Thursday, 1. May

Afternoon 1

An administrative-historical account of the development of national land information systems and land law, 1780 to present.

Afternoon 2

A focus on technical aspects may lead to a dead end. When conditions are adverse to development, the surveyor needs to acquire skills in order to deal with, among others, institutional and economic aspects.

Friday, 2. May

Morning 1

In 1999, Nordic academic views on real estate and cadastre were presented in the Norwegian journal Kart og Plan. The session will review developments since then and provide an account of state-of –the-art.

Prof. Hans Mattsson, Real Estate Planning and Land Law, Royal Institute of Technology, S
Prof. Kauko Viitanen, Department of Surveying, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN
Prof. Hans Sevatdal, Department of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural Uni of Norway
Prof. Erik Stubkjær, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, DK

Indicative refs:
International Edition: Real Estate and Cadastre – Nordic Academic Views on Real Estate and Cadastre. Kart og Plan 59 (3), 1999, 251-284.

Morning 2

WPLA, Working Party for Land Administration, is the forum for European land administration agencies. It parallels the EuroGeographics, the organisation of European national mapping agencies.

Afternoon1

Indicative refs:
Special issue ‘Infrastruktur for stedbestemt information’ (Spatial Data Infrastructure) GeoForum Perspektiv Februar 2002

Afternoon2

NN: GeoForum – Past achivements and present challenges

GeoForum is the Danish association supporting the prosperous use of geographic information. Its legacy includes a widely used Danish standard for exchange of geographic information, the DSFL-format. A version in XML is being discussed.

Saturday, 3. May

Morning

NN: Formalization of research cooperation: An evaluation of models for small-volume research

Plenum: Discussion on research formalisation

Sunday, 4. May

Monday, 5. May

Morning 1

Erik Stubkjær: Setting the scene

Actors internationally, and their approaches; National actors; Consolidating knowledge from neighbouring disciplines

Indicative refs:
The Bathurst Declaration on Land Administration for Sustainable Development, FIG publ. No. 11, 1999
Holstein, L (1996) Towards best practice from World Bank experiences in land titling and registration. International Conference on Land Tenure and Administration, Orlando, Florida, November 1996. 26 p.
Stubkjær (2001) Integrating Ontologies: Assessing the use of the Cyc Ontology for Cadastral Applications

Morning 2

Hans Mattsson: Cooping with legal systems

The European legal systems, a historical outline; Contributions by Comparative law. Differences between Continental and Common Law, by way of examples from ECE Guidelines.

Indicative refs:
ECE Land Administration Guidelines. 1996
Mattei, Antoniolli and Rossato (1999) Comparative law and economics, section Nr 560 in Bouckaert and De Geest (eds.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Volume I.
Zweigert, Kötz (1992) An Introduction to Comparative Law.

Afternoon 1

A variety of methods of social science are available for describing social interactions, understanding the motives of human agents, explaining the causes of social changes, or predicting the outcome of a social process. These methods can be applied to demonstrate, how cadastral systems form a part of society, and are used by people in their everyday life.

Indicative refs:
Pole, C & R. Lampard: Practical Social Investigation. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Research, Prentice Hall, Harlow 2002.
Riis, Ole: Metoder på Tværs, DJØF Forlag, København 2002.

Afternoon 2

Trained in surveying and law, the void between the two perspectives on the same phenomena (legal land registration) became clear. To fill the void, systems analysis and case study methodology were found, studied, and applied.

Indicative refs:
Yin, R K (1994) Case study research: Design and methods. Rev. edition. Sage Publications.
Zevenbergen (1995) What makes a land registration 'go round'. Pp 171-179 in: Proceedings, 3rd Polish-Dutch Symposium on Geodesy, Olsztyn.
Zevenbergen (1998) The interrelated influence of technical, legal and organisational aspects on the functioning of land registration (cadastres). Proceedings, XXI FIG International Congres, Brighton
Zevenbergen (2002) Systems of Land Registration – Aspects and Effects. Dr Thesis. Publ 61, NGC, Delft, NL

Tuesday, 6. May

Morning

Groups of 4-5 persons:
Comparing papers (about 15 pages) on national structure of cadastral systems and development efforts.
Plenum: Summarising key issues.

Afternoon

PhD students: Presentations of PhD project
Lecturers: Comments on methodology and theory

Evening

Social event

Wednesday, 7. May

Morning 1

The situation found in the mid-90s is re-analysed from the perspective of theories of institutions (North, de Soto), focusing on the legal and administrative framework, rule of law, and civil society.

Indicative refs:
North, D C (1994) Institutions Matter Economic History, Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL.
de Soto, Hernando (2000) The Mystery of Capital - Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else. Bantam Press, London.
Zevenbergen (2002) Kick-starting land registration and cadastre during land reform. Seminar paper, Wageningen.

Morning 2

One of the rather few controversies on cadastral development is analysed from the perspective of critical realism, and a mediating view is proposed.

Indicative refs:
Danermark et al, (2001) Explaining Reality. Routledge.
Williamson, I & L. Ting (1999) Cadastral trends - : A synthesis Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 25, pp 339-366
Tan, Willie (1999) The Development of Cadastral Systems – An alternative view The Australian Surveyor 44 (2) 159 – 164

Afternoon 1

Erik Stubkjær: The COST G9 project "Modelling Real Property Transactions" - Methodology and outcome so far.

Indicative refs:
COST G9 Memorandum of Understanding (Technical Annex)
Stubkjær (2002) Modelling Real Property Transactions. XXII FIG International Congres, Washington D.C.
Stuckenschmidt, Stubkjær and Schlieder (2003) The Ontology and Modelling of Real Estate Transactions. Ashgate.

Afternoon 2

Plenum: Identifying and structuring research needs for cadastral development

Afternoon 3

Exam (2 hours): Answering questions and writing half-to-one page notes to demonstrate understanding of content of reader, and awareness of concepts in referenced literature.