Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions

1. Ongoing work: overview
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
1) Strategic Land-Use Planning Instruments in Tropical Regions: State Of The Art and
Future Research
2) Strategic land-use planning in frontiers: Evidence from Mozambique
3) Disentangling the concept of land-use frontiers (shared document)
4) Book chapters
 Submitted ‘The planning–branding nexus: A research agenda for spatial
development’ (Elgar research agendas)
 Preparation ‘Places and Place-based Brands: The State of the Art’
5) Book reviews
 Submitted ‘A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space’ to J. Urban Affairs
 Preparation ‘Planners in Politics’ (30/04) for European Planning Studies
 Preparation ‘Urban and Regional Planning and Development’ for Regional Studies
6) Career progression work including, applications, research plans and interviews.

2. Literature review paper
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
First step—formulating the research problem:
Can a strategic approach to land-use planning support the governance of land
systems in tropical regions?
(1) Identifying the instruments of strategic and land-use planning (without timespan)
(2) Reflecting on the extent these instruments support land-use planning practices.
Second step—elaborating the search protocol:
Google Scholar
ScienceDirect
Scopus

3. Literature review paper
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Fifth step—Full article screening and content analysis:
The final sample of 588 records was assessed for quality + content analysis
We cluster the instruments as:
(1) Supporting decision-/plan-making processes
(2) Regulatory zoning instruments
(3) Supporting community and/or stakeholder participation
(4) Consolidating and improving the planning process
Results

4. Supporting decision-/plan-making processes
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Land appraisal surveys and mapping:
• Land capability surveys (Kanwar, 1979; Young , 1989).
• Mapping land-use potential (Kamusoko et al. 2009).
• Mapping agricultural potential (Shah, 1984).
• Geological surveys (Pichón, 1997).
• Soil potential surveys (De Wit and Verheye, 2003).
• Mapping soil quality (Flego and Roić, 2018).
• Natural resources inventories (Yu et al., 2018).
• Mapping natural resources (Hoanh et al. 2018).
• Mapping transportation networks and accessibility (Piquer‐Rodríguez et al. 2015).

5. Land capability general/targeting
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
DeRose R.C. and Todd D.J. (2001)
A first step in assessing land
suitability for a given use.
Source Source

6. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
(Choudhury and Das, 2015)
West Bengal
Targeting

7. Literature review paper
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Regulatory zoning instruments
• Agro-ecological zoning (Ebregt and De Greve 2000).
• Agro-forestry zoning (Corus and Ozanne, 2012).
• Buffer zoning (Lestrelin et al. 2012; Nolte et al. 2017).
• e.g. Nature-oriented buffer zones; greenbelts used as cropland protection inst.
• Community/district-level zoning (Piquer‐Rodríguez et al. 2018).
• Land-units zoning (Brownstone and Arthur De Vany, 1991)
• Resources management units;
• Rural development units;
• Units for protecting food supplies, and
• Units for food storage,

8. Bandar
Lampung
Indonesia
Source
Community/
district-level zoning

9. Source
Mozambique Livelihood Zoning Map
January 2014, The Famine Early Warning Systems Network

10. Supporting community and/or stakeholder participation
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
• Community consultation
• Voluntary community (Ebregt and De Greve 2000).
• Legally-required (Hessel et al. 2009; Bandeira et al. 2010).
• Stakeholder meetings (Chigbu et al. 2016; Seghezzo et al. 2017).
• Joint public-private-community meetings or living labs (Henríquez-Dole et al.
2018).
• Local-knowledge integration
• Valuing indigenous and ancestral knowledge (Gwaleba and Masum, 2018).

11. Consolidating and improving the planning process
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
• Area Production Model
 It describes the development over time of production
and consumption in agriculture and forestry within a
defined geographical area operating under different
assumptions on land use and socio-economic and
macro-economic changes.
(Sandewall and Nilsson, 2001).
• Forest Land Oriented Resource
Envisioning System or FLORES
 Simulation model enabling to explore the
consequences of alternative land use policies.
(Sawathvong, 2004; Piquer‐Rodríguez et al. 2015).
(Samie et al. 2017; Rockström et al. 2017)
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12. Strategic land-use planning in frontiers: Evidence from Mozambique
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Critical
success factors
for a strategic
approach to
land-use
planning
From global
challenges to local
realities and the role
of planning
Key insights
from the
interviews

13. Critical success factors for a strategic approach to land-use planning in
frontiers
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Specify a long-term vision
(Mäntysalo et al. 2015)
Seeks the involvement of
public and private
stakeholders/multi-
governance structures;
Supports co-production
(Albrechts, 2017).
Projects/short-term actions
are aligned with the results of
land appraisal surveys and
respects the results public
consultation
Operationalized through
short-term actions or projects
(Fligstein & MacAdam, 2011).
Critical success
factors for a strategic
approach to land-use
planning in frontiers

14. Key insights from the interviews: 4 dimensions
Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Land governance
Planning
Territorial
development
Future
land systems
in frontier
regions
Agricultural
development

15. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Planning dimension
• Lack of a long-term strategic vision for territorial planning;
• Lack of dialogue between investors, government, non-governemental and local
communities;
• Lack of awareness of the importance or relevance of planning processes.
• Community level planning is seen as a priority
• Better financial and technical resources for plan implementation
• Update cadastro at all levels of governance

16. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Territorial development dimension
• A economic thinking from colonial times persist as well as a territorial administration
principles;
• Local communities have a weak sense of identity and attachment or belonging ;
• Current land titling is unstainable - Requires a peasant to register but often they have
no means of doing this and so they need support
• Strengthen the juridical capacity of communities – envisioning future
• National network for community management
• Place-based approaches to secure fairness of FDI across sectors

17. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
• Lack of communication between provincial and central government;
• There is also a legitimacy problem – people only accept decisions when they are
formally taken by a court or assembly and provided in written form
• Single methodology for community delimitation and DUATs
• Secure the public ownership of the land
• Supporting the development of corridors
Land governance dimension

18. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Explore an alternative food paradigm involving production,
collection, consumption which could support nutrition
Agricultural development dimension
Certification of endogenous seeds, crops and final products
+ partnership-making | improving institutional capacity, these could
facilitate the development of smallholder scale agriculture + storage
Strengthening the role of woman and youth in farming + practical education

19. Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions
Step 4: Transformative co-production of future land systems in frontier regions
Strategic land use planning in Mozambique within Max Weber’s theory
The modern paradigm: or technocratic rationality, rule of law
The neoliberal paradigm: deregulation, privatization
The neo-modern paradigm: governance, collaborative planning