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Dr.Grenville Barnes
Past Research and Consulting[1] Activities:
Land Administration (Cadastral/Registration Systems)
Developed
project activities and work plan for USAID-funded CAIMAN (Conservation
in Managed Indigenous Areas) Project in Ecuador (Nov – Dec
2002)
Research
of community tenure regimes in Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala (with Center
for Governmental Responsibility, UF Law School) (Jun 2001 –2003)
Studied
land tenure issues in Barbados, including an analysis of the legal,
technical and institutional framework supporting land administration. This
study contributed to the design of a Housing and Neighborhood Upgrading
Program. (May-June 1998)
Assessed
land tenure situation and land titling activities in the municipality of El
Castillo, Nicaragua, and made recommendations for conflict
resolution, procedures for irregularly surveyed and titled properties, and
use of personnel and budget. (May 1998)
Assessed
the status of the policy, legal, administrative and technical reforms in
public land management and tenure regularization in Guyana.
(March 1998)
Global
study of land administration projects worldwide, including aspects related
to policy, institutional structure, legal framework, culture, environment,
cadastre, land registration system, formal and customary land systems.
(Sep – Dec 1997)
Identified
and analyzed critical land-related issues associated with tenure security,
protection of land rights of indigenous peoples, land administration at the
local community level, land titling, and restrictions on use of land as
collateral in Bolivia. (Feb
1992 – Jun 1995)
Assisted
with reform of the technical and institutional aspects of land titling,
mapping, registration and land information systems in Bolivia.
(Feb 1992 – Jun 1995)
Conceptual
design of a policy-oriented land administration reform program to encourage
more effective use of land in Jamaica to support environmental, urban
and agricultural initiatives. (Sep 1991)
Research
project to compile lessons learned and analyze global comparative
costs for land administration reform funded by USAID/World Bank (Jan – Aug
2002)
Assessment
of USAID-funded land titling and privatization project in Moldova
(May 2002)
Assisted
National Agrarian registry in Mexico define a diagnostic study to
support the future development of the Mexican cadastre (April 2002)
Design
of Regularization Processes in support of the IDB-funded Property
Regularization Project in Ecuador (Apr – Sept 2001)
Assessment
of options for modernizing and decentralizing land administration in Malawi
(Dec 2000 – Jan 2001)
Analysis
of the land concessions backlog in Mozambique with recommendations
for resolution. (February – April 2000)
Collaborated
in the design of a project to establish an integrated legal cadastre in Trinidad
and Tobago (Oct 1998)
Evaluated
the cadastral and registration systems in Colombia and made
recommendations for modernizing and integrating these systems.
(Apr 1996)
Evaluated
new praedial land registration system in Peru.
(Feb - Jun 1995)
Assessed
the cadastral and land registration systems in Belize and
collaborated in the identification, design and preparation of a project to
modernize and improve these systems. (Jan – May 1995)
Assessed
the cadastral and land registration systems in Trinidad and Tobago
(Jan – Feb 1995)
Evaluated
pilot project results and provided recommendations for modernization of land
registration and cadastre systems in the Peten, Guatemala. (Aug 1994)
Evaluated
different approaches for the development of a digital cadastral overlay in
Franklin County, OH. (Jan
– Sep 1992)
Designed
a parcel-based LIS that could be integrated with a broader based LIS/GIS in
support of integrated development planning in the Peten, Guatemala.
(Aug – Sep 1991)
Advised
and assisted with initial implementation of Moldovan Land
Privatization Support Project.
Analyzed
GPS technology transfer experience in Albania. (1999 – 2000)
Developed
and tested an integrated cadastral surveying and mapping methodology
utilizing GPS in Albania. (1995
– 1998)
Analyzed
current approaches towards cadastral surveying, geodetic infrastructure
requirements, equipment needs, training, personnel, budget and designed
pilot project for testing GPS methodology in forested areas of Peru.
(Dec 1996 – Jan 1997)
Designed
and field-tested GPS methodology for cadastral surveying in Peru,
including training local surveyors. (Sep – Oct 1998)
Designed
strategy for modernizing cadastral system in the Dominican Republic,
including reforming the legal framework, upgrading the geomatics profession
to meet current needs, training and education, as well as the design of an
urban and rural pilot project. (Jun – Jul 1997)
Evaluated
current status of geomatics in various land administration institutions and
provided recommendations for property registration in urban and rural areas
of Kyrgyzstan. (May – Jun 1997)
Designed
and developed a medium accuracy GPS methodology for cadastral surveying in Belize,
including the implementation of a pilot project, development of standards,
specifications and procedures, and training of 20 Belizeans.
(May – Jul 1996)
Investigated the integration of remote sensing imagery (SPOT) and GPS measurements for identifying unexploited private land parcels in Bolivia. (Jan 1994 – Jun 1995)
Geographic/Land
Information Systems
Developing
spatio-temporal data model to investigate relationships between property
ownership dynamics, land-use/land cover change and carbon sequestration in
the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain of the US. (May 2000 – Dec
2003)
Application
of GIS for modeling and analyzing the relationships between development
interventions (transportation, health, agriculture) and welfare in Zaire.
Included fieldwork in rural Zaire and the integration of nutritional,
land-use, administrative and topographic data.
(Feb – Sep 1991)
Development
and demonstration of a GIS capability to support "one-call"
utilities protection services in Ohio.
(Sep 1990 – Jun 1992)
Investigated
and analyzed the potential data sources for the transactional updating and
maintenance of the Franklin County (OH) LIS/GIS.
(Jun – Jul 1991)
Developed
software to remove photo distortion from SCS soils maps to facilitate
integration into a multipurpose LIS/GIS.
This contributed to the Dane County Land Records Project, WI,
which demonstrated the utility of GIS for managing land records and
integrating cadastral, soils, land cover and land-use information
(Jun 1984 – Jul 1986)
Designed
and developed a software package to digitize, remove distortions and map
data from single aerial photographs. These
were used to generate maps to aid the collection of census and environmental
information in remote rural areas in South Africa. (Jan 1980 – Jun
1982)
Web-based Knowledge Transfer/Distance Education
Developed
a graduate, Web-based course in Land Tenure and Land Administration. (Jan
– Dec 1999)
Developed
and tested Web course on Legal Cadastre and Property Registry in Central
America (in Spanish). (Jan
– Dec 2000)
[1] There is considerable overlap between my consulting and research.