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you could examine how indigenous groups manage land used for provisioning ecosystem services: communally. communal land management is 99% of our past and certain to be our future again.

generally, elder peoples living in places publicly set priorities for things like resource development (road construction & maintenance, housing, water sources) and families/groups are awarded lots by the council. lots have lifetime leases that can be renewed by children if desired, though the stewards must periodically provide updates on the priorities and how their stewardship is addressing them with things like conservation plans.

in effect, the land is perennially owned by the engaged people of the place (in modernity, some kind of living trust) and blocks of potentially productive land are leased (with no fee, only stewardship requirements) to families and groups. if some aspect of maintenance or resource development is too much for a family/group (catastrophic flood control), the collective can allocate resources for some larger mitigation plan. all disputes between stewards are adjudicated by the council, publicly.

groups/families judged as repeatedly going against the larger groups' conservation/development plans can have their leases terminated, though I understand this is extremely rare because there's no benefit to going alone against the larger group.

communal land management is one of the first things settler states try to undermine and destroy (like enclosure), because it is deeply resistant to market driven resource exploitation and more suited to long term planning.

you can still find these communal arrangements in remote places of developed countries, like some of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. even on the mainland of the highlands, land is set aside into "crofts" which have their own land courts and rights for tenants over landlords. all of scotland proper has a "right to roam" which predates christ, but baffles americans to learn about.... because how can one have land without the right to exclude everybody from it?

the truly abberant structure of land and tenure is what we live under now, which cultural hegemony of capitalist ideology has driven us to believe is normal and sensible.