Green Sustainable Development, Technology Innovation and Sustainable Land Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2798
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land and food policies; land governance; food security; agrarian change; resilient agriculture; sustainable livelihood; vulnerability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There continues to be a poor understanding of how transformation and socio-technological change in the specific field of sustainable land use and management can be effectively governed and supported. Land is an essential but limited “resource” to humans. Demand for land and land-based goods is increasing and will continue to rise in the future on account of a growing world population, economic growth, the energy transition, changes in consumption patterns, and more recently, climate change. As a result, we can project that there will be a greater competition for land and more environmental degradation in the future. Land has therefore become a key issue of sustainable development because land use causes many sustainability problems. To secure human needs both now and in the future, green sustainable development is an imperative concept that ensures a fair and balanced nexus of land, water, biodiversity, and other environmental resources among various stakeholders. The focus of green development strategies on the land issue is ensuring that natural assets can deliver their full economic potential on a sustainable basis. Under the green development paradigm, there are minimal changes in land use patterns, ecological spaces, and a nominal increment in construction land, indicating a reduction in the competitive advantage of land. Conversely, technological innovation, as the internal driving force of economic development, has an important impact on land use and land development. These innovations and smart technologies exert decisive influence on the promotion of economic greening, environmental greening, and social greening and are vital for promoting the sustainable development of land. Sustainable land management innovations start from diverse problem framings and emerge from distinct action fields. This Special Issue will focus on a broad variety of innovation types, following distinct solution strategies that can be clustered into the role of technological innovation in green development, multiple land use, knowledge-based decision support tools, co-management approaches, and socio-economic systems. This Special Issue aims to publish articles that examine the comprehensive scope of technology-oriented approaches towards and techniques of green sustainable development. All manuscripts should be written clearly so that they can be understood by a wide range of scholars and policy makers. Any contributions from economists, political economists, land specialists, specialists in green sustainable development, and development economists committed to the rigorous study and analysis of land issues are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi
Prof. Dr. Helen Bao
Dr. Jie Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- technology innovation
- smart technologies
- green development
- sustainable development
- sustainable land management
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