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Technology and Knowledge Transfer
Technology and Knowledge Transfer
and Management - Philippines
Center for Land Administration
Land Management Bureau
LMB-CLAMP
© 2010 Land Management Bureau / Center for Land Administration and Management - Philippines
LAND ADMINISTRATION is the processes of determining, recording and disseminating information about tenure, value and use of land when implementing land management policies (UNECE 1996).
LAND MANAGEMENT is the process of managing the use and development of land resources. Some of the critical, and sometimes conflicting, objectives that must be addressed by land management policies today include:
-improving the efficiency of land resource use to support the rapidly growing population of many countries;
-providing incentives for development, including the provision of residential housing and basic infrastructure such as sewer and water facilities;
-protecting the natural environment from degradation;
-providing equitable and efficient access to the economic benefits of land and real estate markets;
-supporting government services through taxation and fees related to land and improvements.”
LAND REGISTRATION guarantees the security of property transactions and protects the owner from encroachment by third parties. The location and extent of the estate in question and the nature of rights affecting it are defined and recorded in the land register. Upon registration, title is granted to the owner of the estate. All subsequent changes in ownership and rights must refer to the rights bestowed under the registered title.
“LAND GOVERNANCE is about the policies, processes and institutions by which land, property and natural resources are managed. This includes decisions on access to land, land rights, land use, and land development. Sound land governance is fundamental in achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction and therefore a key component in supporting the global agenda, set by adoption of the MDG?s. Measures for adaptation to climate change will need to be integrated into strategies for poverty reduction to ensure sustainable development. The land management perspective and the role of the operational component of land administration systems therefore need high-level political support and recognition.“
--Prof. Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), 2010
THE CADASTRAL CONCEPT: The cadastre is essentially a methodically arranged public inventory of data concerning all legal land objects, based on a survey of their boundaries. Such legal land objects are systematically identified by means of some separate designation. They are defined either by private or by public law. The outlines of the property, the identifier together with descriptive data, may show for each separate land object the nature, size, value and legal rights or restrictions associated with the land object.
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (SDI) denotes the relevant base collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangements that facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data. The SDI provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation, and application for users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general.
The word infrastructure is used to promote the concept of a reliable, supporting environment, analogous to a road or telecommunications network, that, in this case, facilitates the access to geographically-related information using a minimum set of standard practices, protocols, and specifications.
An SDI must be more than a single data set or database; an SDI includes geographic data and attributes, sufficient documentation (metadata), a means to discover, visualize, and evaluate the data (catalogues and Web mapping), and some method to provide access to the geographic data. Beyond this are additional services or software to support applications of the data. To make an SDI functional, it must also include the organizational agreements needed to coordinate and administer it on a local, regional, national, and or trans-national scale.
LAND MANAGEMENT is the process of managing the use and development of land resources. Some of the critical, and sometimes conflicting, objectives that must be addressed by land management policies today include:
-improving the efficiency of land resource use to support the rapidly growing population of many countries;
-providing incentives for development, including the provision of residential housing and basic infrastructure such as sewer and water facilities;
-protecting the natural environment from degradation;
-providing equitable and efficient access to the economic benefits of land and real estate markets;
-supporting government services through taxation and fees related to land and improvements.”
LAND REGISTRATION guarantees the security of property transactions and protects the owner from encroachment by third parties. The location and extent of the estate in question and the nature of rights affecting it are defined and recorded in the land register. Upon registration, title is granted to the owner of the estate. All subsequent changes in ownership and rights must refer to the rights bestowed under the registered title.
“LAND GOVERNANCE is about the policies, processes and institutions by which land, property and natural resources are managed. This includes decisions on access to land, land rights, land use, and land development. Sound land governance is fundamental in achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction and therefore a key component in supporting the global agenda, set by adoption of the MDG?s. Measures for adaptation to climate change will need to be integrated into strategies for poverty reduction to ensure sustainable development. The land management perspective and the role of the operational component of land administration systems therefore need high-level political support and recognition.“
--Prof. Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), 2010
THE CADASTRAL CONCEPT: The cadastre is essentially a methodically arranged public inventory of data concerning all legal land objects, based on a survey of their boundaries. Such legal land objects are systematically identified by means of some separate designation. They are defined either by private or by public law. The outlines of the property, the identifier together with descriptive data, may show for each separate land object the nature, size, value and legal rights or restrictions associated with the land object.
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (SDI) denotes the relevant base collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangements that facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data. The SDI provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation, and application for users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general.
The word infrastructure is used to promote the concept of a reliable, supporting environment, analogous to a road or telecommunications network, that, in this case, facilitates the access to geographically-related information using a minimum set of standard practices, protocols, and specifications.
An SDI must be more than a single data set or database; an SDI includes geographic data and attributes, sufficient documentation (metadata), a means to discover, visualize, and evaluate the data (catalogues and Web mapping), and some method to provide access to the geographic data. Beyond this are additional services or software to support applications of the data. To make an SDI functional, it must also include the organizational agreements needed to coordinate and administer it on a local, regional, national, and or trans-national scale.
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