What is it about?
This article demonstrates how and why the 8R framework of responsible land management is suitable for assessing the degree of sustainability, mitigating climate change, and promoting food sovereignty. The framework provides a checklist to evaluate the strategies and actions at both the local and macro scales.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because it conceptualizes how to link land management frameworks with sustainability frameworks. It does so by mapping the Space–Life continuum into a framework which integrates institutional analysis with biopolitics.
Perspectives
This article puts the 8R framework in a broader perspective and makes the framework, therefore, more valuable. It traces three-decade narratives showing the shift from “sustainable” to “responsible” land governance. Furthermore, it provides an internal logic for addressing today’s core land management issues through an 8-R diagnostic grammar.
Professor Walter Timo de Vries
Technical University of Munich
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This page is a summary of: From sustainable to responsible: A biopolitics reinterpretation of ‘8 R’ model, Land Use Policy, February 2026, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107875.
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