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Property registration in Albania : an information management issue
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)This paper presents the plans being made in Albania to establish an immovable property registration system in the most efficient way. It considers not only technically modern equipment and computer-related problems but ... -
Aerial photography and parcel mapping for immovable property registration in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)Planimetric map production is a basic graphic documentation element of the Immovable Property Registration System in Albania and is one of the main objectives of the Land Market Action Plan. This paper focuses on the ... -
Agricultural land protection policy for Albania : lessons from Western Europe, North America and Japan
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)This report has been prepared as one effort to assist the Albanian government in formulating a policy approach appropriate to the conditions and culture of their country. The goal of this report is to examine the approach ... -
Albanian Law on City Planning : critical summary of its major provisions
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)This paper includes, as an annex, Law No. 7693, "On Urban Planning," from the People's Assembly of the Republic of Albania. Conceptually, this law has five major parts: (1) planning generally, (2) getting construction ... -
Surveying and mapping strategy for supporting the emerging land market in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)Moving toward a market-oriented economy involves the development of various types of markets. One of the first steps of the transition in Albania has been the property privatization process, that is, the transformation of ... -
Proposal to study economic and environmental benefits of reducing soil erosion in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)Soil erosion and associated nonpoint pollution are critical problems affecting the economic welfare, food security, and public health of Albania. Nearly 60 million tons of sediment are deposited by Albanian rivers into the ... -
Albanian immovable property registration system : review of legislation
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)The registration system of immovable property in Albania was chosen for four basic reasons: (1) it protects the right of immovable property owners by providing strong and reliable evidence about ownership and other interests ... -
An insider's view on establishing an immovable property registration system in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)As will become clear in this article, the author's position shifts from pessimist to optimist as this writing progresses. The first section presents some of the difficulties that Albania is experiencing with respect to the ... -
Albanian Land Market Action Plan : purposes, achievements, lessons
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)The transition in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States from command to market-oriented economies requires new land market institutions and policies. Once privatization of land has moved far enough to ... -
Preparation of action plan for protection of land in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)The degradation of Albania's land resources is a serious impediment to the welfare of the people of Albania as well as that of future generations. Resolving land degradation requires the concerted action of governmental ... -
Real estate professionals and the immovable property market in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997)The experience of other Eastern and Central European countries would suggest that in Albania, as the market for real property develops, there should also be developments in services that support real property transactions. ... -
Indigenous land tenure and land use in Alaska : community impacts of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)Through the utilization of qualitative methods such as archival analysis, semi-structured interviewing, comparative and extended case studies, and observation, this paper closely examines two related Alaska Native communities. ... -
GPS methodology for cadastral surveying and mapping in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)This paper is a compilation of three reports written over the 1993-96 period in the development and testing of a cadastral surveying and mapping methodology to support land registration. The sections cover (1) fieldwork ... -
Land fragmentation and consolidation in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)The 1945 agrarian reform in Albania changed the distribution of landownership. The land of the largest landlords was distributed to 70,000 families who either did not own any land or owned very little. Since this agrarian ... -
Who owns natural resources in the United States and Canada?
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)Property rights are social definitions; they exist as long as the society is willing to enforce them. If enforcement is missing, they cease to exist. The reasons for changes might be market conditions, popular sentiments, ... -
Gender, ethnicity, and landed property in Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)Methods used to privatize state property attest to Albania's commitment to a democratic and egalitarian society: farmland was distributed to the households working on the ex-collectives and state farms, and housing was ... -
Liberal contracts, relational contracts and common property : Africa and the United States
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)The core thesis is that Western neoclassical economics and law (particularly Anglo-American) have a peculiar cultural history that biases Western-trained economists and lawyers against common property systems like those ... -
Peasant logic, agrarian policy, land mobility, and land markets in Mexico
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)Mexican rural reform has questioned the role of the peasantry and private national producers in agriculture. The reform followed a neoliberal paradigm for incorporating the nation into the global village. As part of a ... -
Immovable property markets in metropolitan Tirana, Albania
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)This paper uses information from three empirical studies to describe, after seven years of privatization and real estate market transactions, how the physical space of the city of Tirana is presently organized, and how ... -
Re-entering African-American farmers : recent trends and a policy rationale
(Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998)Today, there are only about 15,000 black farmers in the United States. Declining by 98 percent since 1920, black farmers have suffered losses attributable to public policy, economic pressures, and racial oppression. All ...