Recent Presentations:

  • “Geomatics at the Crossroads: Building on the UW Legacy.” Presented at Retirement Colloquium for Profs. Alan Voderohe, Tom Lillesand and Frank Scarpace, Madison, WI, June, 2006 (invited)
  • "The Evolution of Ejidal Tenure in Rural Mexico: Challenging the Dominant Property Paradigm. Presented at Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, Puerto Rico, March, 2006
  •  "Infrastructure Change, Human Agency, and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems." Presented at Annual Association of Geography, Chicago, March, 2006 (Perz, S., J. Southworth, G. Barnes and G. Cummings)
  • "Land Tenure and Land Use in the Trans-Oceanic Highway Corridor of the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon: Striking a Balance between Economic, Environmental and Social Policy Imperatives." Presented at Annual Association of Geography, Chicago, March, 2006 (J. Luzar, G. Barnes and F. K. Souza)
  • "Mexico Case Study: Ejidos and Bienes Comunales." Presented at the UF Levin College of Law's Conference on Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, Gainesville, FL, 15-17 May, 2005
  •  “Administración de Tierras: Una Nueva Disciplina?” (Land Administration: A New Discipline?). Land Administration Graduate Program, Universidad de San Carlos (Guatemala) and ITC (Netherlands), Guatemala City, Guatemala, November, 2005. (invited)
  • “Administración de Tierras: Aspectos Institucionales (Land Administration: Institutional Aspects).” Land Administration Graduate Program, Universidad de San Carlos (Guatemala) and ITC (Netherlands), Guatemala City, Guatemala, November, 2005. (invited)
  • “Administración de Tierras: Aspectos Técnicos (Land Administration: Technical Aspects).” Land Administration Graduate Program, Universidad de San Carlos (Guatemala) and ITC (Netherlands), Guatemala City, Guatemala, November, 2005. (invited)
  • “Effective Tools for Cadastral Surveying in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Trimble Users Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November, 2005.  (with K. Barthel and T. Greening) (invited)
  • "Cadastral Surveying: Taking Advantage of Modern Technology." Presented at Forum on Land Information Systems, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 10 May, 2005
  • "Institutional Aspects of Land Information Systems." Presented at Forum on Land Information Systems, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 10 May, 2005.
  • "Land Administration Opportunities and Challenges." Presented at a Forum on Real Property Rights and Development in Trinidad and Tobago, sponsored by the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce with the Inter-American Alliance for Accountability on Real Property Rights (supported by USAID), Port of Spain, Trinidad, 19th January, 2005.
  • "Land Administration - Technical Aspects." Presented at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, 18th January, 2005
  • “Inside the Polygon: Evolution of Community Tenure Systems.” Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9-13, 2004. (with T. Ankersen)
  • Moderator and Panelist - Decentralization, Property Taxation and Valuation Panel, Conference on Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 24-26, 2004  (invited)
  • “Geomatics at a Crossroads?” Tri-Chapter Meeting, Florida Surveying and Mapping Society (FSMS), May, 2004, North Point, FL  (invited)
  • Respondent to Presentation “Translating Principles into Action: The Case of El Salvador.” Workshop on Translating Principles into Action: Lessons and Challenges World Bank, Washington, D.C., March 4-5, 2004 (invited)