Editorial Board for section 'Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues'
- Land Systems and Global Change Section
- Landscape Ecology Section
- Soil-Sediment-Water Systems Section
- Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues Section
- Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions Section
- Land–Climate Interactions Section
- Landscape Archaeology Section
- Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing Section
- Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment Section
- Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning Section
- Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus Section
- Land – Observation and Monitoring Section
- Land Planning and Architecture Section
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Members (55)

Interests: land and food policies; land governance; food security; agrarian change; resilient agriculture; sustainable livelihood; vulnerability
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Interests: climate-resilient agriculture; food security; sustainable agriculture; agrobiodiversity; agricultural sustainability; indigenous and local knowledge (ILK); wild crops
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Interests: political ecology; food security; agroecology; environmental justice; participatory research

Interests: urban planning; decision-making in real estate initiatives; public–private partnership; sustainability in land management processes and urban planning
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Interests: institutional change; institutional economics; environmental and resource economics; governance of natural resources; agricultural and land economics; conservation; technology adoption; sustainable land management
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Interests: ICT4D; land informatics; digital business
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Interests: risk; human/environment interaction; science and proven experience; climate change; climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; biodiversity; sustainability; landscape analysis; adequacy of communications, landscape planning
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Interests: systems ecology; computational fluid dynamics; ecological economics; environmental hydrodynamics; energy and water resources; climate change thermodynamics; environmental modeling and informatics
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Interests: food systems; sustainability; global environmental change; geospatial data science; nutrition; foreign land investments; human migration

Interests: land management; land administration; land use planning; cadastre; land information; organizational and institutional aspects of land management
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Interests: construction and evaluation of sustainability of programs projects and buildings; public and private feasibility of urban transformation; economic evaluation of environmental and cultural assets; complex decision-making processes and integrated assessments; governance of local development processes; economic and financial feasibility of public and private investment; economic evaluations and real estate appraisals; enhancement and management of cultural and environmental assets; sustainability complex programs of urban transformation; project management; economic evaluation of the feasibility and sustainability of public and private programs and projects; economic evaluation of environmental and cultural heritage; complex decision-making processes and integrated evaluations; plans and models for managing cultural and environmental assets; reuse and urban regeneration; economic evaluations; multidimensional evaluation of urban plans and projects; real estate market and appraisal methodologies
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Interests: land governance; land administration; land tenure; cadastre; land use planning; spatial information management; capacity development
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Interests: economic development; sustainability; growth management; land governance

Interests: land governance; critical agrarian, legal and development studies; political and ontological roots of global inequality; the commons
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Interests: landscape change; environmental history; Latin America; agricultural intensification; environment and development; global environmental change; coffee

Interests: environmental perceptions; large-scale land acquisitions; gender and resource management; climate change; bottom-up institution building processes (constitutionality)
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2. Department of International Development, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Interests: original institutionalism and endogeneity; informality and property rights; credibility thesis; institutional functionalism; common pool resources and commons; agrarian change and socio-legal studies; mixed and qualitative methods

Interests: land tenure; land policies; land markets; behavioral economics; climate change; technology adoption and adaptation; rural transformation; youth and land access

Interests: the cultural and political dimensions of human-environmental relations in past and present societies

Interests: agricultural policy; food security; market and trade; rural transformation
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Interests: overall optimization for the production–living–ecological (PLE) space; remote sensing applications for resources and environment; spatio-temporal simulation for the potential and benefit of renewable energy resources
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Interests: socioenvironmental systems; land systems science; integrated modeling; alternative futures analysis; transboundary basins
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Interests: practitioner and public knowledge in adapting natural resource management to challenges of the anthropocene; innovation and adaptation in forestry; community forestry; changing forest ownership; participatory environmental monitoring; citizen science; stakeholder engagement in forest and tree policy processes; participatory research; human ecology; urban forest governance

Interests: land use; land consolidation; land governance; community development; rural development; regional development; human geography
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Interests: regional development and policy; regional planning; economic globalization; low carbon economy; the Belt and Road Initiative

Interests: landscape agronomy; farming system dynamics; cropping/farming system design; territorial/agricultural scenario analysis; multi-criteria sustainability assessment; peri-urban agriculture; territorial projects
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Interests: political ecology; political economy; environmental politics; environmental policy; environmental governance; property; rural areas and extractive industries; social movements; social theory
Interests: environmental issues; policy development; conservation; animal behaviour; land development; environmental services; housing; aboriginal issues
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Interests: land grabbing; development-induced displacement; natural resource governance; post-disaster response and recovery; participatory approaches to research and development; ethics and governance in the food–water–energy nexus; climate change adaptation and community resilience
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2. Department of Planning, Aalborg University, A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: 3D cadaster; land management; standardization; urban and rural planning; geodata co-operation
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