Integrated Land Administration: Institutional and Technical Challengesby Dr.John McLaughlin,
Professor, Geomatics Engineering, University of New
Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada.
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The role of property in fostering good governance, robust economies and strong civil societies has recently re-emerged as a major theme in both developed and developing countries. This presentation will briefly review this theme from a variety of economic, social and environmental perspectives and then examine some of the institutional and technical challenges associated with building the appropriate infrastructure to support the property institution. The focus will be on those activities (registration, taxation, etc.) that are collectively referred to as land administration.
Recent developments in the land administration field include fundamental institutional and legislative reforms, the introduction of reengineering concepts and processes, new concepts of risk management, the introduction of new technologies and a variety of administrative reforms. As well, there is a renewed interest in integrating various property related functions. In some ways this is an old idea - e.g. the old Colonial Lands Office - but it is being driven both by new demands, and by new technical and organizational strategies.
John D. McLaughlin - Profile :
John McLaughlin is Professor of Land Studies in the Department Of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. He has degrees in engineering from UNB, and studied for his doctorate at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin. Dr.McLaughlin is registered as a professional engineer in New Brunswick and is a life member of the Association of New Brunswick Land Surveyors.
Before coming to UNB, Dr.McLaughlin spent three years with the Government of New Brunswick and the Council of Maritime Premiers on the development of the Maritime Land Registration and Information Service. Subsequently he served as senior consultant to the H.U.D. demonstration program in North Carolina, as advisor to Energy, Mines and Resources Canada on geomatics, and to the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Alberta and Manitoba on land information policy.
Prof.McLaughlin was Chairman of the Department of Surveying Engineering (as it was then called) for six years between 1985-91. The Department has consistently being ranked as the top research program at UNB and is widely regarded as the strongest program in its field in the English-speaking world.
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