Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies

We define the tailoring of land-use policies here as a process that seeks to create a fit between instruments and processes of land-use policy on the one hand and properties of land-use systems in a particular place on the other hand (Epstein et al 2015). Tailoring influences policy effectiveness. For example, forest clearing practices in the Brazilian Amazon shifted from large-scale clearing to more extensive small-scale clearing (Assuncão et al 2017). This shift in clearing practices made it more challenging for established policy and associated monitoring mechanisms to govern forest development in a sustainable way. This calls for tailoring policies over time to better address evolving land-use practices (Assuncão et al 2017).