FIG Commission 8
- Spatial planning and development
Working Group 8.4
Land policy instruments for spatial development
Introduction
Land, being a limited resource, requires some form of land management to
foster a sustainable development. Demand for land, for instance for food
production, housing, nature conservation, or infrastructure, surpasses
supply. Moreover, supply of appropriate land does not necessarily meet
demands regarding its spatial distribution. This working group focuses on
international available land policy instruments that may support
stakeholders, mostly governments, upon the implementation of spatial
policies and spatial redistribution of land to foster a sustainable spatial
development.
Policy Issues
Analyse available land policy instrumentation, such as land
banking, expropriation, land consolidation, land readjustment,
expropriation, pre-emption rights to implement spatial objectives
for a sustainable development.
Foster the dissemination of international practice of land
policy instruments and their applications.
Establish and distribute a generic legislative framework for
land consolidation.
Develop and describe a generic process for land consolidation to
foster the development of a generic and modifiable open source GIS
tool to support the implementation of land consolidation in various
countries.
Chair
Rosy Liao Rong, People’s Republic of China
rosyliao[at]outlook.com
Dr. Morten Hartvigsen, Hungary
morten.hartvigsen[at]fao.org
Prof. dr. Walter de Vries, Germany
wt.de-vries[at]tum.de
Mr. Rodrigue Bazame, Turkey
Rodrigue.Bazame[at]ankara.edu.tr
What we are working on -
Joint commission 8 & LANDNET meeting preferably in 2019
and 2021
Special papers at FIG working weeks or congress
Working paper on best practices of land policy tools
across Europe & Central Asia & worldwide
What's New
Focus: Available policy instruments that support the implementation
of spatial policies or spatial redistribution of land (resources, land
use or rights) to foster sustainable spatial development.
The successful joint LANDNET/commission 8 workshop in 2019 was held in
Santiago de Compostela (see chapter 4). Activities of the working group take
shape around two themes: 1) discussing the possibility for a generic tool
for land consolidation and 2) a joint FIG / FAO publication about land
consolidation practice.
In preparation of the FIG Working Week in Amsterdam, three joint FAO-FIG sessions
will be organized that link to the activities of working group 8.4.
