451-418/607 Land Administration
Syllabus - 2008
| Week | DATE | TUESDAYS 9AM – 11AM Topic (Lecturer) |
DATE | THURSDAYS 9AM – 11AM Topic (Lecturer) |
| 1 | 04 Mar |
Subject outline, Subject requirements and Introduction to assignments. (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard) Understanding people to land relationships Meaning of land, rights, restrictions and responsibilities, global drivers. (Professor Ian Williamson) |
06 Mar | The land admin definition and evolution Evolution of land administration systems (LAS) and land administration infrastructure. (Ms Jude Wallace) Cadastral concept and principles Introducing the 'FIG statement on the cadastre' and the 'Cadastral Concept'. (Professor Ian Williamson) |
| 2 | 11 Mar | Ten land administration statements and Introduction to the land administration toolbox Key set of principles for land administration system design. (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard/ Ms Jude Wallace) |
13 Mar | The role of governance in spatially enabled Land Administration Systems - governance definitions, evolution and contexts, governance as an enabler in distributed systems, scope, key tasks and critical challenges of governance in distributed information systems. (Mr Paul Box) |
| 3 | 18 Mar | Tools 1 and 2: Land and Legal policy principles Introduction to land policy, international drivers in land administration : sustainable development, tenure security, gender equity, poverty alleviation, food security, emergency management, accuracy, interoperability, globalisation, localisation, eGovernment. o verview of legal systems and legal infrastructure in relation to land, separation of powers, federation, statutes, regulations, national codes, legislative overload. (Ms Jude Wallace) |
20 Mar
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Introduction to major assignments. Good goverance, government structures (national, state, local), decentralisation, local empowerment, NGOs, banks, other international bodies . Key international documents: Bathurst and Bogor Declarations, FIG Cadastre Statement, Cadastre 2014, UN-ECE LA Guidelines. (Ms Jude Wallace) |
21-30 |
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| 4 | 01 Apr | Tool 4: Cadastral mapping and boundary options and Technical surveying and mapping and boundary options. (Professor Ian Williamson) |
03 Apr | Tool 5: Tenure and registration systems Introduction to the concept of tenure, differences between tenure typologies and differences between system of registration (verbal, titles, deeds, registry, insurance, pro poor tools). (Ms Jude Wallace) |
| 5 | 8 Apr | Tool 6: ICT options for Land Administration Introduction to ICT, data management, data delivery , enterpirse facilitator (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard/Mr Mohsen Kalantari) |
10 Apr | Process of Land Administration and e-Land Administration Introduction to land administration processes and e-Land administration concept. (Mr Mohsen Kalantari) |
| 6 | 15 Apr |
Distinction between old and new land law; boundary repair by adverse possession or statutory encroachment and single, national, uniform system for ALL Australia (Dr. Malcolm Park) |
17 Apr | Land and Marine administration,and SDI and cadastres in the marine environment. Integrated management of land and marine environments and introduction to seamless SDI. (Mr Andrew Binns and Ms Sheelan Vaez) |
| 7 | 22 Apr | Data Integration and Land administration Integration of the built and natural environment information (Mr Hossein Mohammadi) |
24 Apr | Tool 7: Human resource and capacity building principles Education, training spatial and surveying professionals in developing and developed countries. (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard)
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| 8 | 29 Apr | Land rights, restrictions and responsibilities Managing new interests in land (Mr Rohan Bennett) |
01 May | Mini - Assignment Report and Presentation |
| 9 | 06 May | Benchmarking, monitoring and evaluating Monitoring land administration systems. DCDBs and cadastral data models, integration of digital spatial information, comparing cadastral models, the problem of interoperability and tools for achieving interoperability. (Mr Mohsen Kalantari) |
08 May | Building land markets and complex commodities Stages of development, market based instruments (Ms Jude Wallace) |
| 10 | 13 May | Case Study: Victoria's cadastral system The Victorian cadastral survey system and role of licensed land surveyors in the Victorian land administration system. (Surveyor General of Vic., DSE, Mr John Tulloch) Case Study: Victoria's property valuation system Why property valuation is undertaken and how geomatics fits in. (Manager, Client Valuations, Valuer-General Victoria - Mr Simon Adcock) |
15 May | Case Study : Victoria's registration systems Australia has 8 Torrens systems. Victoria's is unique. Come along and be dazzled. (Ms Jude Wallace) Case Study: Victoria's Spatial Data Infrastructure Spatial Information Infrastructure, organisations, information layers, recent projects. (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard) |
| 11 | 20 May | PRESENTATIONS |
22 May | PRESENTATIONS |
| 12 | 27 May | PRESENTATIONS |
29 May | Subject review Student Q&A session and discuss student feedback (A/Prof Abbas Rajabifard/Ms Jude Wallace/Mr Mohsen Kalantari) |
| 02 June - 06 June Swot Vac Period | ||||
| 09 June - 27 June Exam Period | ||||