Course programme: Cadastral Development – The Contribution of Scientific Enquiry
Slight change Wednesday 4th - New version


May 2005

Content (Morning/ afternoon;
Lectures are followed by discussion among present lecturers of the course)

Lecturer

Monday, 2nd

The Domain of Research

Models of society, and the modelers

Erik Stubkjær

Land administration and land management; an institutional approach

Hans Sevatdal


 

The shareholder mode of home ownership in Finland

Kauko Viitanen

Tuesday, 3rd

Research in Progress
Participants present their PhD project:
  • The research issue, and its motivation
  • The theoretical basis, with main references
  • The research question(s)
  • Methodology considerations

Selected participants,
present lecturers


 

A guide to the literature

Erik Stubkjær

Project presentation (cont’d)

Selected participants,
lecturers

Exercises at Aalborg University Library (optional)

Wednesday, 4th

The Design of Research - Lessons of recent research projects

Applying an interdisciplinary methodology; choice of study cases.

Jaap Zevenbergen

Descriptive vs. explanatory research; choice of study cases.

Maria A Silva


The Development of Property Rights

Searching for a synthesis (Demsetz, Coase, Libecap, Eggertsson, North, .. )

Hans Mattsson

Must ownership be individual ? An assessment of the Norwegian Commons

Hans Sevatdal

Thursday, 5th

The Analysis of Development Projects

Modeling the structure of real property rights (including exercises)

Hans Mattsson

Reflecting a consultant’s work from a scientific perspective

Jaap Zevenbergen

The development of university education in land management: An analysis of obstacles and potentials

Hans Mattsson


 

Christian and national (5. May 1945) holiday.  Library exercises


Friday, 6th

Research Outcomes and Needs. Evaluation

Causes of cadastral development: The Riis & Mikkelsen frame of analysis. The 'Profit/ Resources' model. Empirical findings

Maria A Silva

COST G9 Modeling Real Property Transactions: A survey of research needs

Erik Stubkjær


 

Course evaluation

All

Participants are expected to submit their presentations of PhD projects well before the course (Overheads, about 5 pages of text, extensive litterature list). The discussion following lectures is moderated and opened by 1 or 2 appointed co-lecturers.
 
As some participants are coming from technical unversities, they may use the visit to benefit from the rich collections of social science titles at Aalborg University Library.  
 
The exercises Thursday are based on the formalism of Unified Modelling Language.

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