The boundary concept: land management opportunities for sustainabel development provided by the Cadastre 2014 approach
Kaufmann, Jurg
Cadastral systems served traditionally as a tool for land administration and land management. They normally followed the boundary concept. The modern technologies allow it, to enlarge the content of the cadastral systems by further information documenting besides the property rights all legal arrangements creating impacts on land. The conditions and procedures for such modern cadastral systems were outlined in the FIG publication 'Cadastre 2014 - A Vision for a Future Cadastral System' published at the FIG Congress 1998 in Brighton (UK). Modern cadastral systems can serve much better as a basis for land management, which in fact is the rearrangement of boundaries defining rights and restrictions concerning land. The purpose of land management can therefore be defined much broader in the future. Land management methods based on modern cadastral systems which give a reliable and complete picture on the legal situation of land can be used to resolve problems in the fields of spatial planning, environment protection, land use conflicts, agricultural development, energy and resource management, social problems resulting from illegal land occupation and the parallelism of formal and informal right systems and even ethnic and territorial conflicts. They can become the key tool for a sound sustainable development. The paper gives an overview on the legal preconditions, which are well developed in Switzerland and it outlines the new opportunities.
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