451-418 Land Administration

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Subject Description

The objectives of this subject are to provide an understanding of the need for effective and efficient land administration systems, to review a variety of technologies for developing and maintaining such systems, and to review and analyse a range of local and overseas approaches to land administration in both developed and developing countries.

Topics covered include: the concept of land and land as a resource; land administration and land management; the cadastral concept and legal, fiscal and multi-purpose cadastres; cadastral surveying and mapping; principles and concepts of land registration; rights, restrictions and responsibilities related to land; cadastral systems in developing countries including informal cadastres, parallel cadastres and customary tenures; AGENDA 21 and HABITAT II Global Plan of Action; land and geographic information systems; urban information systems; cadastral reform; land administration and spatial information systems in Victoria and associated government policy; institutional arrangements supporting land administration; spatial data infrastructures in Australia; coordinated cadastres; digital cadastral data bases; comparative cadastral studies; modelling and evaluating cadastral and land information systems; land markets and their relationship to planning, valuation and cadastre.

Assessment

Not more than three hours of written examinations and tests, 3000 word essay or assignment, one seminar (1000 words) and tutorial work (not more than 20 pages). The relative weighting of the assessment components will be published at the commencement of the subject