Fit-for-purpose land administration (FFPLA) seeks to simplify cadastral mapping via lowering the costs and time associated with conventional surveying methods. This approach can be applied both initial establishment on-going maintenance of system. In Ethiopia, remains an challenge, especially in rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas, where farmers’ rights tenure security are often jeopardized. Au...

In Germany the introduction of a feed-in tariff for renewable energies in the year 2000 led to a massive increase in newly constructed photovoltaic (PV) plants reaching a total installed capacity of 35 GWp as of November 30th, 2013. The distribution of these plants shows a large disparity between regions, which motivates investigations of regional potentials which earlier studies of Germany hav...

Population growth, urbanization and industrialization place more pressure on land use with the need for increased space. To extend the use and functionality of the land, complex infrastructures are being built, both vertically and horizontally, layered and stacked. These three-dimensional (3D) developments affect the interests (Rights, Restrictions, and Responsibilities (RRRs)) attached to the ...

Among the existing state cadastres, an important place belongs to water, which is basis of management water fund. According Water Code Ukraine, fund includes all bodies, provides for systematic determination reserves and quality resources in a particular area.Water affected by large number factors, including location, body category, intake area, mirror volume, river network type, terrain parame...

Surface imperviousness has proven to be a convenient and universal indicator to characterise environmental states and processes in the urban context. Geometric and spectral very high resolution data were hence employed in this study to quantify imperviousness for selected sites in the city of Berlin, Germany. HyMap data from 2003 and Quickbird data from 2002 were aquired for overlapping areas a...

Contemporary large-scale land deals are widely understood as involving the expulsion of people who, in turn, struggle instinctively to resist dispossession This is certainly true in many instances. Yet this chain of events evidently does not always occur: large-scale land deals do not always result in people losing the land, and many of those who face expulsion do not necessarily respond with t...

Increasingly developing world governments are being re-structured to improve governance and to alleviate poverty, and this also applies to government departments associated with the registration and cadastral systems. The link between cadastral reform, good governance and poverty alleviation will be explored by reviewing some of the recent thinking in this area, and by drawing on experience wit...