Land Management for Climate-Responsive Development
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land management; collaborative decision making in spatial planning; urban planning; climate mitigation and adaptation; sustainable development management
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Interests: disaster risk governance; climate change adaptation; policy analysis; inter-local cooperation; urban management
Interests: urban planning; spatial governance; sustainable land use
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The combined forces of climate change, globalization, and urbanization are predicted to increase major disruptions and greater losses of life and property across the globe in the foreseeable future. At the same time, there is mounting evidence showing the link between land development and climate change. Better land development and management strategies could help communities respond to extreme events and reduce future risk by providing guidance for development and/or redevelopment in current and forecasted vulnerable areas in order to increase their resilience. Apart from this, land development strategies like land value capture could be used to create new opportunities to make investments to improve adaptation and ecosystem services that, at the same time, could improve opportunities for economic development. However, there is also some evidence that shows how land development has exacerbated inequalities across diverse social, economic, and environmental conditions. Hence, it is important to review what has and has not worked in planning, implementing, and financing the land development process that delivers measurable outcomes for the local people who depend on them.
This Special Issue is intended to provide an understanding of the influences of climate change on land uses, tenureships, and values, as well as the influences working in the opposite direction. It also includes the techniques that can be used to assess those influences, as well as the key policy tools related to land development and investment strategies that can effectively and efficiently protect the most vulnerable communities from the impact of climate change.
We, therefore, invite contributions covering, for example, the following topics:
- Lessons learned from different countries showing the best and/or bad practices of land management and development and their link to climate change;
- Innovative approaches for land management and development strategies to support climate change adaptation and mitigation;
- New tools and technologies to support multi-stakeholder planning and/or collaborative management approaches in land management and development processes to support climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Dr. D. Ary A. Samsura
Dr. Kristoffer Berse
Prof. Dr. Yusfida Ayu Abdullah
Dr. Naim Laeni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land development
- land management
- land use
- land value capture
- land tenureship
- climate adaptation
- climate mitigation
- resilience
- urban and regional planning
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