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LAND USE POLICY
Volume 76, Issue -, Pages 600-610Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.040
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Agricultural land use conflict; Vulnerability; Frames; Law restrictions; Environment; Negotiation
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Conflict is part of all societies and conflict management can ensure stability and consistency for communities. This study ascertained and assessed a type of agricultural land use conflict (ALUC) specific to Romania's realities and identified a possible solution for conflict management like negotiation. An original structure of the analysis was developed based on the identification of four latent sources of conflict: land fragmentation; land grabbing; high natural value (HNV) farmland disappearance; and scarcity of young farmers. The paper cast light on several current frames of the agricultural land by investigating the roles that people assigned to it. Frames were studied through a non-probabilistic survey applied on a sample of 170 Romanian land owners. The dominant frame (among the five tested) was the one in which land had an important role in ensuring food safety. Understanding of land frames requires special effort and becomes essential in any situation where participants have different knowledge, values or economic status, as it is the case of conflict management or negotiation process related to agricultural land use. The results stand for awareness of agricultural land frames which should be considered valuable information for equitable land deals in a larger meaning - up to the society scale.
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