Sustainable land management

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The term sustainable land management is used inconsistently. It occurs in the context of questions of soil and environmental protection, the preservation of ecosystem services, but also the extraction of raw materials, property and land management and spatial planning . In a narrower sense, the term “sustainable land management” is also used in agriculture, forestry, surveying or in connection with land management .

Different usage of terms

In an international context, the term is often used in the context of development cooperation. Organizations such as the United Nations (including sub-organizations or programs such as UNEP / UNU , UNDP , FAO ), the World Bank , the Latin American Development Bank , but also the European Commission and German development cooperation ( German Society for International Cooperation ) use it in their work . The focus is on dealing with problems of soil protection.

The World Bank defines sustainable land management as a process in the area of ​​tension between environmental protection and the guarantee of ecosystem services on the one hand and the productivity of agriculture and forestry against the background of population growth and increased land use pressure on the other hand:

"SLM is defined as a knowledge-based procedure that helps integrate land, water, biodiversity, and environmental management (including input and output externalities) to meet rising food and fiber demands while sustaining ecosystem services and livelihoods."

The Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations defines the term somewhat broader and includes not only agriculture and forestry, but also raw material extraction, real estate and property management and spatial planning:

“Land management is the process by which the resources of land are put to good effect. It covers all activities concerned with the management of land as a resource both from an environmental and from an economic perspective. It can include farming, mineral extraction, property and estate management, and the physical planning of towns and the countryside. "

In the context of national policies and programs, only a few non-European countries have so far used the term “sustainable land management”. Particularly noteworthy are Australia (also intra-regional) and New Zealand, who formulate this as part of their government programs in connection with climate change.

In the European context, the definition of the European network for small and medium-sized towns (LUMASEC) can be used, which emphasizes the inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation in sustainable land management:

“As management is the human activity meaning the action of people working together in the aim to accomplish desired goals, land use management is a process of managing use and development of land, in which spatial, sector-oriented and temporary aspects of urban policy are coordinated. Resources of land are used for different purposes, which may produce conflicts and competitions, and land use management has to see those purposes in an integrated way. Therefore, land management covers the debate about norms and visions driving the policy-making, sector-based planning both in the strategic and more operative time spans, spatial integration of sectoral issues, decision-making, budgeting, implementation of plans and decisions and the monitoring of results and evaluation of impacts. "

Research on sustainable land management

Since 2010, projects from science and practice have been working on the topic of “sustainable land management” in the funding measure of the same name. The funding measure is part of the “Research for Sustainable Development” (FONA) framework program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

On the one hand, the aim is to better understand the interactions between land management, climate change and ecosystem services. On the other hand, innovative system solutions are to be developed in order to meet the current challenges of global change and the associated increasing land use conflicts.

Since 2014, additional research activities in the subject area have been running in the funding priority “Innovation groups for sustainable land management”. They are also funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . The thematic focus ties in with those of the previous measure, but places a stronger focus on the innovative skills of scientists and practitioners as well as capacity building in the project regions. A total of nine innovation groups will be funded up to 2019.

Awards and nominations

In 2013 the project "VIP - Western Pomerania Paludiculture Initiative" was awarded the German Sustainability Prize in the field of research for its contribution to sustainable, rewetted moor use. In 2015, a research project from the land management category was nominated for the German Sustainability Research Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hurni, H. (1997): Concepts of sustainable land management. In: ITC Journal, 3-4 / 1997, pp. 210-215.
  2. ^ The World Bank (2006): Sustainable Land Management. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade-offs. Washington, DC.
  3. ↑ UN (1996): Land Administration Guideline ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . With Special Reference to Countries in Transition. Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, ECE / HBP / 96. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica.coop
  4. ↑ cf. Australian Government - Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities : Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated March 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Land & Property Management Authority New South Wales (Australia): Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry for the Environment , New Zealand (Sustainable Land Management Strategy): Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.environment.gov.au
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  5. ↑ Didier Vancutsem (LEAD Expert): 2008 Land Use Management for Sustainable European Cities
  6. ↑ Sustainable land management , website of the BMBF funding measure.
  7. ^ Website of the FONA framework program of the BMBF .
  8. ↑ Seppelt, R., Dormann, C., Eppink, FV, Lautenbach, S., Schmidt, S. (2011): A quantitative review of ecosystem studies: Approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead, Journal of Applied Ecology.
  9. ↑ Weith, T., Schulz, K., Gaasch, N., Seppelt, R., Werntze, A., Eppink, F. (2010): Towards Integration: Sustainable Land Management. A new German Research Funding Measure. (PDF; 311 kB) Local Land & Soil News, 34/35 II / 10, 21–22.
  10. ↑ Innovation groups for sustainable land management. BMBF, accessed on April 11, 2016 (German).
  11. ^ Jury statement for the German Sustainability Award 2013. (No longer available online.) Foundation German Sustainability Award eV, 2013, archived from the original on April 11, 2014 ; accessed on April 11, 2016 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nachhaltigkeitspreis.de