Global policy transfer for land administration and disaster risk management

Eva-Maria Unger, Rohan Bennett, Christiaan Lemmen, Kees de Zeeuw, Jaap Zevenbergen, CheeHai Teo and Joep Crompvoets

Land Use Policy, 2020, vol. 99, issue C

Abstract: Contemporary global policy development is increasingly shaped through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In parallel, the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) plays a leading role in the development and diffusion of policy frameworks with regard to geospatial information. Specifically, two frameworks, the Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) and the Strategic Framework for Geoinformation Services for Disaster (SFGISD), are under development to tackle global issues in relation to tenure security and natural disasters. In order to harmoniously diffuse those global goals and frameworks into national laws and regulations, and to local community initiatives and policies, policy transfer is required to occur between governance layers. This paper seeks to assess ‘whether’ and ‘how’ this policy transfer occurs, focusing specifically on identifying limitations and its opportunities for its enhancement. Results reveal that the approach so far used for policy transfer is taking conventional institutional means to do this in both domains land administration and disaster risk management (DRM) domains. There appears to be an opportunity to utilize a networked approach instead of the conventional institutional for a more robust and further-reaching uptake of the policies. This could also give space to provide better mechanisms for feeding results from local level initiatives and successes into the global frameworks.

Keywords: Policy transfer; Land administration; Disaster risk management; UN-GGIM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104834

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