Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

作者：Hossein Azadi, Guy M. Robinson, Ali Akbar Barati, Imaneh Goli, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Narges Siamian, Rando Värnik, Rong Tan, Kristina Janečková · 发表于：Land · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3390/land12030600 · 被引用次数：17 · 研究领域：Land Rights and Reforms、Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Environmental Conservation and Management

Global environmental governance (GEG) is one of the world’s major attempts to address climate change issues through mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite a significant improvement in GEG’s structural, human, and financial capital, the global commons are decaying at an unprecedented pace. Among the global commons, land has the largest share in GEG. Land use change, which is rooted in increasing populations and urbanization, has a significant role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a response, land governance and, consequently, good land governance, have arisen as normative concepts emerging from a series of success factors (notably economic development, environmental conservation, and social justice) to achieve greater sustainability. However, global land governance has shown little success in helping GEG due to the lack of intellectual and flexible thinking over governing the land sector. Consequently, reforming land governance “in a smart way” is one of the most critical actions that could contribute to achieving GEG goals. Hence, we propose a smart land governance (SLG) system that will be well addressed, understood, and modeled in a systemic and dynamic way. A smart system may be smart enough to adapt to different contexts and intellectual responses in a timely fashion. Accordingly, SLG is able to promote shared growth and solve many land sector problems by considering all principles of good land governance. Therefore, in order to enhance adaptive land governanc...