Land Economics, Institutions, and Resource Governance: Socio-Economic and Political Interplays
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 220
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land economics and management; land use and management; resource economics and environmental management
Interests: cultivated land use and protection; watershed public governance
Interests: land economics; agricultural and rural economic development; economic devlopment policy and theory; green economy and sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land resources have long been considered not only as a factor of production, but also as a core medium through which institutional arrangements, power relations, and socio-economic structures interact. Although research on land use and management has accumulated substantial findings, in the context of intersecting globalization, urbanization, and climate crises, issues such as property rights delimitation, policy implementation deviation, local governance capacity, benefit distribution mechanisms, and multi-stakeholder bargaining that underlie land resource allocation urgently need to be placed at the center of discussion. In recent years, scholars have increasingly emphasized the integration of perspectives from institutional economics, political ecology, and public administration to reveal how land institutions evolve within specific socio-economic structures and how they affect resource equity, ecological sustainability, and social resilience.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into the complex interactions among land, institutions, and governance, thereby deepening the systemic understanding of the “human–land–institution” relationship.
Dr. Lan Yao
Dr. Tiangui Lv
Dr. Fuyuan Kuang
Dr. Hongyu Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- farmland protection system
- ecosystem services compensation system
- the impact of land property rights institutions on the mobility of labor and land factors
- collaborative governance of cross-regional natural resources
- implementation effectiveness and constraint mechanisms of territorial spatial use regulation
- institutional embedding of digital technologies in land governance
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