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Splitting the atom of communal land tenure, with specific reference to Māori freehold land.
This article begins by contextualizing Māori Freehold Land (MFL) within a wider global debate on communal land that is in transition to more individualised forms of tenure. A comparison is made between Ngai Tahu MFL and ...
Deferred Monumentation and the Shakedown factor
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 ...
Surveying in South Africa: Coordinate vs monument cadastre
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 ...
Striking a Balance: balancing cultural and productive uses of Māori Freehold Land
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, ...
Aligning the Ancestors: the orientation of meeting houses in New Zealand.
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 ...
Whatever it takes: strategies by communal land right-holders in Zimbabwe for enhancing tenure security
This article looks at ways in which communal area right-holders in Zimbabwe attempt to add security to their land rights when faced with altered circumstances. Apart from quasi-legal means such as ad hoc diagrams, which ...