Implementation of International Land Use Objectives - Discussions in Germany -

Abstract

International sustainability objectives for land use, designated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Habitat III are formulated in general ways. The objectives need specification and regionalisation to raise impact. How far the general spirit of the objectives is reflected in regional and local practiceswill be discussed using the example of the annual scientific meeting of the German Academy of Spatial Research and Planning (ARL). This article shows that discussions about implementation comprise a richness of ideas in good practice and concepts for inner city development in some locations, whereas other disputes, for example, urban-rural interconnections, are missing.

A Knowledge-Based European Perspective on Sustainable Land Management: Conceptual Approach and Overview of Chapters

“…Not only SDG 15 (Life on Land) covers a wide range of recommendations-SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) also address further important aspects by highlighting a need for change across sectors. Implementation of these objectives is seen at the regional and local level, requiring changes of governance processes (Weith et al 2019).…”

Upcoming Challenges in Land Use Science—An International Perspective

“…Land use science is highly relevant to support consulting environmental and other policies, ensure their coherence and develop governance instruments at multiple scales for ensuring a sustainable development (Sterk et al 2009; see ongoing discussions e.g. in: Weith et al 2019). Most relevant international debates rank currently around the topics of Climate Change, Global Change and tele-coupling, the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and biodiversity losses considering their impacts on the resilience and vulnerability of our land use systems (Allen et al 2016;Bahn et al 2018;Olesen and Bindi 2002).…”

Adherence to Land use Zones in Implementation of Participatory Village Land use Planning Policy in Ulanga District in Tanzania

“…A village land use plan is an outcome of a participatory and systematic assessment of physical, ecological and socioeconomic condition that reflect on current and future needs of the community [1,2]. Village Land Use Plans (VLUPs) were adopted across sectors with the expectation that they would help in solving land use problems including land use conflicts [3][4][5]. The expectations were to facilitate allocation of land according to land use needs, overcoming land use conflicts, and creating a basis for issuing long-term leases to villagers among others [3].…”

“…Adherence to any plan is a measure of the degree to which outcomes or impacts conform to planned objectives [5,[7][8][9]. These outcomes are as a result of physical spatial alterations of planned use attributed by anthropogenic and natural factors over time [10].…”

“…Most studies done to physically examine adherence to land use plans have been based on cities and urban areas while limited studies have been done at village level and rural areas [4,5,7,9,11]. Adherence to VLUPs may be influenced by factors operating on more than one spatial and temporal level [10].…”