Development of Cadastre and other Spatial Data Infrastructures

The content of the present table renders my preparation for the 2008-version of my mini-course within the Land Management Programme at the Real Estate Planning & Land Law unit at KTH, Stockholm.
The planning outcome appears in the bottom row with (links to) handouts and slides.
The background was a similar course held in 2007, and a contribution to a more recent course in Malta (my password needed; leaflet available).
The upper content-lists were prepared 3. October, the next below was elaborated 31. November. The course was held 2.-4. December.
1. A theoretical base for cadastral development. Scope of Course. 2. Cadastre as an Information System.
Organisational studies.
3. Cadastre, land administration,
and economic development
  • Introduction
    • The concepts of cadastre and infrastructure
    • Societal functions; organisations and services
    • Course worldview; levels of social analysis
  • Society, state and ownership
    • Society types: Clan-familymember, authority-citizen, and market-entrepreneur
    • States: Strength vs. scope of functions
    • Land tenure: Individuality, exclusivity, totality
  • Cadastre and other recordings of spatial data 
    • Territorial units of a country; jurisdictions
    • Spatial data categories
    • Transactions: subdivision, sale, building permit
  • Organisation of activities (1)
    • Types of organisations: Companies, associations
    • Components of organisations (Leavitt)
  • Organisation of public administration
    • Human resource management (Egypt)
    • Main national information services in the EU
    • Rule-based state bureaucracy (Weber)
    • Public management (Koupus)
  • Organisation of activities (2)
    • Changing legislation through policy issue network
    • Enhancement of spatial data interoperability
  • Causes of economic growth
    • Technology, education, news, + ‘institutions’
    • Quality of institutions: Legal, financial, innovative
  • Economic development
    • State-of-the-art as regards land tenure
    • Doing Business and Registering property (WB)
    • The role of professions in development
    • Technology for empowering citizens (and staff?)
  • Wikiversity as a development resource
  • Course summary
  • Introduction
    • The cadastral system and its societal functions
    • Institutions, organisations, levels of analysis
  • Inequality (economic)
    • Global overview
    • Two cases: Denmark, Botswana
  • Overcoming inequalities
    • Technology, education, news
    • Quality of institutions -> direction of surplus; health
    • The role of property rights; Cadastral development
  • Society, state and ownership
    • Types of society 1/2: 
      • Clan-clanmember; implications for ownership
      • Authority-citizen + family-familymember
      • Market-entrepreneur + partnership-contractor
    • Types of society 2/2: 
      • Western: Contnl European vs English speaking
      • General: Strength vs. scope of functions
  • Cadastre among other recordings of spatial data 
    • Spatial data categories; socio-economic units
    • Territorial units of a country; jurisdictions
    • Post addresses and spatial reference frames
  • Public information services - flow of information
    • The European Interoperability Framework
    • Transactions on rights in land: subdivision, sale, building permit. De Soto on procedures.
  • Real property rights and the cadastral infrastructure
    • Physical, legal and economic aspects of RPR
    • Land tenure: Individuality, exclusivity, totality
    • Social functions of the cadastral and wider system
  • Institution, organisation, and change
    • Institution, as defined by North
    • Organisations: Structure, types, components (Leavitt
    • Institutional change:
  • Economic development or 'Overcoming inequalities'
    • Levels of social analysis. Religions. Constitutions.
    • From cadastral surveys to Washington Consensus
    • The role of professions in development (de Soto)
    • Doing Business and Registering property (WB)
  • Organisation of public administration
    • Public management (Koupus)
    • Rule-based state bureaucracy (Weber)
      • Bureaucracy vs. patrimonialism
      • Decisions: Rational, administrative, legal
      • Formal vs. charismatic authority (Egypt)
  • How half of Danes got real property rights 1089-1982
  • Suggestions:
  • Summary and evaluation
Handout, with overview: Development factors
Slides: Context
Handout, with overview: Organisations and Institutions
Slides: Space, Administration, Power
Handout, with overview: Economic Development
Slides: Economic Development


Erik Stubkjær, 2008-12-15; 11-29; 10-03; 08-27, est [at] land.aau.dk, Aalborg University, Denmark