Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 164, issue C, 2026

Rethinking gender disadvantage: Unpacking gendered constraints to the adoption of sustainable land management practices in southeast Nigeria

Cynthia Nneka Olumba

Scrutinising European land-use planning: Identifying the priorities and goals of building regulations

Daniels Saakjans, David Kaufmann and Anna M. Hersperger

The cost of ecological protection and restoration: Evidence from the impact of the Shan-shui project on land values

Zeng Shibo and Jin Gui

A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Simo Sarkki, Sirpa Rasmus, Joachim Otto Habeck, Heidrun Matthes, Mia Pihlajamäki and Jussi T. Eronen

Rethinking workable solutions for saving cultivated land use and enhancing climate adaptation through diet shifts

Yiwei Wang, Yuping Bai, Jie Wang, Xiangzheng Deng, Yecui Hu and Xin Chen

Assessing the impacts of farmland use transition on the food–water–energy–pollution nexus in grain production: An integrated simulation framework

Xiaoxing Qi, Qiaoyuan Huang, Yinting Zheng, Wei Zheng and Wenhua Yuan

From global models to local indicators: Assessing land-use transitions and conflicts

Yi-Ying Chen, Zi-Ling Zeng, Wei Huang and Shih-Yuan Lin

Assessment and perception of rural socio-ecological system development in suburban conditions in Central Europe

Marta Dobrovodská and Andrej Raniak

Service-based resilience-building in Anthropogenic Socioeconomic-Ecological-Technological (ASET) systems: Hong Kong as the case

Hao Han and Liang Dong

Using satellite imagery and a farmer registry to assess agricultural support in conflict settings: The case of the producer support grant program in Ukraine

Klaus Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

Major determinants of sustainable agriculture practices adoption: A systematic review

Neha Chauhan, Max Kretschmer, Jorge Gustavo Rodriguez Aboytes and Henrik von Wehrden

Ecological engineering projects significantly enhanced vegetation recovery: A case study from the Jinsha River Basin (Yunnan section), China

An Chen, Suling He, Yuyin Cheng, Jun Ma, Jinliang Wang, Yuncheng Deng, Haichao Xu and Hui Wang

Using the theory of planned behavior to assess Seychellois farmers’ intentions to adopt agroforestry

Daniel Etongo, Jean-Claude Labrosse, Larrisha Serret and Sandra Sinon

User-centric dimensions of trust and acceptance in blockchain adoption for land administration systems: A systematic literature review

Opeyemi Ajayi, Riekkinen Kirsikka and Oluwafemi Adekola

Customary land tenure and climate land transitions: A justice lens on Ghana’s land governance

Yetimoni Kpeebi and Michael Osei Asibey

Sustainable modeling of community-centered ecotourism in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania: A digital resource and capacity building framework

Heda Augustino Chale, Xiu-Hao Ding, Ruihong Liu, Bek Dhuorjang Chol and Haodong Huang

Assessing carbon storage dynamics and policy impacts: Application of InVEST-PLUS framework in the Qinling Mountains, China

Yumeng Ma, Jinshan Wang, Pengyuan Xin, Zixin Zhao, Xiaoxu Zhang, Yuxi Yang, Tian Gao and Ling Qiu

Impacts of climate and land use changes on the cultivable area for winter wheat and their economic benefits in China

Haowei Sun and Li Wang

Predicting ecological security patterns and network resilience under land-use change: Hexi Inland River Basin, China

Man Li, Xuan Wang, Huancai Liu and Chao Wang

From pixels to policy: Multi-scale flood susceptibility mapping using interpretable machine learning for urban resilience

Su Jin Lee, Yunhyoung Cho, Ruo Yin Yang and Steven Jige Quan

The impact of cropland abandonment on food productivity in China's mountainous areas in 2050

Zhenyu Huang, Qianwen Duan, Jizhong Jin, Minghong Tan, Xue Wang, Liangjie Xin and Xiubin Li

High-resolution carbon emission patterns in China driven by historical land use change from 1850 to 2015

Yuanyang Xiao, Jijun Meng, Likai Zhu and Ziyan Han

How does vacant housing redevelopment policy reshape regional housing markets? A dynamic spatial housing-CGE analysis

Seulki Kim and Euijune Kim

Exploring the Kuznets hypothesis in the United Kingdom’s agricultural sector

Saul Ngarava

Corrigendum to “Avoiding access inequity due to classification errors in zero-deforestation value chains: Coffee and the European Union deforestation regulation” [Land Use Policy 157 (2025) 107609]

Caleb Gallemore, Gezahegn Berecha, Kasongi, N.’gwinamila, Adugna Eneyew, Melkamu Mamuye, Janina Grabs, Gina Maskell, Kristjan Jespersen, Annkathrin Mathe, Daniel Mwalutolo, Ina Niehues, Suyana Terry and Nestory Yamungu

Urban ecosystems’ fragmentation as an ecological measure of urbanization quality in shrinking cities

Katarzyna Rędzińska and Magdalena Krawczyk

Dual pathways of human influence on island social-ecological systems: Evidence from China’s Zhoushan Archipelago

Yuan Chi, Yubing Qu, Zhiwei Zhang and Zhenhang Liu

The grain-green tension in China's land transfer

Liping Xu and Yingnan Zhang

Painful hopes? The health and well-being impacts of land expropriation in Chinese villages

Guolin Gu and Wen Fan

Assessing ChatGPT’s legal reasoning in statutory land consolidation: The case of Cyprus

Demetris Demetriou

A novel approach to undertake a socio-economic impact assessment of a major urban regeneration project

O’Donoghue, Cathal, Mohammed Zajeer Ahmed and Patrick McGetrick

How do key actors and governance structures interact in large-scale land acquisition? An institutional theory perspective

Abdul-Rasheed Amidu, Alirat Olayinka Agboola and Muhammed Bolomope

Land rights perceptions and farmer behavior: Evidence from Central Asia

Zarema Akhmadiyeva and Thomas Herzfeld

Navigating the new EU deforestation regulation in the coffee industry: Challenges and prospects for remote-sensing solutions

Sinne Borby Ørtenblad, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Louis Reymondin, Thibaud Vantalon, Christian Bunn, Tiffany Talsma and Anne Gravsholt Busck

Preserving agricultural land with agrivoltaic – But at what cost? An economic analysis of different agrivoltaic systems in Germany

Jonas Böhm, Thomas de Witte, Frank Offermann and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann

Co-benefits of major land consolidation projects for sustainable agricultural production and ecosystem protection in China

Chen Liang and Yang Zhou

Legal incentives for public land grabbing via deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Brenda Brito and Jeferson Almeida

Unlocking fit-for-purpose institutional configurations for efficient collaboration: Evidence from China’s comprehensive land consolidation

Qiufang Li, Wenxiong Wang, Lihong Yu, Zongbao Feng, Yongzheng Cui and Yihao Meng

A systematic comparison of urban and peri-urban vegetation greenness in 955 global major cities

Qikang Zhong, Zhe Li and Chao Yuan

Typology-based spatial modeling of urban block commercial vitality: Evidence from Shenzhen for land use planning

Chendi Yang, Hao Huang, Sian Meng, Yunjie Zhang, Jacqueline T.Y. Lo and Rui Ma

Revolution and evolution in Ethiopian land tenure: Strategic interests and ideological shifts during 50 years of reform

Tom Lavers

Volume 163, issue C, 2026

Reinterpreting Japanese planning tools in the global south: A viewpoint from policy transfer to knowledge co-production

Norihisa Shima

How does land transfer intervention promote farmers’ land investment? Evidence from China

Zhiqiang Cheng and Jinyang Cai

Optimizing county-level land use for sustainable photovoltaic development in China: A multi-scenario analysis

Xiaohuan Xie, Senhong Cai, Haifeng Deng, Shengyuan Li, Xin Liu and Zhonghua Gou

Environmental performance and urban land competitiveness: Insights from mega sport event bidding outcomes

Xiaoan Wang, Lei Hu, Jingyi Wang and Zhibo Zhang

Characteristics and key drivers of virtual urban land flows in China

Haimeng Liu, Jieyang Xiong and Tao Song

Governing non-grain production of farmland: A differentiated strategy based on grain production loss risk

Dan Huang, Yanchi Lu, Zhaomin Tong, Bowen Pang, Yaolin Liu and Yanfang Liu

Rethinking and reconciling the land–energy conflicts from centralized photovoltaics in China

Ning Zhang, Zeguo Yang, Hongzhou Wang, Huabo Duan and Jiakuan Yang

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