The Use of the Cadastral Information for Environmental Issues

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• The Use of the Cadastral Information for
  Environmental Issues
• Jarmo Ratia
• Director General
• National Land Survey of Finland
• President of the GSDI
• Seminar on Cadastre as Tool of Social
  Cohesion in Latin America and Europe
• Lisbon (Portugal), 2930 November 2007

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Cadastres

• record certain human interests, both public and
  private, regarding each area of land

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Environment

• natural environment
• built environment
• social environment
• environmental policy
• environmental protection
• sustainable development

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Environmental issues Environmental
protection Sustainable development
Cadastre
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does a good cadastre promote sustainable
development?

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Cadastres importance ?

• in UN and EU programmes and declarations
• in INSPIRE

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cadastres importance?

• Hernando de Soto The Missing Ingredient 1993
• cadastres essential part of the development
• but rather a consequence than a cause
• cadastres not solution to all problems.

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Conlusions importance of cadastre

• in fostering sustainable development and economic
  growth
• as bases for LIS and GIS (e.g. withenvironmental
  data) systems
• as an important component of societys Basic Data
  Infrastructure serving the environmental
  management

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Societys Basic Data Infrastructure
Person related databases
LIS
GISs
Land Register
Persons
Buildings Dwellings
CADASTRE
Plans Restrictions
Enterprises
Person ID
Position
Enterprise related databases
Enterprise ID
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Conlusions cadastres in environmental
management

• important parts of SDI systems that produce
  information crucial to decision makers in
  environmental management
• land-use planning
• informing the land-owners

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does a good cadastre promote sustainable
development? Sustainable development and good
environmental management is not possible without
a modern cadastre.