FIG President Stig Enemark attends International Seminar on
Land Management
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 5-6 April 2008
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Deputy Minister for Land and Surveying Dr. Al Ruwaished, FIG
President Prof. Stig Enemark, and Assistant Deputy Minister
for Land and Surveying Muhammad Alrajhi who was hosting the
meeting. |
FIG President Stig Enemark attended the International Seminar on
Land Management at the Ministry for Municipal and Rural Affairs, Deputy
Ministry for Land and Surveying, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 5-6 April
2008.
The focus of the conference was to contribute to the development of basic
land policy principles for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The land information
policies and actual databases are already well developed under the Deputy
Ministry of Land and Surveying; and the perspectives for developing a full
land management system including a modern approach to land tenure, land
valuation, and land use control are currently debated.
The seminar included a range of presentations from invited experts such
as Prof. Holger Magel, Honorary President of FIG; Prof. Gottfried
Konecny; Prof. Hans Knoop (all three from Germany), and Prof.
Mushtaq Hussain from Fresno University, California, USA. The meeting
concluded in a range of recommendations that the Ministry will consider and
take forward.
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