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ANNOUNCEMENT
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LAND TENURE AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Orlando, Florida
November 13-15, 1996
 
This conference will provide an international forum for discussing current
land tenure and land administration initiatives in emerging nations and
regional economies.  The first day of the conference will deal with
economic, legal and equity issues surrounding land policy. It will also
include a discussion of land tenure issues relating to indigenous rights,
privatization of land and its resources, formal versus informal and
customary land tenure systems, and the environment. The second and third
days of the conference will focus on institutional and technical issues and
address strategies in land administration. Topics covered include
identifying critical project design parameters, reforming existing cadastre
and land registration systems, promoting community-level solutions, the
role of information system technologies, and decentralization of land
administration institutions.
 
For more information on the conference themes, conference format, schedule
of talks and sessions, abstracts of the talks, conference sponsors, and
registration information, please see
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/Landtenure/conference.htm
 
For a hard copy of the conference brochure and registration information,
contact Professor Grenville Barnes, Geomatics Program, Department of Civil
Engineering, 345 Weil Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,
32611. Fax: (352) 392-4957, Tel: (352) 392-4998, EMail: [log in to unmask]
 
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Harlan J. Onsrud, Chair
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Scientist, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
5711 Boardman Hall, Rm. 348
University of Maine
Orono, Maine  04469-5711
Phone (207) 581-2175
FAX (207)581-2206
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.spatial.maine.edu