The authors (land surveying professionals and educators associated with the U. of Melbourne, Australia, and Aalborg U., Denmark), explain that land administration systems provide "a basic infrastructure for implementing land-related policies and land management strategies with the aim of ensuring social equity, economic growth, and environmental protection." This book offers an introduction to land administration systems that is useful to non-expert readers in the developed and developing worlds. Land administration functions supporting land tenures and their related processes are at the core of the discussion, which also addresses modern land administration theory, the use of land administration systems to build land markets, the management of land use, marine administration, the use of spatial data infrastructures, capacity building for land administration systems, how to choose different land administration tools for different situations, project administration, and future trends. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)