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Modeling customary land tenure in relation to the national land administration model : case study of the northwest region of Cameroon
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Land administration systems all over the world are always preoccupied with the registration of land as it is one of the only ways to have legal ownership of property and do not ever address customary right to land on a full scale. The conventional land tenure systems in Cameroon have is not fully integrated and written in the official land administration system of the country. Cameroon comprises about 250 ethics different having different customary land tenure systems most of which have similar concepts and features. This thesis seeks to provide an overview of these standard systems and comparing it with the official land tenure system to understand where the systems counteract. The Northwest region of the country was chosen as a case study as it has a customary system that is like other ethnic groups in the country. The idea was to develop domain models for the two systems and propose ways by which the government can assimilate the customary system into the legal system.
This thesis describes the development as an ontology, and it represents the comparison between the two systems. The ontology approach was chosen as it efficiently models concepts related to land tenure that can be easily integrated into other systems for assimilations. The building of the customary land tenure system models based on ideas gotten from the concept of the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) as it gives the standards for modeling concepts based on epistemology and reality. The model was validated demonstrations of some instances related to data gotten from content analysis and was found to be valid.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
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Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) Cadaster Social Tenure Domain Model Customary Land Tenure Ontology