Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Land Use Planning—A Contribution to Sustainable Land
Management (SLM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 The Nexus Between Land Use Planning and Changes
in the Land System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Land Use, Land Governance and Land Tenure: Interdependent
Factors Influencing Land Use Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Planning: Definitions and Evolution in the Context of SLM . . . . . . . 7
2.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Types of Land Use Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 Land Use Planning Approaches: Basic Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 12
3 Principles of Best Practice in Land Use Planning for SLM . . . . . . . 15
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Socio-political and Legal Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3 Multi-stakeholder Engagement: Integration and Participation . . . . . 18
3.4 Multi-scale Relevance and Vertical Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.5 Multi-sectoral Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.6 Multi-functionality of the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.7 Best Planning Policies and Practices: Representative Case
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.8 Key Directions for Supporting SLM Through Land Use
Planning Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4 Contributions of Land Use Planning to Sustainable Land Use
and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.2 Land Use Planning: An Instrument for SLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.3 Land Use Planning: An Instrument for Promoting Sustainable
Land Use and Ecosystem Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4.4 Land Use Planning: A Tool for Sustainable Infrastructure
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.5 Land Use Planning: A Tool to Improve Economic
Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.6 Land Use Planning: A Tool to Strengthen Land Governance . . . . . 48
5 Land Use Planning for Advancing Internationally Agreed
Development Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.1 LUP and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.2 LUP Supporting Other International Agreed Environmental
Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
6 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.1 Opportunities of LUP for SLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.2 Remaining Challenges of LUP for SLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.3 Policy Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Appendix A: Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Appendix B: Selected Land Use Policy Case Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Appendix C: Sustainable Development Goals and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . 107
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111