The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos

This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors’ interests and strategies across scales and how they are closely interlinked with state logics of territorialization. It critiques dominant perspectives that view land use planning as...

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Autores principales: Suhardimana, Diana, Keovilignavong, Oulavanh, Kenney-Lazar, M.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101199
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author Suhardimana, Diana
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
Kenney-Lazar, M.
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description This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors’ interests and strategies across scales and how they are closely interlinked with state logics of territorialization. It critiques dominant perspectives that view land use planning as a tool for bridging policy and institutional divides to generate holistic land governance. Instead, it presents land use planning as a function of power and a contested arena of power struggle, driven primarily by the development targets of sectoral ministries and the interests of powerful local actors. We show how bureaucratic competition and sectoral fragmentation prevail directly within Laos’s National Land Master Plan formulation process. The paper shows how the logics of land governance in Laos are comprised of a disjuncture between national and local land use planning processes and, a disconnect between formal land use planning and actual land use across scales.
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spelling CGSpace1011992025-03-11T09:50:20Z The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos Suhardimana, Diana Keovilignavong, Oulavanh Kenney-Lazar, M. land use planning territories political aspects bureaucracy local organizations corporate culture land governance land policies land allocation This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors’ interests and strategies across scales and how they are closely interlinked with state logics of territorialization. It critiques dominant perspectives that view land use planning as a tool for bridging policy and institutional divides to generate holistic land governance. Instead, it presents land use planning as a function of power and a contested arena of power struggle, driven primarily by the development targets of sectoral ministries and the interests of powerful local actors. We show how bureaucratic competition and sectoral fragmentation prevail directly within Laos’s National Land Master Plan formulation process. The paper shows how the logics of land governance in Laos are comprised of a disjuncture between national and local land use planning processes and, a disconnect between formal land use planning and actual land use across scales. 2019-04 2019-05-06T08:54:35Z 2019-05-06T08:54:35Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101199 en Limited Access Elsevier Suhardimana, Diana; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh; Kenney-Lazar, M. 2019. The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos. Land Use Policy, 83: 346-356 (Online first) doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.017
spellingShingle land use planning
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political aspects
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local organizations
corporate culture
land governance
land policies
land allocation
Suhardimana, Diana
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
Kenney-Lazar, M.
The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
title The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
title_full The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
title_fullStr The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
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title_short The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
title_sort territorial politics of land use planning in laos
topic land use planning
territories
political aspects
bureaucracy
local organizations
corporate culture
land governance
land policies
land allocation
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