FIG Commission 8 - Spatial planning and development

 

"Land is a scarce resource. In pursue of a sustainable development, it is key to balance the various, sometimes conflicting, interests in spatial planning and to acknowledge the voice of all stakeholders. Themes that will be addressed are urban challenges, urban-rural dependencies, and GIS and land policy tools for implementation."

What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 8 will be working on:

 

PDF: Work Plan
VIDEO: Chair of the commission Kwabena Asiama takes you through the work plan

Chair of FIG Commission 8:
Kwabena Asiama, Ghana

Join Commission 8 on LinkedIn


Learn more about how Commission 8 is working with the SDG's


NEWS

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIG Working Week 2024

19-24 May 2024 in Accra, Ghana

www.fig.net/fig2024

 

New FIG Publication on Water Governance Challenges in Africa

June 2021,

"Good Practice for Resilience Planning to address Water Governance Challenges in Africa" is prepared by FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development; Working Group 8.5 on African Water Governance and is no 77 in the series of FIG Publications.  Read more

Publication 77: Good Practice for Resilience Planning to address Water Governance Challenges in Africa (pdf)

Commission 3 + 8 workshop, 13-14 December in Greece

December 2022

The joint Workshop on the theme:
"Spatial Information and planning in a world facing multiple crises -  a surveyors' perspective"

Commission 8 at FIG Working Week 2023

FIG Working Week 2023 took place 28 May - 1 june 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
Commission 8 had organised severaly sessions in the tehcnical programme and held its annual meeting during the conference days. At the General Assembly the Work plans of all commissions were presented

> Work plan
> Video presentation of work plan
> Proceedings/Technical programme
> Report from the conference

 

Newsletters:
February 2024
June 2023
 

More News from FIG Commission 8

 
 

Publications

 

Work Plans

   

Proceedings

 

Working Groups

 

Key Documents

Events


Meet the officers

Commission Chair

Mr. Kwabena Asiama, Ghana
Contact: FIGCommission8 [at] fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Chair of Working Group 8.1 Urban-rural land linkage
Prof. Uchendu Eugene Chigbu,
Email: echigbu[atnust.na
 
Chair of Working Group 8.2 Unregistered Land and large-scale acquisition/compensation
James Kavanagh,
Email: jkavanagh[atrics.org
 
Chair of Working Group 8.3 Spatial Planning Instruments and Climate Change
Adrianna Czarnecka,
Email: adrianna.czarnecka[atpw.edu.pl
 
Chair of Working Group 8.4 Digital Transformation for Land Management and Spatial Governance
Prof. Dr. Ir. Walter Timo de Vries,
E-mail: wt.de-vries[at]tum.de
 
Chair of Working Group 8.5 Spatial Plan and Valuation Information in LADM Context
Abdullah Kara, MSc.
Email: a.kara[attudelft.nl

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.


Achievements

       
 
       
 

Terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

Working Groups

Term 2023-2026 

WG 8.1: Urban-rural land linkages
WG 8.2: Unregistered Land and large-scale acquisition/compensation
WG 8.3: Spatial Planning Instruments and Climate Change
WG 8.4: Digital Transformation for Land Management and Spatial Governance
WG 8.5: Spatial Plan and Valuation Information in LADM Context

Work Plan

 

Tas Force

FIG Africa Taskforce

Newsletters

August 2020
November 2019
August 2019
June 2019

FIG Publications

 

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Events

All events

Reports to General Assembly

Report, May 2020
Report, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019
Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017

All reports