Meike Fienitz

• Dr. rer. agr.
• Research Associate at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

Land use conflicts can present major obstacles to sustainable land management. An accurate understanding of their actor constellations and conflict lines is therefore crucial in developing tools for successful landscape governance. In this context, actors from cities and actors from rural areas are often seen as typical opponents. Hence, the object...

For successful management and development of protected areas in general, and national parks (NPs) more specifically, a high acceptance by local residents, interest groups, and policy makers is needed. Communication and participation as influencing factors of acceptability have mostly been analysed for already established NPs. Until today, there is...

As land is limited, conflicts between land uses, and, consequently, conflicts between land users about land use inevitably arise. However, how these land use conflicts affect local land use actors has remained underexplored. The objective of this paper is to provide a broad, cross-sectoral overview of land use conflicts as perceived by local land u...

The literature on land use conflicts has significantly increased in number in recent years, and keeping track has become challenging. Moreover, "land use conflict" is a rather fuzzy concept; a coherent understanding of what it encompasses is presently missing. Thus, the objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of land...

While land use conflicts can present a tedious burden for land management processes, they also fulfill important functions for society, such as making different perspectives visible or driving innovation. As we cannot avoid all conflicts, we therefore need to learn how to address them in ways that diminish their negative impacts. However, a compreh...

Flächen sind knapp und Konflikte um Landnutzung daher unvermeidlich. Sie berühren oft komplexe gesellschaftliche Fragen, bieten aber auch die Chance, innovative und nachhaltige Lösungen zu finden – vorausgesetzt, sie werden konstruktiv angegangen. Politik und Verwaltung spielen dabei eine Schlüsselrolle.

Across the globe, land use is frequently contested. From mining to national parks, from forestry to new housing estates: Land use conflicts are ubiquitous, they can be highly detrimental, and they are likely to become even more significant in the future. The dissertation therefore highlights land use conflicts as one of the key issues in both curre...

Ergebnisse der X-Student Research Group "Alles Wutbürger? Engagement und Protest in Konflikten um Landnutzung - ein Photovoice-Projekt", durchgeführt an der TU Berlin, Fachgebiet Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftsentwicklung, SoSe 2024. Gefördert von der Berlin University Alliance / StuROPx.

The poster presents the methods and a summary of central results of an investigation of land use conflicts in the urban-rural fringe region of Schwerin, Germany.

Biodiversity conservation and agricultural production have been largely framed as separate goals for landscapes in the discourse on land use. Although there is an increasing tendency to move away from this dichotomy in theory, the tendency is perpetuated by the spatially explicit approaches used in research and management practice. Transition zones...

Konflikte können großen Einfluss auf Bemühungen um nachhaltigere Landnutzung haben,werden aber meist erst wahrgenommen, wenn sie bereits eskaliert sind. Dabei bergen gerade die stillen und nicht öffentlich ausgetragenen Konflikte Potenziale für nachhaltiges Landmanagement.

Full text can be downloaded for free here: https://www.accesstoland.eu/IMG/pdf/small_farms_in_europe_-_viable_but_underestimated.pdf