FIG Commission 1
- Professional Standards and Practice
Working Group 1.3
International Boundary Settlement and Demarcation
Background
The Working Group will continue the work of Working Group 1.4
initiated and led by Haim Srebo, in the 2011-14 Work Plan, which led to
the FIG Publication 59:
International Boundary Making, and will continue the work of Working
Group 1.3 led by Don Grant in the 2015-18 Work Plan to publish a
supplementary to FIG Publication 59 dealing with international
boundaries on unstable ground.
Policy Issues
To deal with theoretical, methodological, legal aspects and analysis
of practical cases in international and national boundaries.
To investigate and report on the long-term definition, delineation,
demarcation, documentation, maintenance, recovery and stability of
international land and maritime boundaries.
To liaise with FIG Commissions 4 and 7 on matters of common interest.
During the FIG e-Working Week the following session was held:
Introduce FIG 76 Publication -
International Boundaries on Unstable Ground Chair: Dr. Haim Srebro, Israel and Mr. Bill Robertson, New Zealand To introduce the publication and discuss with the audience the way forward on the work of the working group to further promote and achieve the aim of SDG No.16 on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Accepted boundaries are very important for peace making and the maintenance of peace, it is also an important element the current UN-GGIM Policy and Legal Frameworks.
Haim Srebro (Israel): Unstable International Boundaries and FIG Publication NO 76 (11068) [abstract] [paper] [handouts] [video]
Following the FIG Publication 59 International
Boundary Making edited by Haim Srebro, which was produced through
Commission 1 in 2013, Haim and his Working Group members Vincent
Belgrave, Andrea Cantile, Donald Grant and William A. Robertson, who
are all highly qualified experts and practitioners in ‘boundary
marking’, published the FIG 76 International
Boundaries on Unstable Ground through Commission 1 in 2020.
There had been good discussions on topics about the centre of valley
versus thalweg: revisitig the Isreal-Jordan Aravah Boundary, and about
river boundaries: the influence of changes in the Jordan and Yarmuk
Rivers on the International and Cadastral Boundaries at the FIG Working
Week 2019 in Hanoi. Haim Srebro and his Working Group members Don Grant
from RMIT University Melbourne, Bill Robertson and Vince Belgrave from
New Zealand and Andrea Cantile from Italy, have been preparing a
follow-up publication to FIG Publication 59 International Boundary
Making edited by Haim Srebro, which was produced through Commission 1 in
2013. This new volume is an addendum to # 59 regarding international
boundaries on unstable ground. It is expected to be published before the
end of 2020.
