This paper summarizes legislation in Scotland (some in place for over a century) and Zimbabwe (some in place for fifteen years) relating to Crofting and Communal Areas - both of which are forms of what in this paper has ...

This article addresses the question of whether some meeting houses (wharenui) in New Zealand are oriented towards a sacred marae on the island of Raiatea, near Tahiti. Methods included the use Google Earth, spherical ...

This paper describes research into whether co-owners of multiply owned land would be prepared to trade reduced access to productive portions of Maori Freehold Land, for increased access to culturally treasured portions, ...

Any guarantee of secure title is only as good as our ability to clarify what land is being spoken about. However, in countries where the majority of boundaries are straight lines between marked turning points, experience ...

The past decade has seen a wave of land leases, sales and concessions unparalleled since colonial times. Concurrently, many countries are embroiled in ongoing remedial and restitutive work over historical land leases, sales ...

The article is an extract from correspondence between an Otago Surveying lecturer and a graduate who worked in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then moved to South Africa. Underlying the dialogue is a critical comparison ...

Polynesia has a vast area, and surveys are few and unsystematic. Rapid, low-cost and personnel surveys are needed to identify cases that merit an in-depth treatment. However, surveying options are limited, especially where ...

Latitude and azimuth determination were crucial for Polynesian navigators, supplemented by techniques such as observations of swells, birds and expanded landfalls. Longitude could only be determined by dead reckoning. ...

This paper argues that literature with a connection to identifiable locations provides an incentive for “collecting place” – in other words, being in and personally experiencing places that are the setting for literature. ...