, 2002;
Mo 31.10.
10-14
OHs
 The development business: The donors, the partner countries, and the knowledge centers. - Logical framework analysis. Adapting development objectives to the country concerned: Focus on decentralisation, infrastructure, or property market. Lit.refs:  Guidelines, 1998;  Jütting, 2003; Jütting, 2005
We 02.11.
08-12
OHs
 Guest lecture: Experiences from working as a consultant. Preparing oneself for the job. Answering of questions from course participants. - Presentations. - Professional codes of conduct. Professions as institutional agents (W. Richard Scott). Institutional transactions (Bromley). Lit.refs: FIG publication nr 17;  Scott, 1995; Stubkjær, 2004, on Bromley, 1989.
Mo 07.11
10-14

 Examination
We 09.11.
10-12		 Assessment of the examination


3. Literature references

Basic:

Dale, Peter & John McLaughlin (1999) Land Administration. Oxford University Press.
The EU Land Policy Guidelines (2004) http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/theme/land/index_en.htm

Background:

The literature list is a variety of monographs, articles, reports, and reviews, providing an idea of the scope of the course, and definitely not meant as basis for a general: "read this title from page n to page m" pedagogy. You may consult the lecturer with your proposal in writing for a reading list and the intended learning profile.
 
Bromley, Daniel W (1989): Economic Interests and Institutions - The conceptual foundation of public policy. New York: Blackwell. 274 p.
Bruce, J (1993) Review of tenure terminology. Land Tenure Center Report. University of Wisconsin. Quoted in Hendrix, 1995, available as Tenure Brief 1, 1998 from http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/ltc/ltctb01.pdf
Campbell, Heather (1991) Organizational issues in managing geographic information. in: Masser, Ian & Blakemore, Michael (Eds): Handling geographical information - Methodology and potential applications. Longman, Harlow, UK. Pp 259 - 282.
De Soto, Hernando (2000) The Mystery of Capital - Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else. Bantam Press, London. 243 p.
Deininger, Klaus (2003) Land policies for growth and poverty reduction. A World Bank Policy Research Report. World Bank and Oxford University Press. Find a critical review by Elizabeth Fortin (2005) Reforming Land Rights: The World Bank and the Globalisation of Agriculture Social and Legal Studies 14 (2) 147-177
FIG (1995) The FIG Statement on the Cadastre. FIG publication no 11. Available at http://www.fig7.org.uk/publications/cadastre/statement_on_cadastre.html
Find all FIG publications through http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pubindex.htm'
Guidelines (1998) for Pogramme Design, Monitoring and Evaluation. Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. 1998, 79 p, annexes.
Janvry, Alain de, Gordillo, Sadoulet, and Platteau (Eds) (2001) Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press
Janvry, Alain de and Elisabeth Sadoulet, April 2001 Policy Brief No. 3 Access to Land and Land Policy Reforms http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/pb3.pdf
Julstad, Barbro (Ed) (2003) Fastighetsbegreppen i de nordiska länderna (The concept of real property rights in the Nordic countries). LMV-rapport 2003:3 Lantmäteriet, Gävle. ISSN-nr: 280-5731. 116p.
Jütting, Johannes (2003) Institutions and Development - A critical Review. OECD/DAC Working Paper No. 210 Research programme on Social Institutions and Dialogue. Available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/19/63/4536968.pdf
Jütting, Johannes, Elena Corsi and Albrecht Stockmayer (2005) Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction Policy Insights, No. 5, January 2005 http://www.oecd.org/dev/insights
Larsson, Gerhard (1996) Land registration and cadastral systems - Tools for land information management. Longman, Essex, UK. 175 p.
Larsson, Gerhard (1997) Land Management. Byggforskningsrådet. Stockholm.
Leavitt, Harold J (1965) Applied organizational change in industry - Structural, technological and humanistic approaches. Pp. 1144 - 1170 in: James G March (Ed) Handbook of organizations. Rand McNally, Chicago.
North, Douglass C (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2002, 152 p.
Platteau, Jean-Philippe (2002) The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies. Discussion Paper No. 2002/26 UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) 34 p. February 2002
Raghavan, Chakravarthi (2002) “Kicking away the ladder” to prevent others climbing up. Review of Ha-Joon Chang (2002) Kicking Away the Ladder (Anthem Press, 187 page) Third World Economics No. 285 (16-31 July 2002).  Available at http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twe285e.htm .  Compare with a critical review by Douglas Irwin at http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0777.shtml
Scott,  W. Richard (1995) Institutions and organizations. SAGE publications. 
Stevens, S. S. (1946) On the theory of scales of measurement Science Vol 103, No 2684 (June 7) p. 677 - 680 . Developed upon in Chrismann, N (1997) Exploring geographic information systems. Wiley. 298 p.
Stubkjær, E (1992) The development of national, multi-purpose spatial information systems - Danish experiences in a theoretical context. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 16 (3) (May/June 1992) 209-217.
Stubkjær, Erik (2001) Spatial, Socio-economic Units and Societal Needs - Danish Experiences in a Theoretical Context. Pp 265-279 in: Frank, A U; Raper, J; Cheylan, JP (Eds): Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units. GISDATA Series, no. 8. London, Taylor & Francis.
Stubkjær, E. (2002)  Modelling Real Property Transactions. Paper presented at the XXII FIG Congress, Washington, D.C. USA, April 19-26 2002, www.fig.net/figtree/pub/fig_2002/Js14/JS14_stubkjaer.pdf
Stubkjær, Erik (2004) Matrikulær udvikling - Er forklaring og påvirkning mulig? (Cadastral development - The potential of explanation and influence) Pp 187 -  225 in Jens Christensen (Ed) Vidensgrundlag for handlen. Aalborg Universitetsforlag.  294 p.
Williamson, John (2004) The Washington Consensus as Policy Prescription for Development. A lecture in the series "Practitioners of Development" delivered at the World Bank on January 13, 2004.  http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/williamson0204.pdf   A commentary  on the issue: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0507/S00330.htm


4. Presentation directions 

Course participants are requested to organise themselves into groups of preferably 2-3 persons, who agree on a primary and a secondary case country. The group reports the group members and countries to the lecturer, and suggest a presentation day. Lecturer schedules presentation day and case country. Group prepares a 15-20 min presentation, addressing among others At the presentation, one paper copy of the presentation, provided with names of group members and date of presentation, ~4-6 slides pr page, is handed over to the lecturer. The presentation copy is included in the examination rating.


5. Dictionaries and Terminology aids

Abbott D (2004) The Shorter Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms. Delta Alpha Publishing Limited.
Bruce, J (1993) Review of tenure terminology. Land Tenure Center Report. University of Wisconsin. Quoted in Hendrix, 1995,
available as Tenure Brief 1, 1998 from http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/ltc/ltctb01.pdf
GTZ (1998?) Glossary of Technical Terms - Fachglossar - Glossaire de termes techniques. http://www.gtz.de/orboden/tenure/te_frm.htm
[English - German - French terms on same line]
Leonard, Rebeca and Judy Longbottom (2000) Land Tenure Lexicon - A glossary of terms from English and French speaking West
Africa. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) www.iied.org [About 5 lines of explanation for every term]
Viitanen, Kauko (toim.): Suomi-englanti kiinteistösanasto - Finnish-English Dictionary of Real Estate, 2003 (B102). Julkaistu
verkkojulkaisuna
Viitanen, Kauko (toim.): Englanti-suomi kiinteistösanasto - English-Finnish Dictionary of Real Estate, 2003
(B103). Julkaistu verkkojulkaisuna

Erik Stubkjær, est@land.aau.dk,  2005-11-25 Larsson (1996) added; 2005-08-18