Building sustainability accounting in land administration systems in Australia
Wallace, Jude & Ian Williamson
Sustainability accounting shows how our land and resources (our major assets) are used to deliver measurable sustainable development outcomes. Land administration systems, LAS, are historical antecedents and essential infrastructure supporting land management systems. Sustainability accounting presupposes this infrastructure is already in place, then suggests ways in which institutions and businesses provide the supervisory and information framework for land management within complex, highly geared property markets. Pursuit of sustainable development goals while delivering high quality infrastructure requires the traditional tools of LAS to be used for new purposes. They can directly contribute the sustainability accounting for land management by providing the infrastructure for spatial enabled government agencies to define the positions and places involved in policies and decisions.
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