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Causal chains, policy trade offs and sustainability: Analysing land (mis)use in seven countries in the South
- Source :
- Land Use Policy, 37, 60-70, Land Use Policy 37 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The need to enhance sustainable development of land use is more urgent than ever; specifically in developing countries where poverty and land degradation are often interlinked. To promote a common understanding of land use problems by experts, stakeholders and decision makers, it is essential to understand the system characteristics, including the complex feedbacks between drivers and impacts. To enhance sustainable development, appropriate policies need to be identified. In this paper, we analysed and compared seven case studies in Kenya, Mali, Tunisia, China, India, Indonesia and Brazil, representing different biophysical and socio-economic conditions and challenges. We analysed Driver Pressure State Impact Response (DPSIR) story lines of the land use problems, policy priorities and value trade-offs as identified by stakeholders and experts in National Policy Forums. Important drivers of land use change impacting main land use problems among the case studies were economic growth, technological development, immigration and agricultural intensification, in addition to existing policies. Of the latter the most important were related to domestic support through various forms of subsidies or access to credit, land tenure polices and liberalization policies. In the policy prioritization, the value trade-offs made by the National Policy Forums emphasize the environment rather than increased economic production. It is recognized that the environment needs to be improved to maintain and improve economic production in the long term, both in agriculture and in other sectors.
- Subjects :
- LEI NAT HULPB - Milieu
Economic growth
Natural resource economics
conflict
Geography, Planning and Development
environmental kuznets curve
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
framework
LEI NAT HULPB - Milieu, Natuur en Landschap
Economics
National Policy
deforestation
integrated assessment
Land use, land-use change and forestry
Land tenure
narok district
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Sustainable development
Land use
Forestry
Subsidy
Natuur en Landschap
Bodemfysica en Landbeheer
PE&RC
Soil Physics and Land Management
proximate causes
kenya
Plant Production Systems
Plantaardige Productiesystemen
Sustainability
Land degradation
china
ecosystem services
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02648377
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Land Use Policy, 37, 60-70, Land Use Policy 37 (2014)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa18b71fcae5e010f9ecd28551a2a4cd