Dimo Todorovski

University of Twente | UT · Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM)

Land administration is established to manage the people-to-land relationship. However, it is believed that 70% of the land in developing countries is unregistered. In the case of Ecuador, the government has an ambitious strategy to implement a national cadaster on the full territory in a short time period. Therefore, the objective of this study was...

Networks of academic and higher education institutions are proven platforms for knowledge sharing and experiences in education exchange. During the International Workshop LALA LADM+, 5-9 November 2018 in Quito Ecuador, organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE (ESPE University) Ecuador and Kadaster International together with Faculty ITC...

Land administration is one of the pillars of economic development and poverty reduction. Land registration and cadastres make up an important part of land administration. In Brazil, recent initiatives attempt to build an efficient land administration to overcome its deficiencies built from a history of disorderly occupation and with many specificit...

In conflict situations, many people are displaced because of hostility and arms in the area. Displaced people are forced to leave behind their properties, and this in turn interrupts the relationship between people and their land. The emergency period in particular has been identified as a weak point in the humanitarian response to land issues in p...

An essential component of every land administration system are the land records. These records contain information about ownership, value and use of land. Conflict and post-conflict contexts, both in literature and in practice, have shown that land administration systems are mostly affected by the loss of land records and staff. Post-conflict conte...

The aim of this paper is to explore current land administration situation in Ecuador and identify opportunities for fit-for-purpose (FFP) land administration approach that could improve the land administration functions for the country and its citizens. In this paper, initially literature about land administration, guidelines to improve and assessm...

Less than a quarter of the countries in the world maintain a complete land administration system. Conventional land titling programs appear incapable of bridging the gap; they fail to support the provision of a minimum form of land tenure security – for all the citizens, including vulnerable ones. Land administration is one of six specializations w...

Global challenges affecting and informing modern land administration systems include poverty reduction, and the challenges related to food and water insecurity, the growth of informal settlements and slums, climate change and natural disasters. However, land administration must adapt to support these global challenges in a way that is consistent wi...

The most serious concerns in armed conflicts are human casualties, destroyed infrastructure and houses, and displacement of populations. Destruction and displacement have a big influence on land and property-related issues during, and specifically in the aftermath of, a conflict (Unruh & Williams, 2013). Land issues grow in complexity immediately a...

Conflicts are greatest obstacles to global growth and human development. The most serious concerns from conflicts nowadays are: death, injury, destroyed infrastructure and houses, and displacement. Conflict-related destruction and displacement have the big impact on land, its administration and management. This is specifically a case at the end of...

In earlier research in the area of land administration in conflict and post-conflict contexts the relation between land administration and state building was recognised. This paper aims at increasing the understanding of this relation. Available literature is explored to learn more about the concepts of state building, and land and its administrati...

Land and its administration are always negatively affected during conflicts and in post-conflict contexts. This has been confirmed both in the literature and in practice. This research has shown that if land and its administration are neglected or not properly addressed after the end of a conflict, they can be a cause for a renewed armed conflict a...

This paper aims at increasing the understanding of the relation between land administration and state building in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Available literature is explored to learn more about the concepts of state building, and land and its administration in post-conflict contexts. The most suitable methodology to increase the understan...

Land and its administration are always negatively affected during conflicts and in post-conflict periods. If land and its administration are neglected or not properly addressed after the end of a conflict, they can be a cause for a renewed armed conflict and an obstacle in the rebuilding of a post-conflict society. This paper aims at identifying in...

Conflict and land are tied in a complex relation. This relation has various characteristics before, during the armed conflict, and in post-conflict contexts. Land and other resources are many times seen as factors for eruption of violent conflicts, in some circumstances influence the duration and give specific characteristics to the conflict. Land...

Land and its administration are always negatively affected during conflicts and in post-conflict contexts. This has been confirmed both in the literature and in practice. This research has shown that if land and its administration are neglected or not properly addressed after the end of a conflict, they can be a cause for a renewed armed conflict a...

This chapter conceptualizes displacement and post conflict land administration, and evaluates how land administration is handled in emergency, early recovery and reconstruction periods of conflict situations. Evidence from post-conflict Rwanda, whose government envisaged good land governance as a contributor of sustainable peace and security, infor...

New thinking on post-conflict state building argues that land administration has a fundamental role to play. This relation is explored empirically through evaluating the post-conflict state building process in Rwanda. Rwanda witnessed violent conflicts in 1959 and in 1994. These conflicts resulted in mass displacement of population. Tackling issues...

Conflicts are a huge obstacle to global growth and sustainable development. The most serious concerns from conflicts nowadays are: death, injury, destroyed infrastructure and houses, and displacement. Land and its administration are always negatively affected by conflict; if neglected or not properly addressed in post-conflict contexts they could b...

There is a growing recognition that land administration has a fundamental role to play in the post-conflict contexts. This paper observes land administration in the broader post-conflict state building in the case of Timor-Leste. The history of Timor-Leste witnesses many conflicts and the violence in the human rights during the period 1974-1999. Es...

This study addresses the challenges that land administration has faced in the post-conflict period, the current status of land administration and the role of the land administration as a facilitator of the overall process of post-conflict state building in the case of Mozambique. Mozambique suffered from a civil war, known as 16 years of war, which...

There is a very specific correlation between land and conflict; they meet each other on every point of the cycle of the armed conflict and in the post-conflict period. Land was identified as a critical gap in international response capacities and awareness about the importance of addressing the housing land and property issues in the emergency and...

There is a very specific correlation between land and conflict; they meet each other on every point of the cycle of the armed conflict and in the post-conflict period. Although land was identified as a critical gap in international response capacities and the awareness about the vital importance of addressing the housing land and property issues wi...

For the developed European nations the problem today may be how to make their geo-information applicable in a much more efficient way, share their geo-information via appropriately developed National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) and implementation of the INSPIRE Directive adopted by European Commission. In the developing EU candidate countri...

The causes for armed conflict and widespread violence are many. In some cases land is one of the factors and sometimes land is a major cause for the conflict. The land and land related issues are increasingly recognized by the international community as important element where all conflict activities take place before, during and after the conflict...

For most developed nations the problem today may be how to make their geo-information applicable in a much more efficient way, share the geo-information via appropriately developed National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI). In developing world, on contrary, the problems start with making geo-information available. At the same time these countrie...

The main theme of the Conference was the development and use of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI’s) and all their aspects - technology, criteria and standards for organizing and sharing spatial data. The realization of the European INSPIRE directive in the countries of South East Europe was expected to be an important part of the conference. A Spa...

SUMMARY Countries that have sustainable development and application of the principles of 'good governance' in perspective, sooner or later start developing strategies for development and implementation of National spatial data infrastructure (NSDI). In the Republic of Macedonia (RM) the 'need' for development of NSDI should be accepted and observed...

SUMMARY The importance of effective performance of the cadastral and land registration organizations in support of good governance and economical development of the societies is well recognised internationally. The processes of transition and growth of the developing countries, expansion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and moder...

Business strategic plan of the State Authority for Geodetic Works (SAGW) followed by three sub strategies aims to trace the safety and sustainable path for better future of the institution, which means improvement of its geodetic, cartographic and cadastral services. Achievement of main business strategic goals of SAGW were supported by preparing o...

Increasing market needs and development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are pushing educational organisations towards continuous development and implementation of the new innovative learning methods in order to meet the challenging user requirements. Educational organisations should be one step ahead then the current develop...