| Title: |
Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems |
| Authors: |
Garrett, R.; Meyfroidt, P.; de Bremond, A.; Wartenberg, A.; Barbieri, L.; Fernández-Llamazares, Á.; Acheampong, E.; Addoah, T.; Adeleye, M.; Alexander, P.; Brandão, J.; Coomes, D.A.; Ellis, E.C.; Fajardo, J.; Jacobi, J.; Leach, M.; Lele, S.; Zonta, A.L.; Lyons-White, J.; Martin, A.; Messerli, P.; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Müller, D.; Mills, M.; Kalunda, P.N.; Pascual, U.; Rueda, X.; Ryan, C.; Setty, S.; Pham, T.T.; Zagaria, C. |
| Contributors: |
European Union; National Science Foundation; FNRS; Formas (Sweden); Swiss National Science Foundation; Royal Society; European Research Council Executive Agency |
| Publisher Information: |
Royal Society Open Science |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
ADDI: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU - Basque Country University) |
| Subject Terms: |
climate; conservation; food; governance; science–policy; sustainability transitions; transformation |
| Description: |
Land systems are the nexus of many global sustainability and justice challenges. Here we present eight guiding principles (P1–8) for improved land system policies following the heuristic stages of a policy cycle. The principles are as follows: embrace recognitional justice (P1), be politically strategic (P2), consider multiple policy goals (P3), address systemic issues (P4), take an integrative scope (P5), foster co-development (P6), adopt clear and monitorable targets (P7) and integrate diagnostic and adaptive capacities (P8). We then explore how well policies align with these principles in two globally relevant cases (land-based climate mitigation and biodiversity-friendly agriculture). In both cases, we find that when policies align poorly with the principles at the agenda-setting stage, there is further misalignment at the policy formulation stage. In the instances when recognitional justice is embraced at the onset, policies subsequently integrate more diverse goals and co-development, but they insufficiently consider political strategy and struggle to handle system complexity. Nonetheless, we identify promising policy mixes that provide benefits to multiple actors, integrate multiple goals, take an integrative scope and have strong monitoring and adaptation, aligning well with multiple principles. Further investigation of these principles could reveal promising policy pathways for land systems. ; This work contributes to the Global Land Programme (glp.earth) with the involvement of several Science Steering Committee members and GLP Fellows. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments which contributed to making the paper much better. The workshop supporting this article was funded by the Royal Society (Hooke20a/SC) to CR, PM, and AdB as a GLP initiative. Funding to support the GLP and AdB, AW, and LB comes from the National Science Foundation Grant #2231770. RG, TA, JB, and JLW were supported by the European Union (ERC, FORESTPOLICY, #949932) and RG and PM |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/ERC/949932; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCIN/CEX2021-001201-M; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/10BD13_193959; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/MULTI/BEJ—R.8002.20; https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250810; https://hdl.handle.net/10810/78133 |
| DOI: |
10.1098/rsos.250810 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10810/78133; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250810 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ ; © 2025 The Authors. ; Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F4387AF7 |
| Database: |
BASE |