Beschreibung:
Modernizing American Land Records: Order Upon Chaos shows how geospatial technology collects, manages, analyzes, represents, and distributes land record data, including information about the nature of property rights.
Modernizing American Land Records: Order upon Chaos presents a design for a modern American Land Records System (ALRS) that provides material about both the nature and extent of land interests. This book discusses the history of American land concepts, land governance, and land records systems and their use. These institutional aspects are considered along with the nature and extent of location-oriented land data systems such as geographic and land information systems (GIS/LIS). The institutional and technical aspects are brought together in the design of a modern ALRS that is consistent with current attitudes, practices, and technological development.
Preface Acknowledgments About the authors Part I Introduction and problems Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Problems created by chaotic land records Part II History of land, land records, and land governance in America Chapter 3 Land in America Chapter 4 Land records in America Chapter 5 Land governance in America Part III Solutions, actions, and prospects Chapter 6 An American land records system (ALRS) Chapter 7 Incentives, barriers, and prospects Chapter 8 Actions Glossary References Index