This paper reintroduces the concept ‘responsible’ land management in the context of territorial rural development. Why it is necessary to have this alternative concept and what it adds to other existing concepts on land management? It builds on theories of public administration, politics, planning and social sciences to conceptualise ‘responsible’ in order to derive a framework with 8 indicators of what could entail ‘responsible’. These 8 indicators allow to diagnose, analyze and assess future or ongoing interventions regarding the degree of responsible land management. Based on this initial description further recommendations are provided of how to conceptualise further, and how to derive a descriptive, normative, prescriptive, and evaluative framework for ‘responsible land management’.      «

This paper reintroduces the concept ‘responsible’ land management in the context of territorial rural development. Why it is necessary to have this alternative concept and what it adds to other existing concepts on land management? It builds on theories of public administration, politics, planning and social sciences to conceptualise ‘responsible’ in order to derive a framework with 8 indicators of what could entail ‘responsible’. These 8 indicators allow to diagnose, analyze and assess future o...     »