Theoretical Aspects for Designing a Land Consolidation Software

Abstract

Land consolidation is a process widely used in Europe for counteracting the effects of land fragmentation. Eastern Europe and Romania have encountered this problem after the fall of communism in 1989. The purpose of this paper is to lay the foundations for designing a software application for land consolidation in Romania. This research adopts the constructivist paradigm using the methodology of hermeneutics for literature review. A land consolidation software should be able to provide certain functionalities – relocate and reallocate parcels and evaluate them on a score scale that takes into account: the surface and shape of the parcels, location, accessibility, relief conditions, floods, restrictions, land improvements and economic value