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Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows that, compared with the international best practice of privately interviewing adults about their personal asset ownership and rights, the business-as-usual approach of interviewing the most knowledgeable household member(s) on adult household members' ownership of and rights to assets leads to (i) higher rates of exclusive reported and economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and (ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic ownership among women. Further, substantial agreement exists on agricultural landowners and rights holders, as reported by the privately-interviewed spouses. When discrepancies emerge, proxies for greater household status for women are positively associated with the scenarios where women attribute at least some land ownership to themselves.

Gender --- Gender and Development --- Household Surveys --- Inequality --- Land Information Systems --- Land Ownership --- Land Rights --- Living Standards --- Poverty Reduction --- Respondent Selection --- Rural Development --- Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction

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Countries struck by equally powerful disaster events are affected differently in terms of thedevastation caused, the number of casualties, persons displaced, impact on livelihoods, andthe pace of reconstruction and recovery. Some communities, cities, and populations proveto be more resilient than others when faced with disasters. The ability of land and people-to-land relationships to recover after hazard events requires reliable administration systems and authoritative geospatial information. Land administration systems provide security of tenure; control inappropriate land uses; ensure safe construction of buildings and infrastructure; and undertake land valuation for finance, taxation, and compensation. Underpinning effective land administration is accurate geospatial information. An authoritative geospatial information system comprises a series of fundamental databases including addresses, buildings, settlements, elevation and depth, functional areas, geographical names, geology and soils, land cover and land use, landparcels, orthoimagery, physical infrastructure, population distribution, transport and utilitynetworks, water, and a geographic reference framework. Land administration systems and geospatial information play key roles in the planning, monitoring, and implementation of responses before, during, and after disasters. With disaster events around the world increasing in frequency and severity, better access to land and geospatial information is critical to disaster risk management activities, from disaster preparedness and risk mitigation through recovery and reconstruction.Several key initiatives aimed at building resilience to disasters have emerged in recentdecades, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Hyogo Frameworkfor Action, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Integrated GeospatialInformation Framework (IGIF), released by the UN and the World Bank, complements theHyogo and Sendai agendas calling for globally coordinated actions in new geospatial dataacquisition and integration. These global initiatives highlight the positive effects thateffective land administration and geospatial information systems can have.

Earth Sciences and GIS --- Hazard Risk Management --- Land Administration --- Land Information Systems --- Science and Technology Development --- Urban Development --- Urban Governance and Management --- Urban Housing and Land Settlements

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Devoted to research in surveying and mapping, positioning and navigation, satellite positioning, geodesy, photogrammetry, cartography and cadastral, hydrography, remote sensing, spatial data analysis, spatial information science, and geographic information systems.

geodesy --- land information systems (lis) --- digital mapping --- cartography --- geodetic and control surveys --- construction surveys --- Geomatics --- Surveying --- Satellite geodesy --- Remote-sensing maps --- Geographic information systems --- surveying and mapping --- spatial data analysis --- spatial information science --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Maps --- Artificial satellites in geodesy --- Geodesy --- Geodetic satellites --- Cities and towns --- City surveying --- Land surveying --- Engineering --- Earth sciences --- Information science --- Geography --- Geomatics. --- Surveying. --- Satellite geodesy. --- Remote-sensing maps. --- Geographic information systems.