Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets II

Dear Colleagues,

In 2020, a Special Issue entitled "Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets" was launched, in which 11 papers were published. In this Special Issue, we invited papers focusing on the following:

1. Modern trends in designing and building efficient land administration systems that provide secure tenure for all and support the development of sustainable real estate markets;
2. Good practice, common challenges, and opportunities in the management of land.

In contrast to the first edition, we found that the economic and social value of cadastre cannot be overstated.

Cadastre can impact economic growth through its effect on a state's capacity to tax and provide public goods. [1]  It also enables right holders to acquire access to credit and improve their living conditions, and it supports the development of efficient land markets, which can contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction.

It also enables legal access to land and protects land tenure. It reduces conflict over land, minimizes land disputes and legally empowers the right holders against land grabbing and evictions without compensation or resettlement.

Apart from improving tenure security and boosting economic growth, cadastre can benefit society in a variety of ways. It helps advance social justice and equity, enable climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, facilitate environmental protection and disaster risk reduction and allow for efficient management.

It also supports the development of smart cities and digital twins and provides a large-scale geospatial infrastructure that may support the achievement of the majority of the SDGs. The “UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030” recognizes the social, economic, and environmental value of cadastres, which can serve multiple purposes in society; however, almost 70% of land remains unregistered globally and there is an urgent need for the compilation of cadastral surveys in various countries. As there is no unified model for a methodology to follow, and taking into account the lack of professionals in this field, the required costs and time for such cadastral surveys are large. Additionally, the design should be tailored to the capacity and the needs of people and their relationship to land in order to support tenure security for all. [2] 

For this reason, we are launching a second edition of this Special Issue. We encourage authors to submit contributions in the following priority areas to this Special Issue of Land:

• New approaches to supporting modern trends of efficient land administration systems;
• Policy and strategy development processes in land administration and land management on a national scale;
• Worldwide comparative studies of the implementation of cadastre;
• The societal and/or economic benefits of integrating informal constructions into cadastre;
• The economic impact of geospatial (cadastral) data for supporting all SDGs;
• Security of land tenure against natural and human-induced disasters.

References

[1] D’Arcy, M., Nistotskaya, M., & Olsson, O. Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel. © World Bank. 2023. https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/59e66eae64080508353a3ce3c82d2053-0050022023/original/cadaster-march9-2023.pdf.

[2] Apostolopoulos, K.; Potsiou, C. How to Improve Quality of Crowdsourced Cadastral Surveys. Land 2022, 11, 1642. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101642.

Prof. Dr. Chryssy Potsiou
Dr. Gerhard Navratil
Guest Editors

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