Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the authors
  • Part I Introduction and problems
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 A land records and information perspective
  • 1.2 A land records vision
  • 1.3 Land use and land records
  • 1.4 Scope and context for a modern American land records and information system
  • 1.5 Actors and their roles
  • 1.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Problems created by chaotic land records
  • 2.1 Examples of land record problems and their solutions
  • 2.2 The nature and scope of the problems
  • 2.3 A caveat about long-established land records institutions2.4 Challenge
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • Part II History of land, land records, and land governance in America
  • Chapter 3 Land in America
  • 3.1 Precolonial and colonial land concepts
  • 3.2 Postcolonial America
  • 3.3 The impact of nineteenth-century industrial development
  • 3.4 After the American Civil War
  • 3.5 Science and changing land concepts
  • 3.6 Twentieth-century land concepts
  • 3.7 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Land records in America
  • 4.1 Land records in colonial America
  • 4.2 Postcolonial America4.3 Impact of the Industrial Revolution on land records
  • 4.4 After the Civil War
  • 4.5 The influence of twentieth-century science
  • 4.6 Land records in the late twentieth century
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Land governance in America
  • 5.1 Origins and sustenance of American land governance attitudes and practices
  • 5.2 Public administration
  • 5.3 Land administration
  • 5.4 The importance of local government and local land records in land governance
  • 5.5 Administrative procedures and land governance
  • 5.6 Open government, open records, and participatory governance5.7 Conclusion
  • Part III Solutions, actions, and prospects
  • Chapter 6 An American land records system (ALRS)
  • 6.1 Perspectives on an ALRS
  • 6.2 A caveat about modern land records systems and multipurpose cadastres
  • 6.3 Ingredients of a modern land records system
  • 6.4 Attributes of a modern American land records system
  • 6.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 Incentives, barriers, and prospects
  • 7.1 The economics of information
  • 7.2 The economics of land records systems
  • 7.3 Benefits of investments in land records for planning and management7.4 Funding modernization
  • 7.5 The nature of change
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 Actions
  • 8.1 Role of an American land records system (ALRS)
  • 8.2 Specific actions
  • 8.3 Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • Back cover