Land administration and cadastral trends: The impact of the changing humankind-land relationship and major global drivers: the NZ experience

The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the current forces of change on the humankind land relationship and why an increasingly integrated approac h to land administration and management is imperative. An overview of the p ast forces of change on land administration is discussed to demonstrate the dynamic nature of the humankind relationship. Particular attention is give n to major global drivers such as sustainable development, globalization, e conomic reform and the information technology revolution. The potential imp act of these current forces (particularly sustainable development), on the institutional, legal, political and technological frameworks of a nation, i s discussed. New Zealand, which has undergone considerable economic and leg islative reforms since the mid-1980s, is used as an illustration of trends and the imperative for a more integrated approach to land administration ac ross those frameworks.