Title Modernizing American land records : order upon chaos / Earl F. Epstein, Bernard J. Niemann Jr

Edition First edition Published Redlands, California : Esri Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 194 pages .) Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Land use -- United States -- History Land use -- United States -- Data processing Land use -- Information services Land tenure -- United States Land tenure -- Government policy -- United States Information storage and retrieval systems -- Land use -- United States Geographic information systems -- United States Information storage and retrieval systems -- Land use. Geographic information systems Information storage and retrieval systems -- Land use Land tenure Land tenure -- Government policy Land use Land use -- Data processing Land use -- Information services United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Niemann, Bernard J., author ISBN 1589483952 9781589483958 9781322077215 1322077215 9781589483750 1589483758

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