Exploring 3D Cadastres in India: Evaluating the Potential for Land Planning, Development and Management in Delhi

Urbanization and the trend towards complex infrastructure development has challenged the traditional two dimensional cadastral representations used in conventional land administration. Three dimensional representations, using three dimensional geometric primitives, are argued to serve as the future basis upon which to define rights, restrictions...

Modelling Brazilian Indigenous Tribes Land Rights with ISO 19152 LADM

The issue of indigenous land rights is a particularly pressing political and socio-economical issue in contemporaneous Brazil. Violent land disputes between non-indigenous land ownership and indigenous with overlapping claims to land rights is a complex problem. It has been caused by the bureaucratic and slow process of land adjudication that...

Spatial dimensions of land administration and user rights over groundwater: Case study of Kerala, India vs. Coca Cola

Supporting the management of rights related to groundwater based on input from hydrogeology software is contributing to bridging the gap between the technical and administrative aspects of groundwater management. The research reported herein is focused on a specific example (or ‘use case’ in UML terminology), resulting from a court action by...

Groundwater management in land administration: A spatio-temporal perspective

Although the use of land and water is intertwined, specifics for groundwater management are not effectively dealt with in the laws and other institutional mechanisms related to land. Provisions for groundwater aspects in land management are there, but with a focus on the land itself. Land rights and restrictions are more or less static, lacking...