The Potential of Land Planning in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 6029
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coase theorem; property rights and sustainable development; urban planning and design
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: property rights; sustainable development; real estate finance; heritage conservation; zoning; town and country planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched by a UN Summit in New York held 25–27 September 2015. The Agenda aims to end poverty in all of its forms, in accordance with a UN vision that imagines “a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination.”
In this light, this Special Issue solicits research papers (analytical, empirical, or case studies) which address any of the following seven concrete land (regional, town, and country) planning policy/law areas:
- Identifying and removing planned segregation based on ethnicity, religion, wealth, etc. (to increase efficiency).
- Ceasing and prohibiting forced combinations or subdivisions causing massive, arbitrary, and uncompensated social dislocations, ecological crises, or destruction of heritage (to avoid causing inequity and harming heritage conservation or sustainable development).
- Forward planning (by agreement) to provide adequate well-planned land for various uses (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, heritage conservation, and sustainable development).
- Instituting new planning instruments (e.g., land readjustments and land bonds) to free land from its outmoded cadastral boundaries to realize its development potential without violating rights to land (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, and to promote heritage conservation and sustainable development).
- Instituting new planning instruments to bring about win-win land use outcomes in support of design, technological, and other innovations (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, and to promote heritage conservation and sustainable development).
- Planning (by edict if necessary) to correct errors of segregation and other planning mistakes (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, heritage conservation, and sustainable development).
- Critical analysis of the feasibility and limitations of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in relation to land (i.e., regional, town, and country) planning.
Prof. Dr. Lawrence W.C. Lai
Prof. Dr. Kwong Wing Chau
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land planning
- regional planning
- town and country planning
- segregation
- land readjustment
- land bond
- sustainable development