Land administration and cadastral trends: a framework for re-engineering

This is a pre-print of an article published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2001 published by Elsevier. This version is reproduced under the journals author licence agreement. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01989715This paper reviews the need for a new land administration vision that takes a more integrated approach rather than the historic fragmented approach and examines change management of land administration and cadastral systems in the context of global drivers of change. This results in the development of a framework for re-engineering land administration systems. After discussing a land administration vision the paper reviews trends and issues in the context of this framework. While the paper discusses global issues and trends, the paper concentrates on the experiences and ongoing land administration research of the authors’ and their colleagues with a focus on Australia