Infrastructure Engineering - Theses
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ItemPrinciples for an integrated land administration system to support sustainable development( 2002-03)This thesis aims to investigate what principles should guide the development of land administration infrastructures to adequately address the governance needs of evolving rights, restrictions and responsibilities between government, corporate bodies, community groups and individuals to better support sustainable development objectives. (For complete abstract open document)
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ItemLand administration for macroeconomic management( 2012)Land markets contribute significantly to economic growth. Land administration provides the infrastructure for secure land market transactions. Government macroeconomic policies work to manage the economy as a whole. As new land markets develop, there is an increasing need for better, more reliable information for improved economic management of land and its resources. The focus of land administration research has largely been on creating tenure information and registration for the security of land rights. Creating data products has also seen significant motivation. However, not much attention has been given to the potential of this authoritative land information to be used for other economic activities, and the user needs from this perspective. This is of growing concern as new land markets in resources like carbon and water emerge. The growing international focus on sustainable development, natural systems and ‘green’ economies has shown the utility of biomimicry. Biomimicry, a principle of natural capitalism, uses nature as a model, to study and design real-world systems that emulate the efficiency, sustainability and diversity of processes in nature. The ethos provides an innovative approach for studying land administration systems as information ecologies, and an opportunity for land administration to better service macroeconomic management. This research initiates with a review of current literature within the disciples of land administration, macroeconomics, sustainable development and the impact of natural capitalism. Following this, a conceptual model that links the above disciplines is presented. The model proposes a land market information flow lifecycle as the ideal situation for achieving synthesis between land administration information and macroeconomic management, and forms the hypothesis of this research. A robust research design and methodology to test the hypothesis is developed and justified. This involves qualitative case studies of state-based real property, carbon and water markets in three Australian states: Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The case studies help to evaluate the current situation and identify areas of the model that are currently not functional. The results also work to test the validity of the model and judge whether this representation of an ideal outcome is realistic or needs to be altered. A refined land market information flow lifecycle, with 31 principles to achieve a functional link between land administration and macroeconomic management, is triangulated from the results. The refined model is tested for its operation by showing its implementation on the case study states. The implementation shows the importance of each stage of the lifecycle. Achieving all recommended principles can establish synthesis between land administration information and macroeconomic policy making. However one dysfunctional stage can undermine the operation of the entire lifecycle. Additionally, a demonstrator 3D Property Market Tool is presented to show how spatial intelligence can be added to fiscal and monetary policy decisions. Such decision-aiding applications are possible if authoritative market information derived from a dynamic land market information flow lifecycle is achieved. The final chapter of this thesis summaries the research and major contributions of this work. The land market information flow lifecycle establishes an operational link between government land administration and macroeconomic policy agencies. It is the first of its kind to link the disciplines of land administration and macroeconomic management through information supply and demand; based on the principles of natural capitalism and the need for sustainable development of land and resource markets. However, this thesis does not claim to fully solve the problem of holistic land information infrastructures. Suggested further research areas are presented to help build on this work. These include investigations into other drivers for authoritative land information and a dissemination framework to help make the land market information flow lifecycle a reality. Research into incorporating informal land rights and rights in other complex commodities into a holistic land information infrastructure are also suggested to follow from this work.