ABSTRACT
Advancing responsible and smart land management strongly depends on, and has to cope with, persuasive and disruptive changes in the demography, climate, and technologies, amongst others. The tenets of land management which are affected are underlining data quality and data veracity, planning paradigms, inclusiveness of stakeholders in allocation and in recognition, land administration models, and public distribution of financial benefits of land value changes. New research directions link smart information to responsible decisions and behavior. The information dimension describes to what extent the information regarding land is complete, accurate, and guaranteed, or incomplete, inaccurate, and not guaranteed. The decision and behavioral dimension reflect the extent to which social rules and legal norms of different stakeholders coincide or are contentious. Using these two dimensions, one can derive four specific research and development directions for responsible and smart land management. The land policy framework relates to these four dimensions and can thus make land management more responsible and smart. Still, new forms of interventions and information technologies need to be designed in order to cope better with the current characteristics of a complex and dynamic world.
