Creating an Enabling Environment for Land Degradation Neutrality and its Potential Contribution to Enhancing Well-being, Livelihoods and the Environment

作者：Peter H. Verburg, Graciela Metternicht, Cameron Allen, Niels Debonne, Mariam Akhtar‐Schuster, Marcelo Cunha, Karim, Zahurul, Pilon, Andre, Raja, Omer, Marioldy Sanchez Santivañez, A. Şenyaz · 发表于：UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.26190/unsworks/27456 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Land Rights and Reforms、Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 include a target on land degradation neutrality (LDN) (SDG 15.3). Attaining and maintaining LDN requires addressing a land governance challenge to steer land management towards avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation. Uptake of LDN can be catalysed by creating an enabling environment for LDN and by designing and implementing measures that achieve multiple benefits through safeguarding and enhancing well-being and livelihoods of people affected by land degradation while improving a range of environmental conditions. This report provides science-based evidence on the configuration of the enabling environment for LDN and the opportunities for multiple benefits. Three approaches are used to delineate the evidence base. First, a literature review summarizes contemporary trends in land governance and land markets, and assesses the implications for LDN. Second, a survey among practitioners and experts involved in the LDN process gauges their perceptions and expectations about the enabling environment, multiple benefits and general progress of LDN. Third, a review of LDN Target Setting Programme (TSP) country reports contextualizes the results from the survey. Insights from these sources are triangulated to formulate key messages and policy options. These highlight the multidimensional nature of the LDN enabling environment, which requires enhanced vertical and horizont...