Efficient land (including water and forest) administration practices are required to achieve many global development agendas—e.g., land degradation neutrality, New Urban Agenda, COP21, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and COVID-19 or Coronavirus pandemic challenges. It also helps to create a peaceful environment by eliminating social conflicts caused by poor land administration practices. Achieving these agendas requires an understanding of how land administration practices can impact people, property tenure, and health or wellbeing. Hence, there is a need to probe natural resources administration theories and tools.
Good land administration helps to secure property tenures. It also protects the land rights of people (including individuals, communities, and the state) through good governance principles and practices. Therefore, probing land administration practices—whether in developed or developing countries—is essential to developing tools or methods for securing natural resource rights for people, especially for youth and women. Understanding the land and health or wellbeing nexus is crucial for adequate living conditions for people in living urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. A broad knowledge gap exists on the land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus of natural resource administration research and practical tools.
This Special Issue presents insights on theories and practices on land administration in the context of land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus relationships. We, therefore, invite conceptual, case studies, field research, and review articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following themes:
- Land administration and property sciences.
- Urban and peri-urban land/water/forest administration.
- Rural land administration.
- Land/water/forest administration (including governance, policy, and management) approaches and their impacts on people’s wellbeing.
- Administering land and natural resources to ensure social equity in developing countries.
- Social conflicts related to land, water, forest, and other natural resources.
- Consequences of COVID-19 or coronavirus for the global agenda on land and the environment.
- Land administration in the context of women and youth land rights.
- Spatial, regional and territorial planning.
- Urban-rural land linkages.
- Land tools for global change and local action.
- Land/water/forest–people–health interconnectivity.
- Responsible governance of tenure and societal transformations.
- Tenure security and public health relations in human settlements.
- Cases of land and health situations in the Global North and South.
- Impact of pandemics on people’s land rights with a focus on progress so far.
- Behavioral and social changes needed for the promotion of tenure security and healthy environmental situations; and
- Emerging approaches to land administration challenges going forward.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Prof. Dr. Uchendu Eugene Chigbu E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Land and Property Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Khomas 9000, Namibia
Interests: land methods; land-use/spatial planning; land tenure; land management; land administration; land governance/policy; rural/(peri)urban development; women’s land rights
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Prof. Dr. Ruishan Chen E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Interests: land use change, natural resource management, land use planning, environmental governance; rural-–urban interaction, social justice; disaster risk reduction; extreme events; sustainable development goals
Prof. Dr. Chao Ye E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Interests: environment governance; production of space; land use and management; rural-urban interactions; sustainable development goals; gender issues; inequality
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For more information, please visit the website here.
Posted: 19th March 2021 by Coordinator
Land MDPI Special Issue “Land Perspectives: People, Tenure, Planning, Tools, Space, and Health”
Efficient land (including water and forest) administration practices are required to achieve many global development agendas—e.g., land degradation neutrality, New Urban Agenda, COP21, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and COVID-19 or Coronavirus pandemic challenges. It also helps to create a peaceful environment by eliminating social conflicts caused by poor land administration practices. Achieving these agendas requires an understanding of how land administration practices can impact people, property tenure, and health or wellbeing. Hence, there is a need to probe natural resources administration theories and tools.
Good land administration helps to secure property tenures. It also protects the land rights of people (including individuals, communities, and the state) through good governance principles and practices. Therefore, probing land administration practices—whether in developed or developing countries—is essential to developing tools or methods for securing natural resource rights for people, especially for youth and women. Understanding the land and health or wellbeing nexus is crucial for adequate living conditions for people in living urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. A broad knowledge gap exists on the land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus of natural resource administration research and practical tools.
This Special Issue presents insights on theories and practices on land administration in the context of land/water/forest–people–health–wellbeing nexus relationships. We, therefore, invite conceptual, case studies, field research, and review articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following themes:
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Guest Editor
Interests: land methods; land-use/spatial planning; land tenure; land management; land administration; land governance/policy; rural/(peri)urban development; women’s land rights
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Guest Editor
Interests: land use change, natural resource management, land use planning, environmental governance; rural-–urban interaction, social justice; disaster risk reduction; extreme events; sustainable development goals
Guest Editor
Interests: environment governance; production of space; land use and management; rural-urban interactions; sustainable development goals; gender issues; inequality
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
For more information, please visit the website here.
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