Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 162, issue C, 2026

Land-use conversion from agricultural production areas to built-up areas in the Philippines for decades 2000–2020: Spatial analysis and policy implications

Arnan B. Araza, Wesley Gagarin, Ma. Christina Corales, Chad Patrick Osorio, Marlo D. Mendoza and Rico Ancog

Urban climate adaptation planning in Windhoek, Namibia: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for Nature based Solutions

B. Hansen Gaby and A. Breed Christina

Restoring South Asian Forests: Key lessons, research gaps and the way forward

Sharif A. Mukul, Tek Maraseni and Sunil Nautiyal

Corrigendum to “Research on early warning and control measures for arable land resource security” [Land Use Policy 128 (2023), 106601]

Xueqing Sun, Pengcheng Xiang and Kexin Cong

Corrigendum to “Conflict in land acquisition for cooperative housing development in Woldia, Ethiopia” [Land Use Policy, 154 (2025) 107575]

Nibret Sefiw, Arragaw Alemayehu and Belaynesh Kebede

Implicit and explicit (in)justice on the route to Paris: An analysis of justice expressions in the Paris Agreement, EU-, and Swedish climate-forest policy mixes

Auvikki de Boon and Johanna Johansson

Novel carbon dynamics assessment framework reveals climate positive land management approaches across North America

Kayla Stan, Graham Watt and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Land grabbing and armed conflict in Colombia (1874–2019): A historical analysis from a political ecology perspective

Jose Michael Villarreal-Escallón, Aeleen Jessika Córdoba-Campaña and Luis Felipe Verdugo-Escallón

The new perspective of future multi-scenario analysis: Decoding impact pathways of land use dynamics on sustainable development goals

Hongjiao Qu, Weiyin Wang, Chen-Chieh Feng and Luo Guo

Urban land use prediction and construction effectiveness assessment supporting SDG 11.3.1 and regional planning goals

Ze Zhang, Weiguo Jiang, Ziyan Ling, Xudong Guo, Jie Song, Zhijie Xiao and Xiaogan Yin

Spatial evolution characteristics and driving factors of urban forms in the Colombo Metropolitan Area (CMA), Sri Lanka: A geo-informatics approach

Dilnu Chanuwan Wijesinghe, Pingjun Sun and Zhigao Liu

Unraveling the impacts of free trade zones on urban innovation intensity: Evidence from China

Qixuan Wang, Jie Ren, Hangying Su, Zirui Chen and Mi Diao

Balancing grassland ecology and herders’ economic benefits: The impact of Grassland ecological compensation policy in Inner Mongolia

Chunjun Shi, Ping Li and Jingpeng Guo

The significance of food-water-land-ecosystem nexus to management decisions of national nature reserves

Xianglong Xing, Peng Zhang, Shouzheng Tong, Mingye Zhang, Yuan Xin, Yu An, Geng Cui, Walian Du and Zhuo Yang

Connect and grow: Spatial correlation network and risk regulation pattern of rural settlement health

Xiaozhen Dong, Guanghui Jiang, Yanbo Qu and Yong Yang

Has China’s farmland rotation and fallow system contributed to an increase in grain production?

Tong Liu and Renfu Yao

Conservation policies effectiveness in Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve: Insights from GLM-based forest cover change

Hadi Beygi Heidarlou, David Lopez-Carr and Stelian Alexandru Borz

Challenges of soil health restoration in Tunisian cereal production systems: an analysis through the social-ecological systems framework (SES)

Aya Khamassi, Maria Helena Guimarães, Fraj Chemak, Amélie Bourceret, Mélanie Requier-Desjardins and Stelios Rozakis

Volume 161, issue C, 2026

Evaluating the economic co-benefits of soil carbon sequestration: The test case of the UK

Philip Jones, Jacqueline Hannam and Chris Collins

The dynamics of land use upon climate change: Projections from large-scale and family farming in Brazil

Tarik Marques do Prado Tanure, Daniel Andrade and Edson Paulo Domingues

Designing an incentive system to promote the adoption of sustainable soil health management practices among smallholder farmers in northern Ghana

Solomon Amoabeng-Nimako, Paul T.M. Ingenbleek, Saa Dittoh, Amadou Gouzaye and Prem Bindraban

Global hillside urban expansion reduces natural habitat quality

Kaifang Shi, Dong Hua, Yuanzheng Cui and Yizhen Wu

Is Net Carbon Goal an accounting game? Insights from supply-demand interactions in carbon sequestration service

Mingyu Zhao, Yatao Zhang, Aaron Thompson, Chun Liang Tan, Yang Chen, Waishan Qiu and Wenjing Li

Effects of the 2014 Ukrainian land decentralization reform on land rental auction performance

Roman Neyter, Cornelis Gardebroek, Rico Ihle and Oleg Nivievskyi

Land use regulations assessment on the impacts on urban river systems in Florianópolis, southern Brazil

Paula Lidia Santana, Jakcemara Caprario, Patrícia Kazue Uda and Alexandra Rodrigues Finotti

Shifting land value capture instruments for the Grand Paris Express metro: Metropolitan governance, local trade-offs and urban outcomes

Juliette Maulat and Natacha Aveline-Dubach

Harnessing machine learning for property valuation: An examination of access to education and health opportunities in Fortaleza, Brazil

Lara Sucupira Furtado, Cecilia Silvestre Carvalho, Filipe Francisco Rocha Damasceno, Antônio Augusto Ferreira de Oliveira and Vládia Célia Monteiro Pinheiro

Machine learning in cropland dynamics: Evidence from China

Hanjie Wang, Wenpeng Huang and Xiaohua Yu

Spatiotemporal patterns of artificial forest expansion and their driving mechanisms for carbon sink enhancement in China (2005–2019)

Si-Yu Li, Xing-Peng Wei, Yuan Meng, Yu-Ting Yang, Zi-Yi Zheng, Jing-Xuan Zhou, Wang-Bo Yuan and Hong-Gang Ni

Exploring land banking, perceived neighborhood conditions, and social capital: A case of Detroit, Michigan, USA

Yunmi Park, Jung-Eun Lee, Hyungchul Chung, Galen D. Newman and Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

Everyday urbanism: Informal pathways to mixed-use and compact development in Kumasi, Ghana

Abdul Majeed Issah, Michael Osei Asibey, Muwaffaq Usman Adam and Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur

From local landscapes to global: A cross-scale and cross-level framework for a more just food systems transformation

Genia Hill, Monika Zurek and Michael Obersteiner

Conservation and land-use governance in Brazil: Domestic and international interconnectivity

Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Jessica Pacheco, Rayssa Yuki Murakami Lima, Paulo Moutinho, Heiner von Luepke and Richard Fischer

Underground futures: The essential role of the subsurface in a net zero carbon future

Alexandra M. Gormally-Sutton and Hazel Napier

Adapting biodiversity conservation in agriculture and forestry to projected climate change in temperate and boreal regions: A synthesis

Aino Hämäläinen, Lina Widenfalk, Malin Undin, Erik Öckinger, Adam Felton, Meelis Seedre, Anna Filyushkina and Thomas Ranius

From sustainable to responsible: A biopolitics reinterpretation of ‘8 R’ model

He Gao, Walter Timo de Vries, Wencang Shen and Weidong Qu

The role of social, policy and economic forces in shaping forest restoration practices in Europe

Maitane Erdozain, Iciar Alberdi, Réka Aszalós, Kurt Bollmann, Vassilis Detsis, Jurij Diaci, Martina Đodan, Georgios Efthimiou, László Gálhidy, Marie Haase, Johanna Hoffmann, Delphine Jaymond, Elisabeth Johann, Henrik Jørgensen, Frank Krumm, Timo Kuuluvainen, Thibault Lachat, Katharina Lapin, Marcus Lindner, Palle Madsen, Liviu Nichiforel, Maciej Pach, Yoan Paillet, Ciprian Palaghianu, Jordi Palau, Jesús Pemán, Sanja Perić, Susanne Raum, Silvio Schüler, Jerzy Skrzyszewski, Johan Svensson, Sander Teeuwen, Giorgio Vacchiano, Kris Vandekerkhove, Isabel Cañellas, María Menéndez-Miguélez, Leland Warden, Simon Fleckenstein, Metodi Sotirov, Moses Kazungu, Marcel Hunziker, Luc De Keersmaeker, Aitor Àvila Callau and Sergio de-Miguel

Deciphering urban land use: A typological analysis of built form across 105 urban areas in the U.S. using representation learning

Jianqi Li, Chaosu Li, Steven Jige Quan and Yuxuan Liang

When property becomes liability: Housing wealth and public support for property taxation in urban China

Yu You and Xinyue Shao

Multi-objective land use optimization for enhanced urban livability using a NSGA-III-differential evolution algorithm

Yian Wang, Xueqing Zhou and Kai Cao

Residents’ preference for sustainable habitats through choice experiments using 3D visualisations: Evidence from Rural Western Sichuan, China

Zhuo Li, QiuShan Li, Ishikawa Mikiko and Bo Zhao

The hollowing out of rural china at the micro level: A case study of three traditional villages in southern Anhui province

Yu Wang and Yasufumi Uekita

“Why don't landowners just do what they are told?”: Potential mismatches of values and objectives between family forest landowners and professionals

Jesse Caputo, Zhao Ma and Stephanie A. Snyder

Pan-ontological institutional bricolage? The urgent need for a dialogue between state and customary authorities in Namibian conservancies

Sakeus Kadhikwa, Michael Bollig and Stéphanie Eileen Domptail

Governance as a determinant of land use decisions in strategic basins of the Colombian Andes

Luisa Díez-Echavarría, Clara Villegas-Palacio and Santiago Arango-Aramburo

Volume 160, issue C, 2026

An assessment of the ecosystem services content of green plans as an evaluation proxy for the delivery of urban green infrastructure

Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo, Alan Bond, Natalia Mitie Mizutani, Juliana Siqueira-Gay and Gracielli Folli Monteiro

Amazon deforestation: Drivers, damages, and policies

Alipio Ferreira

Scale mismatches and the value of social networks in access to sanitation facilities in Mwanza City, Tanzania: A Socio-Ecological Network analysis

Chaeka Semango Mwesongo

Land use as a target for terrorism: A geospatial and temporal framework of terrorist preferences analysis in Egypt

Tamer A. Al-Sabbagh, Bahaa Mohamadi, Mohamed O. Abu Ghazala and Ali Younes

Optimizing developed cultivated pastures for sustainable rangeland management: Evidence of ecological efficiency from China’s agro-pastoral ecotone

Yaya Zhang, Zhuohui Ye and Shuhao Tan

Evaluating the spatial-temporal impact of urban nature on urban vitality in Vancouver: A social media and GPS data approach

Yongming Huang, Jiani Du, Mingze Chen, Yuxuan Lin, Shaopo Huang and Yuxuan Cai

The hidden cost of uncertainty: How policy instability delays industrial land development in Shanghai, China

Caiwei Zhang, Helen X.H. Bao, Lennon H.T. Choy and K.W. Chau

Asymmetric thermal effects of urban vegetation greening and browning

Yue Cao, Chuanglin Fang, Guangdong Li, Yuxue Feng, Luhan Li and Jianfeng Sun

Influence pathways of village livelihood capital on the idle homesteads reuse

Xueqian Ding, Li Wang and Yongzhong Tan

Unveiling soil stewardship: plural values in the management of the Montado agro-silvo-pastoral system in Portugal

Greta Winkler and Teresa Pinto-Correia

Rapid expansion of photovoltaic land in China's coastal regions: A doubling from 2020 to 2023

Luguang Jiang, Ye Liu and Liwen Yang

The evolving landscape of farmland ownership in Europe: Implications for food system sustainability

Elin Slätmo, Karina Berbert Bruno and Tristan Berchoux

Unlocking patterns in urban land use efficiency: A global analysis using XGBoost and Bayesian networks

Alberto Gianoli

Integrating innovative design strategies in advancing sustainable housing in Kenya

David Njuguna Mathu, Bernadette Mukhwana Wanjala, Edward Otieno Owino and Salome Wambui Richu

Agricultural intensification increases rather than reduces pressure on the Amazon Forest: Jevons' paradox prevails in the cases of soy and cattle in Brazil (2001–2021)

Francisco de Assis Costa

Revisiting (neo)liberalism in land policy: Trends in property rights regimes across Europe

Sonia Guelton, Małgorzata Barbara Havel, Andreas Hengstermann, Nikos Karadimitriou, Sina Shahab, Vida Maliene and Müge Tunaer-Vural

“Too poor to migrate”: A narrative of labor migration and land fragmentation in Uganda

Kashi Kafle, Naureen Fatema, Shahriar Kibriya, Yuanhang Wang and Ronald Twongyirwe

Predisposing factors of sugarcane abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring policy implications

Pedro Ivo Bastos de Castro, Sven Lautenbach and Raúl Vicens

Private funding for soil health: Private individuals’ preferences for ecosystem services and biodiversity certificates

Ferdinand Lang, Cheng Chen, Mohammed Hussen Alemu, Thomas Lundhede, Søren Bøye Olsen and Bettina Matzdorf

Global evolution of ecosystem services research in watersheds: Insights from large language models

Zhonghao Zhang, Zegui He, Kexin Su, Shuyao Wu and Lumeng Liu

Exploring efficiency and equity in modes of land rights acquisition under customary tenure systems: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Malawi

Timothy Mtumbuka