Governance and space : the role of civil registers and registers of public and private land as conditions for development
Meijere, Johan C de & Mabel Alvarez de Lopez
Governance is the interaction of State, Private Sector and Civil Society in the daily practice of production, consumption, movement, recreation and all other activities which occur in a society. When processes lead to imbalances, Policies will try to restore a degree of equity. All societal processes occur in Space whereby space is Land, the Environment and the experience which people have while doing something somewhere. In urban environments the Public Space plays a very important role to keep the city an economic and social healthy environment. Private properties and their development depend heavily on the quality of the public space. The Land Administration community and Global Programs tend to stress the formalization of private property as a means to combat poverty and upgrade slums in developing countries. This paper concludes that securing civil rights through adequate civil registers and the formalizationn of the de facto pubic land and public space, especially in urban areas, is more urgent than land tenure formalization of private plots.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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