RICS Land Group Blog

RICS and UN collaborate to promote land rights

cmallett — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:25:00 GMT

RICS is partnering with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in a project to mainstream the implementation of FAO’s voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of...(read more)

Crowd sourcing - global out reach

James Kavanagh — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:51:00 GMT

The recently released and popular RICS output on 'Crowd Sourcing and Land Administration 1st ed 2011' is reaching a critical point of its global roll out and industry penetration. Although the concepts held within the document are common knowledge to...(read more)

Why I became a Chartered Environmentalist

rmooney — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:19:00 GMT

Towards the latter end of 2011 I put myself forward to become a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) with the Society for the Environment (SocEnv). The process involves a written career and experience report and an interview, both of which involve reviewing...(read more)

RICS visits FAO HQ Rome

James Kavanagh — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:06:00 GMT

RICS has entered into an agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide support in mainstreaming the involvement of leading academic institutions in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines (VG) on Responsible...(read more)

Merry Christmas from RICS Land Group

cmallett — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:38:00 GMT

RICS Land Group would like to take this o pportunity to wish you all A Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year Best wishes for 2012 It's been a highly productive and exciting end to 2011 for the Land Group with both the new Land Markets 3rd ed and Crowdsourcing...(read more)

Behaviour change

rmooney — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:34:00 GMT

Did anyone see the ‘ What’s Fuelling Your Energy Bill? ’ episode of Panorama that went out last Monday (07 November 2011)? I have a lot of issues with the documentary and the way it portrayed the cost of renewable energy. I will not go into that here,...(read more)

RICS, land grabbing and top billing on UN GLTN website

James Kavanagh — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:50:00 GMT

Land grabbing & food security have been in the news again recently with several UK broadsheets and the BBC running in-depth investigations into developing world land issues. Oxfam, Christian aid (Londoners will have noted the tube posters on land...(read more)

big geo-boys with big geo-toys

James Kavanagh — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:09:00 GMT

INTERGEO 2011 was held in Nuremberg, Germany 27-29 September 2011 and is the biggest tradeshow for geomatics in the world. More than 16,000 visitors from over different 80 countries attended and even through a strong German ‘flavour’ is maintained the...(read more)

The problem with this profession....

cmallett — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:13:00 GMT

It's just one of those things. For the past few years I have been really trying. I have been buying clothes and furniture from second hand and charity shops, trying to buy produce with no or minimal packaging, upstyling clothes I no longer like, or pulling...(read more)

Public property goes public – new UK open data mapping resource goes live

James Kavanagh — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:21:00 GMT

They say that a picture tells a thousand words but a good map (or online spatial representation of data in this case) can tell millions. Indeed the latest efforts by the coalition government to open public access to data highlights the extensive nature...(read more)

Ordnance Survey and land Registry become part of Department for Business Innovation and Skills

James Kavanagh — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:31:00 GMT

The Prime Minister recently announced that Ministerial responsibility for Ordnance Survey, alongside Land Registry and the Met Office, will pass to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). The Government shareholding of Ordnance Survey...(read more)

Chinese state bureau of surveying mapping visits RICS

James Kavanagh — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:50:00 GMT

China delegation visits RICS China has very much been in the news recently and several high level delegations have come to the UK in the wake of the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’ recent visit. RICS was delighted to welcome a high level delegation from the...(read more)

Socio economic rights : Exploring land rights

James Kavanagh — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:05:00 GMT

As foreign investment and market liberalisation change the nature of rural land rights in many developing countries, development organisations have become ever more involved in issues of ownership and access to land. At the same time, the increasing urbanisation...(read more)

UK marine policy statement published

cmallett — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:06:00 GMT

It’s been a long time coming but finally after nearly ten years of debate, consultation and legislation the UK (and after nearly 200 000 years as an island) the UK Government, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland...(read more)

Rare Earth Metal recycling programme needed to protect green energy

cmallett — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:32:00 GMT

Rebecca Mooney has been working extensively with some members of the Environment and Resources Board to put together a submission for the UK government’s consultation on the Electricity Market Reform. RICS policy team has now submitted this to the Department...(read more)