Land Ownership and Land Use Development

Across Europe, land is constantly the subject of enormous and widely variedpressures. The land we have is shrinking in area due to numerous reasons,including those that are directly related to climate change and migration.In fact all disciplines that have responsibilities for the husbandry use,management, and administration of the land are forced to address the problemsof how to plan and how to utilise this increasingly valuable resource.The papers contained within this book emerge from two symposia held in2014 and 2015, which now have been arranged along four general themesreflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of the disciplines concerned with land.The first part is dedicated to the interpretation of key terms in their contextand the dissimilar conceptual approaches in the governance of different states.It is followed by papers that identify the process of decision-taking: howto organize and co-operate. One large section addresses the identificationof land pattern changes and the reason for it. The papers in the final clusterdeal with the general theme of strategies and measures used to steer futureevolution in land policies.The publication addresses various needs that have to be balanced: the tasksof living space in the face of societal and demographic changes, infrastructuresupply, challenges of an increasingly urbanised region, food production,'green energy', natural hazards, habitats and cultural landscapes protection.