Modernizing American land records : order upon chaos/ Earl F. Epstein, Bernard J. Niemann Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Earl F., author.

Niemann, Bernard J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--United States--History.

Land use.

Land use--United States--Data processing.

Land use--Information services.

Land tenure--United States.

Land tenure.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Land use.

Land tenure--Government policy.

History.

United States.

Land tenure--Government policy--United States.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Land use--United States.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Geographic information systems--United States.

Geographic information systems.

Physical Description:

xix, 194 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Redlands, California : Esri Press, 2014.

Summary:

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. Modernizing American Land Records is a valuable resource for those who have a role and stake in smart land planning and management. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction and problems 1

Chapter 1 Introduction 3

1.1 A land records and information perspective 3

1.2 A land records vision 5

1.3 Land use and land records 7

1.4 Scope and context for a modern American land records and information system 8

1.5 Actors and their roles 10

1.6 Conclusion 13

Chapter 2 Problems created by chaotic land records 15

2.1 Examples of land record problems and their solutions 16

2.2 The nature and scope of the problems 40

2.3 A caveat about long-established land records institutions 41

2.4 Challenge 42

2.5 Conclusion 43

Part II History of land, land records, and land governance in America 47

Chapter 3 Land in America 49

3.1 Precolonial and colonial land concepts 51

3.2 Postcolonial America 53

3.3 The impact of nineteenth-century industrial development 55

3.4 After the American Civil War 56

3.5 Science and changing land concepts 57

3.6 Twentieth-century land concepts 58

3.7 Conclusion 63

Chapter 4 Land records in America 87

4.1 Land records in colonial America 67

4.2 Postcolonial America 69

4.3 Impact of the Industrial Revolution on land records 71

4.4 After the Civil War 72

4.5 The influence of twentieth-century science 73

4.6 Land records in the late twentieth century 75

4.7 Conclusion 81

Chapter 5 Land governance in America 89

5.1 Origins and sustenance of American land governance attitudes and practices 90

5.2 Public administration 92

5.3 Land administration 93

5.4 The importance of local government and local land records in land governance 94

5.5 Administrative procedures and land governance 95

5.6 Open government, open records, and participatory governance 97

5.7 Conclusion 99

Part III Solutions, actions, and prospects 103

Chapter 6 An American land records system (ALRS) 105

6.1 Perspectives on an ALRS 107

6.2 A caveat about modern land records systems and multipurpose cadastres 109

6.3 Ingredients of a modern land records system 110

6.4 Attributes of a modern American land records system 114

6.5 Conclusion 140

Chapter 7 Incentives, barriers, and prospects 143

7.1 The economics of information 143

7.2 The economics of land records systems 144

7.3 Benefits of investments in land records for planning and management 146

7.4 Funding modernization 154

7.5 The nature of change 156

7.6 Conclusion 160

Chapter 8 Actions 163

8.1 Role of an American land records system (ALRS) 165

8.2 Specific actions 166

8.3 Conclusion 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589483040

1589483049

OCLC:

878812700