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(agricultural production, housing, optimising transport connections). For instance,
there is a lack of adequate governance approaches for land that take into account the
complexity of the challenges as given specific expression in Sustainable Development Goals such as Life on Land (15), and that integrate the diversity of the ecosystem
services to be observed. For agricultural practices, for example, this would mean no
longer prioritising particular economic products (commodity outputs), but simultaneously taking adequate account of the demand for additional ecosystem services
(non-commodity outputs), taking full consideration of the diversity of the demand
for land.
18.2 Sustainable Land Management—New Approaches
According to the authors who contributed to this book, previous paths have so far been
unable to provide an adequate solution to the multitude of challenges and problems
occurring in land use. For this reason, they propose new approaches that can be
translated into a concept of sustainable land management that specifically integrates
science and practice.
A central starting point in this regard is the early and comprehensive recognition
of land use competition and conflicts, enabling synergetic solutions (in particular) to
be found. The approaches developed in the process represent modules of sustainable
land management as a conceptual idea that should relate to each other and be further
elaborated. In spatial terms, both developments in urban and rural areas need to be
considered (Kanning et al.). Such consideration often deeply contests how actors
have managed land in the past.
In concrete terms, six linked approaches can be detected
(1) Refining the focuses of analysis
(2) Enhancing process and knowledge orientation
(3) Redesigning processes of implementation
(4) Naming and implementing concrete objectives
(5) Defining institutional frameworks and, in particular, governance approaches
(6) Further developing research activities in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary context
Refining the focuses of analysis
According to the contributors to this book, the first step to sustainable land management requires problem analysis that does sufficient justice to the complex challenges.
Such analysis must particularly capture the wide variety of drivers behind land use
demands and land use conflicts (García-Martín et al.). Besides general and supraregional factors such as the general demand for settlement areas, regional contexts must
also be captured adequately. Place-based analysis (García-Martín et al.) is specifically requested. Such analysis should also include the views of local stakeholders
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(agricultural production, housing, optimising transport connections). For instance,
there is a lack of adequate governance approaches for land that take into account the
complexity of the challenges as given specific expression in Sustainable Development Goals such as Life on Land (15), and that integrate the diversity of the ecosystem
services to be observed. For agricultural practices, for example, this would mean no
longer prioritising particular economic products (commodity outputs), but simultaneously taking adequate account of the demand for additional ecosystem services
(non-commodity outputs), taking full consideration of the diversity of the demand
for land.
18.2 Sustainable Land Management—New Approaches
According to the authors who contributed to this book, previous paths have so far been
unable to provide an adequate solution to the multitude of challenges and problems
occurring in land use. For this reason, they propose new approaches that can be
translated into a concept of sustainable land management that specifically integrates
science and practice.
A central starting point in this regard is the early and comprehensive recognition
of land use competition and conflicts, enabling synergetic solutions (in particular) to
be found. The approaches developed in the process represent modules of sustainable
land management as a conceptual idea that should relate to each other and be further
elaborated. In spatial terms, both developments in urban and rural areas need to be
considered (Kanning et al.). Such consideration often deeply contests how actors
have managed land in the past.
In concrete terms, six linked approaches can be detected
(1) Refining the focuses of analysis
(2) Enhancing process and knowledge orientation
(3) Redesigning processes of implementation
(4) Naming and implementing concrete objectives
(5) Defining institutional frameworks and, in particular, governance approaches
(6) Further developing research activities in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary context
Refining the focuses of analysis
According to the contributors to this book, the first step to sustainable land management requires problem analysis that does sufficient justice to the complex challenges.
Such analysis must particularly capture the wide variety of drivers behind land use
demands and land use conflicts (García-Martín et al.). Besides general and supraregional factors such as the general demand for settlement areas, regional contexts must
also be captured adequately. Place-based analysis (García-Martín et al.) is specifically requested. Such analysis should also include the views of local stakeholders