Smart Land Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Hossein Azadi (), Guy Robinson, Ali Akbar Barati, Imaneh Goli, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Narges Siamian, Rando Värnik, Rong Tan and Kristina Janečková
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Hossein Azadi: Department of Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Guy Robinson: Department of Geography, Environment and Population, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
Ali Akbar Barati: Department of Agricultural Management and Development, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417935840, Iran
Imaneh Goli: Department of Economics, Agricultural Extension and Education, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1477893855, Iran
Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam: Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 169 21 Prague, Czech Republic
Narges Siamian: Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 1477893855, Iran
Rando Värnik: Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Rural Economics, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Rong Tan: School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Kristina Janečková: Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 169 21 Prague, Czech Republic

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: 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 governance systems, efficient land administration and management are required. This study’s outcomes will raise the comprehension of the problems of land management, providing an excellent framework to help land planners and policy-makers, as well as the development of strategic principles with respect to the principal multidimensional components of SLG.

Keywords: land reform; land tenure; land administration; environmental management; sustainable governance; land sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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