This publication includes papers based on presentations held at two symposia of the European Academy of Land Use and Development (EALD). The symposium of 2018 had the topic “Changes in Land Use Management Practices” and was organised at Riga Technical University. The symposium of 2019 took place at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas on the theme “Land Use and Land Development in the field of tensions between environmental, social and economic sustainability”. The peer-reviewed papers inform about investigations on the common subject “land management” – due to the interdisciplinary nature of the EALD from very different positions. The spectrum of contributions covers regulations, governance and the implementation of land management along with the assessment of relevant data to support these tasks. Various approaches, methods, systems and understanding of the government’s role in the different states of Europe are highlighted. It can be said that Europe provides an experimental field for land management issues, enabling the most important processes when dealing with sustainability: to improve knowledge of new practices, to verify them and to learn from each other.