A Theoretical Basis for Cadastral Development


In the context of The Masters Programme in Land Management, provided by the Unit for Real Estate Planning and Land Law, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, I lectured three mornings the 1.-3. December 2009.

The purpose of the lectures was to make the students aware of theory which relate to their task of “Building up a property register in your countries”, a project within the Masters programme.

The main theoretical basis lectured was Institutional Economics (Douglass C North; Oliver Williamson), supplemented with organisational theories (incl. Max Weber), as well as spatial reference frames.

The agenda of the three days were as follows (with links to handouts):
  1. December
    1. The cadastral system - 2. Analysis of society - 3. Inequality  and 'convergence' - 4. Society, state and ownership
  2. December
    1. Components of Spatial Data Infrastructures - 2. Public information services - 3. Organisation and institution.
  3. December
    1. Development strategies - 2. De Soto (2000) - 3. Understanding institutions- 4. Institutional transactions - 5. Why did Denmark develop?
In discussions, the Danish mortgage system was mentioned by me. Some references are provided on a webpage, suggesting a semester programme Autumn 2010

As this was the last version of the course, for historical reasons some previous versions are listed: 2008  2007 2006 2005  
Erik Stubkjær, est (at) land.aau.dk, 2009-12-09; 12-02