Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 152, issue C, 2025

Actionable policy responses to disaster threats – A comparative study on resilience and sustainability in global cities

Alexandru Banica, Ema Corodescu-Rosca, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Photovoltaic power plant installation in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan, focusing on land use and regulatory ordinances

Yuki Okazawa, Kimihiro Hino and Yasushi Asami

Measures to reduce land subsidence and greenhouse gas emissions in peatlands: A Dutch case study

Tommy H.G. Wils, Jan J.H. van den Akker, Mandy Korff, Guido Bakema, Dries L.T. Hegger, Rudi Hessel, Mandy A. van den Ende, Martijn M.W. van Gils and Daan Verstand

Ambiguity in state-owned land property rights increases transaction costs in China’s transit-oriented development projects

Dongsheng He, Jinshuo Wang and Guibo Sun

Housebuilders’ landbanks: Inventory, asset or hoard?

Pat McAllister

Assessing the impact of urbanization and forest aging on carbon absorption in the Seoul metropolitan area of South Korea

Jinhoo Hwang, Eunsun Lee, Siwon Jeong, Yoojun Kim, Youngjae Yoo, Sunghoon Cha and Seongwoo Jeon

Limits to local democracy in practice? The case of governing sustainable land use in Norwegian municipalities

Karen Richardsen Moberg

Understanding organic agriculture based on coupled human-earth systems for sustainable land use and rural development in China

Siwei Hu, Yongsheng Wang and Yansui Liu

Advancing urban hub planning: A bibliometric analysis of concepts, effects evaluation, and spatial design

Xiaodong Xu, Shiqi Zhou, Haowen Xu and Zhiqiang Wu

Sustainable land use in Moldova: GIS & remote sensing of forests and crops

Aleksandar Valjarević, Cezar Morar, Ljiljana Brasanac-Bosanac, Tatjana Cirkovic-Mitrovic, Tatjana Djekic, Marija Mihajlović, Ivica Milevski, Golub Culafic, Milan Luković, Liudmyla Niemets, Kateryna Sehida and Gordana Kaplan

Still suffering, still on the periphery? Different paths of the town's post-war spatial change. Evidence from north-eastern Poland

Łukasz Musiaka, Paweł Sudra and Tomasz Spórna

Volume 151, issue C, 2025

Development of an agent-based First Nation land use voting model: Experiments in policy adoption at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada

Robert A. Fligg and Derek T. Robinson

Drivers to adopt agroforestry and sustainable land-use innovations: A review and framework for policy

Aiora Zabala, Unai Pascual, Luis Enrique García-Barrios and Nibedita Mukherjee

Characterizing informality in urban resource management: Towards an integrated framework of urban metabolism and informal flows

Yasmina Choueiri, Daniela Perrotti and Alejandra Acevedo-De-los-Ríos

Policy integration of forest ecosystem services-Cases of Catalonia, Estonia, Grisons, and Hesse & Thuringia

Ester Hertegård and Camilla Widmark

Unpacking property owners’ perceptions of flood damage

B. Ayça Ataç-Studt, Thomas Hartmann and Lenka Slavíková

For or against sustainable development? A geospatial analysis of the state of green space ecosystems in West Gonja, Ghana

Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur, Abdul Rashid Adam, Jacob Nchagmado Tagnan, Sadisu Sadique, Michael Osei Asibey, Stephen Appiah Takyi and Owusu Amponsah

An opinion regarding the grid layout as a goal and parameter

Lawrence W.C. Lai, Stephen N.G. Davies, Hon Chim Chiu and Ken S.T. Ching

Beyond stormwater management: Exploring the social aspects of retrofitting raingardens for deprivation alleviation in Gloucestershire, UK

Sasha Liddle and Alessio Russo

Impact of rising industrial land prices on land-use efficiency in China: A study of underpriced land price

Yuan Qi, Ruihan Lin and Daolin Zhu

Prediction and spillover effects of forest expansion and management to increase carbon sinks in karst mountainous areas: A case study in Guizhou, China

Meng Zhu, Zhongfa Zhou, Xiaopiao Wu, Jiaxue Wan, Jiale Wang, Jiajia Zheng, Rongping Liu and Fadong Li

Ecological resilience in crisis: Analyzing the role of urban land use and institutional policies

Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Ayaz and Sharafat Ali

Beware of the reversal of land degradation neutrality in China's drylands

Siyuan Feng, Wenwu Zhao, Jinming Yan, Fangzhou Xia and Paulo Pereira

A comprehensive framework for evaluating ecosystem quality changes and human activity contributions in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China

Faisal Mumtaz, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, Yadong Dong, Chang Liu, Chenpeng Gu, Hu Zhang, Jing Zhao, Mobeen Akhtar, Barjeece Bashir, Wang Xiaohan, Aqil Tariq, Hammad Ul Hussan and Guan Li

How land property rights affect the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services: A review

Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy and Samuel Evans

Prevention and control of soil pollution toward sustainable agricultural land use in China: Analysis from legislative and judicial perspectives

Lu Feng, Guiyue Luo, Giuseppe Ioppolo, Xiaohong Zhang and Wenjie Liao

Dispelling myths: Reviewing the evidence on zoning reforms in Auckland

Stuart Donovan and Matthew Maltman

Exploring the resource nexus between forest-based land restoration and food security: The case of the African great green wall initiative countries

Ramoudane Orou Sannou and Edeltraud Guenther

Bridging NbS and legal literature: Institutional, procedural and substantive barriers to nature-based solutions implementation

Francesco Venuti

Volume 150, issue C, 2025

Forestry on abandoned agricultural land: Future options for Russia

Denis Dobrynin, Alexander Vorbrugg and Teppo Hujala

Enhancing land management policy in Bangladesh: A blockchain-based framework for transparent and efficient land management

Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Abdullah Al Rafi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Sifat Ullah Sharkar, Ziaul Haque Rafi, Mahamudul Hasan, Md Sawkat Ali and M. Saddam Hossain Khan

Rethinking household food security under a changing climate in drought prone areas of Ethiopia

Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso, Aseres Mamo Eshetie, Eunice Matafwali, Asma Akter, Hua Lu and Xianhui Geng

Envisaging nature-based solutions as designed ecosystems in the changing world

Denis Vasiliev and Richard W. Hazlett

Nature-based solutions and urban planning in the Global South: Challenge orientations, typologies, and viability for cities

Anna Giulia Castaldo, Margherita Gori Nocentini, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira and Israa H. Mahmoud

Co-design in policy development: Leveraging opportunities, addressing challenges, and proposing solutions for inclusive governance - Lessons from England

Judith Tsouvalis, Ruth Little, José Fajardo-Escoffie, Susan E. Hartley, David Christian Rose, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Auvikki de Boon, Siobhan Maderson and Julie Urquhart

Understanding the role of land attachment in the emergence of hollow villages based on the agent-based complex system framework

Qi Zhang, Cai Jin, Jing Cao, Jing Hu, Chun Dai, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Tan Li and Conghe Song

Long-term landscape structure change in contrasting land occupation strategies of the Brazilian Amazon

Lucas Alencar, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada and José Luís Campana Camargo

A mechanics-based theoretical framework of urban sprawl force: A case study in Nanjing, Wuxi, and Yangzhou, China

Xiaoshun Li, Haitao Ji, Xin Chen, Xizhao Liu, Yiwei Geng, Bixia Deng and Fan Li

Analysis of demand for land consolidation works in Poland – A case study of the Bałtów commune

Kewin Krzemieniecki and Monika Mika

Unravelling the link between land use policy and digital infrastructure: Insights from Czech rural communities

Martin Pelucha and Alexander Shemetev

Embedding (Semi-) automatic cadastral boundary extraction into fit-for-purpose land administration in peri-urban ethiopia

Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia, Rohan Mark Bennett, Berhanu Kefale Alemie, Mila Koeva and Jerome Donovan

Spatial allocation of nature-based solutions in the form of public green infrastructure in relation to the socio-economic district profile–a GIS-based comparative study of Gdańsk and Rome

Anahita Azadgar, Giulia Luciani and Lucyna Nyka

Rural land sustainability development planning and use by considering land multifunction values: A case study of analysis and simulation

Zhengjia Liu

Establishment of an inter-provincial compensation system for farmland protection in China: A framework from zoning-integrative transferable development rights

Zhen Xie, Xiaorui Lin, Chun Jiang, Yuxuan Dang, Xiangbin Kong and Chenyu Lin

Does market-oriented land conveyance affect regional economic resilience? A spatial and mediation analysis based on 287 Chinese cities

Feng Xu, Huan Wang and Guangqing Chi

Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions

Soumya Balasubramanya and Kashi Kafle

Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges

Shine Dela-Edem Wormenor and Michael Osei Asibey

Mitigating conflicts in the implementation of intensive land use policies: Insights from a tripartite evolutionary game model

Shouguo Zhang, Jianjun Zhang, Yixin Dai and Ling Zhang

Socio-economic impacts, challenges, and strategies for whole-region comprehensive land consolidation in China

Yang Zhou, Peixuan Li, Qi Zhang and Guoqiang Cheng

Identifying suitable areas for cropland and urban development in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Lijing Wang, Lu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Lingqiao Kong and Zhiyun Ouyang

Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments

Andreas Hengstermann, Linda McElduff and Heather Ritchie

Spatially explicit multi-objective optimization tool for green infrastructure planning based on InVEST and NSGA-II towards multifunctionality

Yuxiang Dong, Song Liu, Xinsheng Pei and Ying Wang

Archetype analysis of land governance: A systemism research paradigm

Rong Tan and Rongyu Wang

Rural revitalisation: Spatio-temporal evolution and multi-scenario prediction of ecosystem service values of second homes in Moudao, China

Zhenyan Lou, Xu Zhao, Cong Chen and Shengping Peng

The coupling development of energy-economy-environment from the perspective of rural households: Insights into preventing returning to poverty

Xin Cheng, Ziyi Yu, Jingyue Gao, Li Chen, Yaru Jiang, Yanting Liu, Yan Dai, Jia Chen, Chaofan Wang, Chenfeng Wang, Yongjie Zheng, Huimin Zhou, Guangjie Liu, Jiaxuan Deng and Zhiju Xie

Explanation of land-use system evolution: Modes, trends, and mechanisms

Guipeng Zhou and Hualou Long

Building resilience in communities through integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies in Nepal

Nabin Dhungana, Suraj Upadhaya, Man Bahadur Bishwakarma, Chiranjeewee Khadka, Hari Krishna Bhattarai and Chun-Hung Lee

Spatially explicit carbon emissions from land use change: Dynamics and scenario simulation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

Yuanyuan Yang, Mingying Yang, Boxuan Zhao, Ziwen Lu, Xiao Sun and Zhengfeng Zhang

Property valuation principles – How policy changes can be detrimental to urban development

Aneta Chmielewska, Marek Walacik and Richard Grover

Evolution of rural human-earth system in midstream of China’s Yellow River and its implications for land use planning: A study of Lingbao County, Henan Province

Yu Zhao, Yuheng Li, Yansui Liu and Xuefeng Yuan

Rainfall shocks and land conflicts: Evidence from rural Uganda and Kenya

Rayner Tabetando, Francisco M.P. Mugizi and Djomo Choumbou Raoul Fani

Drivers of reforestation across land-use sectors in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

A.S. Duden, P.A. Verweij, A.C. Martensen and R.W. Verburg