Institutional Arrangements: A Gate Towards Sustainable Land Use

Abstract

?Various common problems can be seen if observing the ongoing land management processes in CEE countries. The problems appear mainly because of conflicting legislation, performance of binding procedures, political unwillingness, lack of capacity of the local municipalities and public administrations, insufficiency of information and people participation, lack of skills of the professionals and public administrations. Source of all the problems is properly unarranged institutional performance involved within land management process. The aim of this contribution is to discuss on importance for systematisation of both appropriate institutions ('rules of the game') and organizations (organization of the work, execution of the functions, cooperation) and procedures in the field of real property formation that are performed by them. The paper is intended to activate and urge politicians, governmental authorities, non-governmental organizations, academic staff and private firms by providing with the theory of the institutional economics and greater understanding of the necessity for closer and more systematic intergovernmental coordination and cooperation at all levels of public administration in CEE countries. Thus effective land management and land administration systems can support real property markets and sustainable land use. Institutional arrangement has crucial importance to achieve a balance between the regulatory structures (public sector) and the market forces (private sector) that will allow controlled growth and will be perceived as of general economic and social well being to the populace.?