Sustainable Land Management in Times of Climate Extremes – Adaptations, Institutional Frameworks, Farmer Behaviour, and Community Empowerment

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to deepen our understanding of how land managers are coping with the dynamically changing resilience of agriculture to climate extremes. We are particularly interested in receiving papers that analyse the ways in which farmers adapt to the issue of drought. Our endeavor is not only to advance our comprehension of individual techniques, tools, and institutional frameworks of land management but also to assess their transferability to other environmental and socio-cultural contexts. Additionally, we are keen on learning more about the social science side of this issue, such as the role and behavior of land owners and land managers in building agricultural resilience or revealing nuances of institutional frameworks that have the potential to make a difference. Moreover, we seek to better understand how communities can use their undeniable influence to increase the accountability for land management and what positive and negative experiences might be formulated.

We cordially invite papers analysing the links between agriculture, social space, and environmental aspects of sustainable land management. Finally, we would like to hear more about how to involve local stakeholders and citizens in decision-making through public engagement, such as citizen science projects.

Dr. Barbora Duží
Dr. Stanislav Martinát
Dr. Jakub Trojan
Dr. Petr Dvořák
Guest Editors

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