Themes and Topics

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Coastal Areas and Land Administration – Building the Capacity has been selected to the theme of the 6th FIG Regional Conference. This theme that is very important for the Latin American region is divided in three sub-themes: coastal areas, land management and capacity building. One plenary session is dedicated to each of these main topics.

The keynote speakers are selected from internationally well-known experts representing international and regional partners and FIG expertise.

The sub-themes are divided into following topics:

Coastal areas:

  • Reference frameworks and GNSS for mapping and nautical charting

  • Identifying the land/sea interface

  • Tools for spatial information management

  • Planning methodologies

  • Coastal development design

  • EIA procedures

  • Water resource management

  • Integrated and pro-poor planning approaches

  • Good governance, empowerment of local government

  • Empowerment of the poor

Land administration:

  • Integration of topographic mapping, cadastre, and land registration

  • Cadastral and land registration procedures

  • Multipurpose cadastre

  • Spatially enabled government

  • Marine cadastre and land/marine interface

  • Land valuation and taxation

  • Pro-poor land management

  • WB projects

  • IDB projects

  • UN-Habitat and FAO projects

  • PAIGH perspective

Capacity building:

  • Educational standards and curricula development

  • Accreditation, licensing, and mutual recognition

  • Professional standards and ethics

  • CPD programs

  • Capacity building at social, institutional and individual level.

As outcome from the conference the organisers have decided to produce an FIG publication on “Methodologies for Pro-Poor Coastal Zone Management”.

Abstracts are requested on any of the above mentioned topics. All ten FIG commissions are committed to participate in this regional conference, however this time the topics are combined to reflect responses to the conference theme.

The conference will be held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation. Abstracts are requested in English (and possible also in Spanish) while full papers can be provided in either English or Spanish. By request of the author the paper can be submitted through peer-review procedure or as normal conference paper.