Towards a Spatially Enabled Society

Edited by

Abbas Rajabifard

2007

Table of Contents

Foreword, Stig Enemark

Foreword, Peter Holland

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Preface, Abbas Rajabifard

Part 1- The Next Generation of Land Administration Systems to Support Sustainable Development

Capter 1 Land Administration – the Next Generation, Peter Dale

Capter 2 The Global Agenda: Towards Pro Poor Land Tenure Systems and Integrated Land-Use Management for Sustainable Development, Stig Enemark

Capter 3 Good Governance – What Does It Mean for Surveyor’s Profession and Contributions?, Holger Magel and Silke Franke

Capter 4 e-Government and e-Land administration in Order to Spatially Enable a Society, Paul Van Der Molen

Capter 5 Institutional Renewal-Challenges and Opportunities, Don Grant

Capter 6 Natural Resources Information - A Vital Component of the Next Generation of LAS to Support Sustainable Development, Brian G. Lees

Capter 7 The Next Generation of LAS to Support Sustainable Development, Filling the ‘Holes in the Maps’ Tony Burns

Capter 8 Reducing Urban Poverty through Pro Poor Approaches on Land Governance, Spatial Units and Land Registration, Clarissa Augustinus and Ulrik Westman

Capter 9 Spatially Enabling Mortgage Markets in Australia, Jude Wallace

Capter 10 Adverse Possession as Repair Mechanism: Recent Developments and Further Reflections, Malcolm McKenzie Park

Capter 11 Land Administration and Sustainable Development: Informed for Engagement, Lisa Ting-Chan

Capter 12 An Evaluation Framework for Land Administration Systems, Daniel Stuedler

Capter 13 Next Generation of Land Administration Systems to Support Sustainable Development, Kate Dalrymple

Capter 14 Brave New World: Innovative Tools for Spatially Enabling Land Administration, Rohan Bennett

Capter 15 Spatially Enabling Societies by Shifting the Basic Building Block, Mohsen Kalantari

Part 2- SDI development to support a spatially enabled society.

Capter 16 Monitoring SDI Developments to Support a Spatially Enabled Society, Ian Masser

Capter 17 SDI Design to Facilitate Spatially Enabled Society, Abbas Rajabifard

Capter 18 SDI and the Revolution in Land Administration Policy, Jim Riddell

Capter 19 Shared Land Information Platform – Spatially Enabling Western Australian Business and Citizens, D. Britton, M. Bradford and G. Searle

Capter 20 Cultural Diversity and the GSDI Vision, Santiago Borrero

Capter 21 SDI and Privacy: Conflicting Interests of the Spatially Enabled Society, Bastiaan van Loenen and Jitske de Jong

Capter 22 SDI Management: a Framework to Guide Business Design, T O Chan

Capter 23 Geographically Referenced Statistics within a SDI, Serryn Eagleson

Capter 24 SDI Development to Support a Spatially Enabled Society, Jessica Davies

Capter 25 Measuring and Modelling the Performance of SDI at the Sub-National Level – Some Research Challenges, Kevin McDougall

Capter 26 Re-engineering SDI Development to Support a Spatially Enabled Society, Andrew Binns

Capter 27 Spatial Data Integration: a Necessity for Spatially Enabling Government, Hossein Mohammadi

Capter 28 Seamless SDI Model to Facilitate a Spatially Enabled Society, Sheelan Vaez

Capter 29 The Role of Urban Planning and Local SDI Development in a Spatially Enabled Government, Faisal Qureishi

Capter 30 Spatial Enablement Current Activities and Future Directions, Abbas Rajabifard, Jude Wallace and Andrew Binns

Part 3- Career of Prof Ian Williamson

Historical Moments in Geomatics, Arnold Bregt and Joep Crompvoets

Message from John McLaughlin

Research Contribution of Professor Ian Williamson