Perspectives on Urban Sustainability and the Evaluation of Geo-ICT for Land Governance, Diego Navarra, PhD. Presentation to the Working Party on Land Administration 2012, UNECE, London: http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/announcements/2012/unece-conference-2012

1. Perspectives on Urban Sustainability
and the Evaluation of Geo-ICT for
Land Governance
Diego Navarra, PhD
UNECE – WPLA Conference
Supporting Global Economic Recovery:
The Role of Land Registration Authorities
London 10-13th October 2012
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2. Likely Scenarios if Climate Change Continues
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3. Context
• Urban areas influence various types of global
environmental changes, affecting land use and
cover, biogeochemical cycles, hydrosystems and
biodiversity.
• Urban areas contribute significantly to climate
change (the world’s 20 large cities consume 80% of
the world energy with urban areas generating 80%
of the greenhouse gas emission worldwide).
• More than 1/3 of CO2 emissions within the EU are
directly caused by residential and commercial
buildings.
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4. Broad Urban Sustainability Evaluation Issues
(Environmental, Social, Economic)
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5. Nordic Case Studies on Urban Sustainability
• OULU – a smart arctic • Swedish SymbioCity
cleantech city Concept: there are potential
The City of Oulu is already a synergies in urban functions
leader in Finland in energy that can be combined for
efficient building increased efficiency and
construction and city profitability. A holistic
planning. Currently approach to urban planning
construction is one of the can save money, time and
biggest investment sectors
in Oulu; more than 90 per resources. If you treat the
cent of new houses use low urban functions as parts of
energy building principles. the same system 1+1 can
The goal is that all new easily add to more than 2.
houses will be passive
houses by 2015, using zero
energy building
principles, and carbon
neutral by 2020.
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6. Nordic Case Studies on Urban Sustainability
• Eco-efficient Tampere
Since the launch of the ECO2 • Sustainable urban transport in Denmark
project, the emphasis on climate Underlining the bicycle’s strong position in the
and energy issues in the city has Danish transport system is a deliberate
grown steadily. The eco-efficiency integration of cycling into transport policies
of new urban plans is assessed and urban planning by Danish
comprehensively and energy municipalities. Thus, cycling is an integral
system analyses in new areas are part of infrastructure development in cities
made. All new buildings in and towns with continuous investments in
Tampere have to be at least bicycle lanes and bicycle parking. The Danish
energy class A from the beginning Government has a clear ambition to further
of 2012. Finland’s first passive increase the use of bicycles. An ambitious
energy daycare centre started its cycling policy was launched in January 2009
operation in Tampere in the as part of a larger green transport
beginning of 2012. A new agreement.
information centre for energy
efficiency in construction and
housing was opened in 2011.
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7. Role & Significance of the Cadastre?
Source: Williamson, Enemark, Wallace, Rajabifard, 2010
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8. Measuring Urban Sustainability:
the Amsterdam Sustainability Index

9. GEO-ICT & Land Governance
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10. Evaluation of Geo-ICT for Land Governace
Inter-disciplinary Value for Public Sector Illustrative Geo-ICT
Perspectives View on geo-information Governance? Applications
Urban and regional SDSS for spatial planning and
decision making, GIS for
economics simulation of different types
public good which can be of land use, GIS based tool to
improve coherence between
used to discipline the spatial
spatial and environmental
structure of the urban Efficiency, effectiveness, policies, visualization of
economy sustainability different planning scenarios
Techno/legal/ standardisable, formal and LIS for zoning and spatial
quantitiave way to mediate planning decisions, future
managerial
landscape development, e-
spatial knowledge
land administration for
automation of land
registration process, provision
of digital land records,
electronic conveyancing
Efficiency, effectiveness, systems and electronic
legitimacy, privacy registration systems, SDI
Geographic and contingent, informal, GIS for land administration,
Information Systems qualitative and prone to SDI, E-Government and all the
manipulations Legitimacy, equity, above mentioned examples of
Sciences
sustainability Geo-ICT
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11. Evaluation Criteria and Performance Impact Issues
Urban and Spatial Economics Techno/Legal/Managerial Geographic Information Systems
Sciences
Evaluation Geo-ICT Evaluation Criteria Geo-ICT Evaluation Criteria Geo-ICT Performance
Criteria Performance Performance Impact
Impact Impact
Operational Data acquisition Legal, Spatial decision Institutional and Capabilities,
efficiency capability, data administrative and making involving organizational interactions,
storage economic decision public contexts orientations and value
capability, data making; aid for administration, distributions of Geo-ICT
accessibility, planning and land private sector and
citizens Interactions between Friendliness,
response time development
human agents in the transparency,
Support for efficient production of geo- availability of services,
Operational Adequacy of
personalized and
services relative and effective land information
effectiveness citizen-centered
to need, quality, markets
services and
specificity,
accessibility
availability Systematic
collection, updating, Development and use Input indicators, output
processing and of Geo-ICT indicators, usage
Program Quicker distribution of data indicators, impact
effectiveness decision making indicators and
and space Maximisation of environment indicators
allocation, government
adequate Citizen-public sector
efficiency and
coverage (level interaction, protection
effectiveness in geo-
and scale, of legal rights and
information based
conflicts improved standard of
service delivery
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12. The Hammarby Model
Biofuel Environmentally
Friendly Electricity District Heating & Cooling
Biosolids
Biosolids Purified waste
water
Organic waste Biogas
Waste water
Rain water
Drinking water
Hazardous and
electrical waste

13. Concluding Remarks
Common denominators of successful European experiences:
• An integrated administration system based on advanced Geo-
ICT, consideration of the environment in budgets and excellent
planning, reporting and monitoring.
• A dynamic approach to model possible areas of environmental
impact or improvement.
• Institutional arrangements, legal frameworks, fiscal
incentives, processes, standards and models.
• Last but not least, the networking of stakeholders at different
levels (i.e. city, region and national) for the promotion of
welfare and development and the extendibility of these
networks to interact in collaborations on a global scale.
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16. European R&D Funding Initiatives
• EU-Russia FP7
• European CO2 Capture, Transport & Storage
Initiative
• European Electricity Grid Initiative
• Solar Europe Initiative
• European Wind Initiative
• European Industrial Bio-energy Initiative
• Smart Cities Initiative
• Etc.
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17. Thank you
Any questions?
diego@studionavarra.co.uk
www.studionavarra.co.uk
Tel.:+447509107805
Skype: diegonavarra
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