Abstract
Negative trends in land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are embodied in environmental, economic and social problems, keeping entire societies away from sustainable development goals (SDGs). This recognition incites a need for securing comprehensive and transdiciplinary knowledge on the complex interplay between LULCCs and their drivers. It should inform land use policy makers and produce adequate sustainable social responses. However, fragmentation in both academic and governmental arenas is an important impediment to the needed application of sustainability to land use policy. With this regard, the study offers a transdisciplinary, bottom-up and reproducible framework for understanding key drivers of LULCCs at the national/regional level where sustainable land use policies should be defined. Its main component is the repeated measure ANOVA of the experts’ survey data. The analysis allows aggregation of experts’ different disciplinary, professional and experiential perceptions and produces comparable results. It is tested in Serbia in three sub-periods during post-socialism. Main results confirm that LULCCs and drivers are complexly intertwined and need to be analysed within a comprehensive and transdisciplinary framework. Furthermore, the study should enable the transdisciplinary discussion, learning and knowledge coproduction that are required to inform land use policy makers about the needed trans-sectoral coproduction of policy responses towards SDGs.
Highlights
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is the result of a long-term complex interaction between humans and nature
In order to understand the complex interplay between LULCCs and drivers, and provide more sustainable responses, there is an increased demand for more transdisciplinary frameworks for knowledge coproduction that transcend the limits of disciplinary domains [2,5,6,7]
The mentioned classification by [8] as the first element of the framework was slightly modified based on the academic literature and depending on the availability of statistical data and specific conditions in Serbia
Summary
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is the result of a long-term complex interaction between humans and nature. It has a spatial and a temporal dimension and is determined by the natural, social and economic conditions under which it takes place [1,2]. Past interventions to promote sustainable land use have proven to be insufficient to address drivers which include changes in value systems, economic and social trends, technological innovations and political priorities regarding growth, climate change and energy [3]. In order to understand the complex interplay between LULCCs and drivers (i.e., land dynamics), and provide more sustainable responses, there is an increased demand for more transdisciplinary frameworks for knowledge coproduction that transcend the limits of disciplinary domains [2,5,6,7]
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