Land governance is shaping and being shaped by the ongoing social-ecological coupling process around the world. Actions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals also embrace the cutting-edge knowledge of land governance. In the context of global climate change, efficient land governance embodies land use optimization to help reduce the growing greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration, alongside the interactions among different agents or stakeholders. Meanwhile, fair land governance involving land property rights and profits is essential for ending poverty and achieving sustainable settlement planning and management.
In recent years, sustainable land governance emerges to underline the enhancement of cross-boundary or trans-boundary land management to fulfill integrated ecosystem functioning. Pragmatically, land governance is a matter of administrative governance that is closely related to administrative hierarchy within local and (inter)national settings. However, the terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric ecosystems implicate complex biophysical processes that occur in spatially continuous areas regardless of the jurisdiction or administrative boundary. Therefore, it is imperative to comprehend land governance in a holistic manner to realize sustainable development.
The Research Topic seeks to compile literature from a wide range of disciplines on contemporary understandings, methods, and applications of land governance in integrated socio-ecosystems, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the achievement of sustainable global development. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following areas:
• Land governance in the socio-ecological systems;
• High-quality Land Administration;
• Land use efficiency and land economics;
• Sustainable land governance and sustainable development;
• Terrestrial ecological conservation and restoration;
• Cross/trans-boundary governance approach;
• Urban-rural land use and sustainable development;
• The application of geoinformatics in land governance;
• Regional landscape planning and management;
• Regional governance and development;
• Regional landscape planning and management.
Land governance is shaping and being shaped by the ongoing social-ecological coupling process around the world. Actions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals also embrace the cutting-edge knowledge of land governance. In the context of global climate change, efficient land governance embodies land use optimization to help reduce the growing greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration, alongside the interactions among different agents or stakeholders. Meanwhile, fair land governance involving land property rights and profits is essential for ending poverty and achieving sustainable settlement planning and management.
In recent years, sustainable land governance emerges to underline the enhancement of cross-boundary or trans-boundary land management to fulfill integrated ecosystem functioning. Pragmatically, land governance is a matter of administrative governance that is closely related to administrative hierarchy within local and (inter)national settings. However, the terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric ecosystems implicate complex biophysical processes that occur in spatially continuous areas regardless of the jurisdiction or administrative boundary. Therefore, it is imperative to comprehend land governance in a holistic manner to realize sustainable development.
The Research Topic seeks to compile literature from a wide range of disciplines on contemporary understandings, methods, and applications of land governance in integrated socio-ecosystems, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the achievement of sustainable global development. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following areas:
• Land governance in the socio-ecological systems;
• High-quality Land Administration;
• Land use efficiency and land economics;
• Sustainable land governance and sustainable development;
• Terrestrial ecological conservation and restoration;
• Cross/trans-boundary governance approach;
• Urban-rural land use and sustainable development;
• The application of geoinformatics in land governance;
• Regional landscape planning and management;
• Regional governance and development;
• Regional landscape planning and management.
