@article{fdi:010057053,
  title = {{S}harpening the understanding of socio-ecological landscapes in participatory land-use planning. {A} case study in {L}ao {PDR}},
  author = {{B}ourgoin, {J}{\'e}r{\'e}my},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n the two decades since the 1992 {R}io {C}onference, land-use planning ({LUP}) has become recognized as a key instrument in putting discourses on sustainable development into practice. {I}n {L}ao {PDR}, despite the implementation problems, it is still seen as a lever for securing land tenure, rationalizing extension services provision, and more recently, for implementing '{R}educed {E}missions from {D}eforestation and {F}orest {D}egradation' ({REDD}) schemes. {I}mpact assessments of past {LUP} have revealed weaknesses of local institutions in the effective implementation of land policies. {I}n order to avoid the blind trust placed in delusive {LUP} success stories, methods for monitoring community participation and understanding of {LUP} activities have been developed in order to assess the quality of the process. {E}xpanding on this perspective, this article proposes a method to assess the quality of {LUP} outputs and to visualize the gap between planning objectives and their actual achievements. {T}his method, based on a refined analysis of past and present land zoning practices in {L}ao {PDR}, gives full prominence to the complexity of landscape mosaics and the way local populations actually use the land. {F}urthermore, this approach, developed and tested under real planning conditions, can also be seen as a safeguard and support for inexperienced implementers in their land-use planning practices, as a diagnostic instrument for quality assessment, i.e. level of accuracy of a land-use plan, and may finally pave the way toward becoming a tool for land-use planning certification.},
  keywords = {{L}and-use planning ; {P}articipatory landscape simulations ; {S}ustainable land management ; {L}ao {PDR}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}pplied {G}eography},
  volume = {34},
  numero = {},
  pages = {99--110},
  ISSN = {0143-6228},
  year = {2012},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.11.003},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010057053},
}