Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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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 Caixeta 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

Volume 159, issue C, 2025

Managing ‘great expectations’: What can land administration realistically achieve?

Oliver Scanlan, Walter Timo de Vries, Serene Ho and Dik Roth

Reviewing the evidence on land tenure and governance: An overview of the impact evaluation literature and lessons learned

Heather Huntington and Jennifer Lisher

Gradual or leapfrog? Decoding the characteristics and patterns of urban redevelopment in rapidly developing megacities, China

Zhi Cai, He Zhu and Yan Tang

Can farmers’ digital economy participation promote their conservation tillage behavior under the perspective of agricultural industry chain?

Muziyun Liu, Jinyu Wang and Hai Li

Dynamics of the sugarcane-energy complex and land structure in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, between 1996 and 2017

José Giacomo Baccarin

Decision-making on crop sequence diversification in the Argentine pampas

Priscila B. Cano, Silvina M. Cabrini and Santiago L. Poggio

Spatial pattern and driving force of agricultural land crime in the Yangtze River Delta, China: From a coordination perspective of administrative and criminal sanctions

Yu Gao and Shuifeng Zhang

How would urban green spaces diverge under different development strategies? Comparison between Shenzhen and Zhuhai

Zixuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, Runmin Lei, Fan Yang and Peimin Chen

Informal trading and spatial competitiveness in African Cities: Does proximity and residential density matter in Bulawayo’s Markets?

Buhle Dube and Trynos Gumbo

Peatland use and peat soil land cover types in Ireland: Implications for the calculation of GHG emissions in the context of climate action

L. Gilet, W. Habib, E. Aitova, K.A. Byrne, C.A. Farrell, O. Fenton, R. Flynn, O’Leary, D., T.R. Morley, P. Tuohy, S. Regan, F. Renou-Wilson, D. Wilson and J. Connolly

Impact of conflicts on agricultural crop investment in rural areas: Policy insight from a nationally representative survey dataset

Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Adelayo Adeoye, Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso and Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi

Asset, voice, leverage? Women’s property ownership and household decision-making in Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras

Anna Calasanti

The effectiveness of spatial planning in preventing the expansion of built-up areas in the buffer zones of Polish national parks

Michał Jakiel

Estimating the heterogeneous effects of a utility-scale solar facility on house prices

Michael Cary, Susan Chen, Jessica Douthit, Njeri Jackson, Michael McCloud and Benjamin Rosner

Land tenure (in) security in the context of urban flood risk in Ghana

Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Marney E. Isaac and Thembela Kepe

Potential of India’s AFOLU sector in achieving net zero: A systematic review of land-based mitigation strategies

Srishti Gwal, Aditya Sharma, Andrew Pascale, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Ganesh Hegde and Chris Greig

Public online attention and firm location decisions: Evidence from 286 cities in China

Xiangdong Sun, Xinyi Zheng and Zisheng Song

Leveraging green roof technology: Stakeholder analysis of sustainable urban landscape in the developing regions of South Asia

Mehak Shehzad, Adnan Younis, Sabir Aziz, Muhammad Khizar, Noor ul Ain and Asad Shabbir

The impact of climate risk on rural land transfer:Evidence from 360 Chinese villages

Haoran Wei and Yulin Liu

Land use transitions and the decline of family farming in Southeastern Brazil: Patterns, pressures, and environmental trade-offs

Renata Evangelista de Oliveira, Leonardo Pinto de Magalhães, Anderson de Souza Gallo, Julia Alves de Oliveira and Adriana Cavalieri Sais

Assessing the impact of land tenure security on farm-level investment in soil and water conservation practices: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Malawi

Nicholas D. Mkandawire, Julius Mangisoni, Innocent Pangapanga and Kennedy Machila

Recultivating abandoned cropland intensifies the trade-off between climate change mitigation and food security within the Yangtze River Basin, China

Yuqiao Long, Jing Sun, Gilles Colinet, Jian Peng, Joost Wellens, Xiuchun Dong, Chuya Wang, Ping Huang, Wenbin Wu and Jeroen Meersmans

Spatial modeling of urban expansion for the territorial management of Ilha Comprida – Brazil

Hedla Mendonça Andrade, Angela Terumi Fushita and Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos

Reducing cropland fragmentation may not be universally beneficial at increasing land use efficiency: Evidence from multiscale spatial analysis of Huang-Huai-Hai region, China

Shuyi Ren, Sijing Ye, Leina Zhang, Peichao Gao, Pablo Tittonell and Changqing Song

A large language model-based approach to building the knowledge graph for master plan: A case study in Guangzhou, China

Wusiqin Zhang, Yimin Chen, Xiaoping Liu and Honghui Zhang

Exploring forest owners’ perspectives and their willingness to accept incentives to adopt climate-smart forestry practices in South Carolina, USA

Miah Maye M. Pormon, Joan U. Ureta and Marzieh Motallebi

Integrating co-management in black soil conservation: Stakeholders' perspectives in Baiquan, China

Zheng Cai, Shengsheng Li, Guoming Du and Yuheng Li

Land rights, natural resources management, climate change and ethno-politics in postcolonial Botswana

Israel R. Blackie, France Maphosa, Hesekia Garekae and Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando

Assessing the comprehensiveness of the land policy toolbox: An analytical framework

Tuulia Puustinen, Eero Valtonen, Pauliina Krigsholm and Heidi Falkenbach

Beyond the trees: Equity and justice in Nepal’s forest restoration

Rishikesh Pandey, Naya Sharma Paudel, Upama Koju, François Libois and Mani Nepal

Governance of sponge landscapes in sandy uplands of the Netherlands: Between resilience and reluctance

Jochum van Montfoort and Kris Lulofs

Economic dynamics of the Italian agricultural land structure

Caterina Sciortino, Filippo Sgroi and Federico Modica

Blue landscape fragmentation and ecosystem health in river source regions: A case of Sanjiangyuan National Park, China

Wenhao Fan, Zehui Sun and Yanyun Luo

Can urban vitality be seen? Video analytics of social interaction and land use

Wenjie Chen, Asya Natapov and Yasir Ali

“All concerns me”: Collaborative governance in pre-regeneration of public rental housing in Hong Kong from the boundary-work perspective

Weixuan Chen, Izzy Yi Jian, Esther Ng and Kar Him Mo

Horizontal carbon compensation for cropland use: A policy tool for promoting the equitable utilization of cropland resources

Jia Li, Xinyu Wu, Limin Jiao, Danling Chen, Xinhai Lu, Jiu Zhu and Zhaoyi Wan

Has rural depopulation reduced agricultural land use efficiency? Mediating roles of cropland abandonment, scale operation, and cultivation structure

Shengdong Yang, Guanghui Jiang and Haibo Yu