Land governance and personal rationale: a local exercise of land management

Abstract

Land management is particularly complex, and entails an approach appropriated to each local situation, particularly as regards land ownership. Based on an analysis of the land registry data this research shows the large diversity of ownership structures and owner "profiles". Applied to an example in the Massif Central (France), the method suggests to adapt the authorities' projects to the distribution of the "owner profiles", in order to be more efficient.