Working Paper # 20 – Linking Land Titles/Registry Systems in Canada to Land-Related Environmental Information (April 1995)
By J. Anthony Cassils
This paper, prepared for the Task Force on Reporting on Sustainability of the NRTEE, explores the rationale and benefits of linking Canada's land titles/registry systems with land-related environmental information. There is a great deal of environmental information in Canada, and much of it is land-related. The information is dispersed
in hundreds of databases across the country. What is
needed is a bridge between the many land-related databases containing environmental information and the fundamental land ownership system of land-titles/registries. This would provide individuals with more information about the environmental condition of land that they own or
are thinking of purchasing. Air quality, noise levels, the condition of the soil, the level of contamination, underground water quality, past uses and epidemiological
surveys of the area will in all likelihood have a growing impact in influencing where people choose to live.
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