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Social Aspects in Land Consolidation Processes

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  • Walter Timo de Vries

    (School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany)

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Land consolidation is an instrument that readjusts land parcel shapes and reallocates land rights in order to minimize farmland fragmentation, optimize agricultural output, and generate optimal living and working conditions in rural areas. The optimization and reallocation algorithms typically rely on monetarized values of land parcels, soil quality, and compensation amounts. Yet, land management interventions also need instruments for socio-spatial optimization, which may be in conflict with the monetary ones. Many non-monetary values are qualitative in nature. Hence, there is a research gap in how such values can be detected and incorporated, such that they can create a multi-dimensional land consolidation outcome. This study applies a situational analytical approach to investigate how, where, and when social values and belief systems play a role in land consolidation cases in three different study areas. This process enables the qualitative detection of which types of social values are central during land consolidations and which ones are most essential when evaluating outcomes of land consolidation. The synthesis derives that the incorporation of aims—such as addressing socio-spatial affinity, need for equity and fairness, human recognition, and good neighborship—is possible through an innovation in land consolidation practices, social valuation methods, and/or socially responsive land consolidation laws.

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  • Walter Timo de Vries, 2022. "Social Aspects in Land Consolidation Processes," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:3:p:452-:d:775865
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