Abstract
<p>Systematic humanitarian demining carried out with care is an essential prerequisite for sustainable land management in post conflict settings. Degradation of land and pollution of water, soil and vegetation, as well as poisonous gas emissions that may even contribute to climate change, can be reduced significantly by humanitarian demining practices. Such practices simultaneously conserve natural resources and increase yields which results to sustainable land management. Mine Risk Education which is a major component of humanitarian demining, will have a lasting impact on people’s knowledge, attitudes and practices related to landmines making a positive contribution towards sustainable land management. This paper utilizes research publications from refereed journals and mine action authorities as well as ground information using the systematic literature review (SLR) method. The study investigates relations between humanitarian demining and sustainable land management in post conflict settings with a classic example from North East Sri Lanka. The practical implications for demining operators are that they can implement the strategies to improve the prevailing sustainable land management conditions of the communities in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.</p>
Highlights
Land is the most essential natural resource for the survival and prosperity of humankind and other living beings in the planet earth (International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions [INTOSAI], 2013)
This review has sought to investigate the extent and content of research into sustainable land management in post conflict settings, identifying different humanitarian demining methods, and discussing implications to improve the current status of sustainable land management
The aim is to highlight the importance in initiating a research to address sustainable land management in post conflict settings
Summary
Land is the most essential natural resource for the survival and prosperity of humankind and other living beings in the planet earth (International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions [INTOSAI], 2013). Landmine crisis possess unique characteristics that influence health of the environment, land in particular and livelihood of the people in a region (Hanevik, 1998) This suggests a need to study sustainable land management in post conflict setting, rather than relying on studies of sustainable land management in other contexts. This review contributes to the sustainable land management (SLM) literature and to SLM research focused on post conflict settings with special attention to Sri Lanka and identified research gaps to be addressed in the future It contributes to the field by mapping the current state of knowledge on landmine clearance, resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), and livelihood of the returned community in demined land in Sri Lanka and by articulating and discussing recommendations for effective sustainable land management further. Finding of this study will be instrumental for demining industries, military officials, academics and policy makers and will add to the project management growing body of knowledge
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