Inter-agency land administration in Australia: What scope for integrating policies, processes and data infrastructures for housing production?

Abstract

Land as a resource is not currently managed efficiently and effectively as revealed through existing knowledge. The objective of this paper is to determine the level of this inefficiency in order to improve our understanding of the interrelationship between agencies that perform land administration functions. The research methods include a synthesis of past studies and the use of a case study approach. It uses as context Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. This approach involves triangulation of mixed methods: interviews and on-line survey are the data sources. The Paired-Samples t-test procedure and the Pearson correlation between each pair were used for analysis. The results revealed limite..