Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 157, issue C, 2025

Avoiding Access Inequity Due to classification errors in zero-deforestation value chains: Coffee and the European union deforestation regulation

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

Spatiotemporal urban growth dynamics and its interactions with transportation networks in an unplanned urban conglomeration using satellite imagery: A case study of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

Gopal R. Patil, Samarth Y. Bhatia, Manish Yadav, Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju and K. Venugopala Rao

The changing tracks of land value capture in constrained policy contexts; A comparison of London’s Crossrail and Grand Paris Express

Mark C. Smith, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Sonia Guelton, Alex Lord and Richard J. Dunning

The impact of Peru’s land reform on national agricultural productivity: A synthetic control study

Mauricio Espinoza and Javier Escobal

Detecting the contribution of transport development to urban construction land expansion in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China based on machine learning

Linna Li, Chunchun Huang and Yansui Liu

The potentials of Indonesian biofuel policy’s replanting scheme to reduce poverty and enhance regional economy

A. Halimatussadiah, F.R. Moeis, A.A. Siregar and D. Nainggolan

Beyond the agro-export boom: The challenges of land concentration and fragmentation in Chile

Eduardo Villavicencio-Pinto

Optimal strategies to combat land degradation amid climate change: Aligned with UNCCD and Kunming-Montreal commitments

Ayat-Allah Bouramdane

Natural resource governance in Niger's telecoupled oasis systems

Kira Fastner, Abdoul Kader Ibrahim Mohamed and Andreas Buerkert

Gold or crops: Preferences for agricultural land restoration practices in gold-mined landscapes in northern Ethiopia

Meaza Zenebe, Tewodros Tadesse, Emiru Birhane, Mitiku Haile, Kassa Teka, Tesfay Araya, Meley Mekonen Rannestad and Abrha Megos Meressa

The interaction between urban heat island and urban parks: An in-situ measurement-based review

Semra Ogce, Huseyin Ogce, Siyu Yu and Robert D. Brown

Impact of China’s rural collective construction land marketization reform on unlocking entrepreneurial potential

Chunlai Yuan, Yuxi Fan and Baoxiang Xu

Monitoring and restricting real property ownership on national security grounds: The case of Northern European countries

Kirsikka Riekkinen, Pauliina Krigsholm and Olga Penkkilä

Rise of meritocracy: Effects of land titling on village chief elections in China

Zhuo Chen, Xinyan Hu and Jinhai Xu

GIS-based multicriteria land suitability assessment for nature-based solutions for the enhancement of carbon sequestration in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Andrea Zaniboni, Berit Balfors, Zahra Kalantari, Jessica Page, Patrizia Tassinari and Daniele Torreggiani

Using BERTopic modelling to map the evolution of space syntax research

Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed

The government’s impact on the transformation of rural livelihoods in agropastoral regions: Aquantitative analysis of farmers’ perceptions of public services in Inner Mongolia, China

Fanglei Zhong, Yusong Liu, Yulian Ma, Yaolong Li and Miao He

Innovative planning for sustainable development: A win-win approach through conversion of negative into positive externalities

Lawrence W.C. Lai, Frank T. Lorne, Stephen N.G. Davies and K.W. Chau

What factors contribute to self-organized collective action for old village reconstruction? A qualitative comparative analysis of 36 villages in China

Tianxiao Zhou, Yuyao Hu, Liping Shan and Changsheng Xiong

How to build a framework for soil health of cultivated land assessment and monitoring: Insights from the perspective of government assistance to smallholders

Qiang Li, Wanting Jiang, Wei Gao and Junxiao Lyu

Gender and tenure insecurity in a matrilineal customary system

Laura Meinzen-Dick and Helder Zavale

Political beliefs and tree canopies in Israel: New insights on urban green space disparities

Danny Ben-Shahar and Dana Nayer

A comparative analysis of agri-environment schemes in China, Europe and US: Potential for improvement

Zhengzheng Hao and Mary Nthambi

Ethical AI: Human-centered approaches for adaptive and sustainable urban planning and policy

Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Salman Qureshi, Mahsa Tarashkar, Hai-Li Zhang, Qin Zhou and Zhongping Lai

Understanding the socioeconomic and environmental drivers of agricultural land conversion in Babol County, Northern Iran: Implications for sustainable land use policies

Abed Ghasemnejad, Korous Khoshbakht, Hossein Mahmoudi and Romina Sayahnia

Towards intelligent land administration systems: Research challenges, applications and prospects in AI-driven approaches

Hamid Hosseini, Behnam Atazadeh and Abbas Rajabifard

Multiple cards in one place: Obstacles to achieving COP 15 goals

Wang Qi, Yu Hu and Wang Hui

Strategically identifying optimal locations for multifunctional green infrastructure: A case study in the Taipei Basin

Zih-Hong Lin, Shawn W. Laffan and Graciela Metternicht

Analyzing and predicting land use and land cover dynamics using multispectral high-resolution imagery and hybrid CA-Markov modeling

Xulong Duan, Muhammad Haseeb, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood and Aqil Tariq

Promoting women autonomy in the agricultural sector: Is productivity land access mode wise and gender differentiated?

Hounkpatin J. Pothin, Dedehouanou Houinsou, Hounnou E. Femi, Codjo Victor, Houngbo N. Emile and Biaou Gauthier

Zoning and spatial resilience: Land use and food security in the Ili River Valley, China

Jinhua Wu, Hongwei Wang, Can Wang, Xin Huang, Jianxin Wei, Zhenggang Wang, Chi Zhang, Bei Chen, Yilinuer Yiming, Cheng Lei and Chunshan Zhou

The unfinished implications of ‘finished’ land reform: Local experiences of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in Leyte, Philippines

Maribeth Cuevas Jadina, Sylvia Nissen and Hamish Rennie

Land use carbon emission projections in shared socioeconomic and representative concentration pathways: Relationship with urbanization in Chinese megacities

Yu Yao, Linlin Lu, Zongtang Fu, Fang Chen, Ran Wang and Qingting Li

Land attraction: An essential factor in socioeconomic activities and population distribution

Gengze Li, Congying Li, Zhouhao Wu, Xiao Peng, Huapu Lu and Liang Zhou

“Absorbing in” or “Crowding out”: The impact of high-standard farmland construction on farmers’ land withdrawal

Moxin Chen, Honggang Lu and Dingde Xu

How collectively owned operating construction land marketization affects rural industrial convergence: Empirical evidence from a rural land institutional reform in China

Jinwei Zhu, Xinli Ke and Lijie He

A Trojan horse in the last of the wild? Pine trees, agroforestry, and land zoning assemble the landscape resilience dilemma in Patagonia

Danny Tröger and Andreas Christian Braun

Addressing Ethiopia's grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring land-use sustainability

Mingzhao Yu, Huafu Li, Shuai Song, Xinyue Shan, Guizhen He, Fadong Li, Yajuan Shi, Hubert Hirwa and Gang Chen

Land cover changes in buffer zones and the effectiveness of this conservation strategy: Case study of Southeastern Brazil

Bartira Rodrigues Guerra, Patricia Catarina dos Reis Macedo Abrantes and Victor Eduardo Lima Ranieri

Blue gentrification: Sustainably effective, socially regressive, or both? Impacts of coastal housing policies in Sardinia

Dante Di Matteo and Eleonora Guadagno

Proximity, politics, and preferences: Spatial and contextual patterns in management opinions for an imperiled multifunctional landscape

Haley K. Netherton-Morrison, Matthew A. Williamson, Morey Burnham, Rebecca L. Som Castellano and Kelly A. Hopping

The political-economy of communal land distribution for rural youths in Amhara region, Ethiopia

Asabu Sewenet Alamineh

Synergizing pollution control and carbon reduction in China’s Yellow River Basin: Exploring the roles of policy, technology, and structural transformation

Liangmin Wang, Weixian Xue, Jingjing Si and Zhanlei Sheng

Africa’s Great Green Mirage? Assessing the disconnect between global finance and local implementation in Africa’s Great Green Wall

Annah Lake Zhu, Amadou Ndiaye, Ruben Dahm, Margaux Mauclaire and Ingrid Boas

Wetland transformation and the implications for ecological resilience in peri-urban Ghana

Nana Egyirba Kissiedu, Michael Osei Asibey, Owuraku Asamoah Asare and Edwin Teye-Mensah Asare

Spatial planning policies for export-oriented green-hydrogen projects in Chile, Namibia, and South Africa

Benedikt Walker, Britta Klagge and Ravn Haid

Revealing land use dynamics in armed-conflict hotspots in North-East Nigeria using earth observation data

Lukumon Olaitan Lateef, Abdulwaheed Tella, John Rowen Miano and Yusuf A. Aina

Deforestation and forest degradation and its impact on ecosystem services and environment across a gradient of areas with different conservation status in northern Mozambique

Aires Afonso Mbanze, Cremildo Ribas Dias, Iahaia Virgílio Cássido and Hideyuki Kurita

Agroforestry systems across elevational gradients in northern Iran

Sajad Ghanbari, Farshid Aghayari, Yousef Mohamadi, Samira Sasanifar, Víctor Rincón and Javier Velázquez

Heterogeneous dominant factors of heat resilience across diverse urban patterns

Lihao Yao, Rui Zhang, Jiaquan Wu, Weiqiang Zhou and Zixin Liang

Exploring soil health research in Brazil: A critical analysis of national challenges, opportunities, and priorities

Maurício Roberto Cherubin, Carlos Roberto Pinheiro Junior, Lucas Nogueira Souza, Lucas Pecci Canisares and Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri

Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation in urban areas: A Norwegian planning perspective

Mina D. Marino, Ingvild Skumlien Furuseth, Caroline Enge, Gunnhild Storbekkrønning Solli and Line J. Barkved

Traceability and projected patterns of Africa’s land use systems and climate variability (1993–2053)

Emmanuel Yeboah, Isaac Sarfo, Qiankun Zhu, Clement Kwang, Dzifa Adimle Puplampu, Ebenezer Nikoi, Isaac K. Arthur, Alex Barimah Owusu, Iris Ekua Mensimah Fynn, Charafa El Rhadiouini, Abraham Okrah, Ali Hasan Jaffry, Fareeha Siddique, Rukhshinda Aftab, Dinah Boyetey, Williams Siaw and Sabastian Batasuma

Institutional jelling in socio-ecological systems: Towards a novel theoretical construct?

Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Gertrud Buchenrieder, Jürgen Pretzsch, Roland Azibo Balgah, Bishawjit Mallick, Tobias Haller and Maria Fernanda Gebara

Does city-county consolidation lead to regional integration of the housing market? Evidence from China

Liyuan Cui, Yujuan Hou and Huayi Yu

Changes and drivers of terrestrial ecosystems in protected areas of China

Chen Wu, Bingran Ma, Chunting Feng, Weiyang Zhao and Wei Wang

Climate change, soil health, and governance challenges in Ghana: A review

Ebenezer Aquisman Asare, Dickson Abdul-Wahab, Archibold Buah-Kwofie, Rafeah Wahi, Zainab Ngaini, Charles Kofi Klutse, Ibrahim Kwame Kwarteng and Crentsil Kofi Bempah

A commentary on Feistauer and Wisbey’s (2024) research on the pre-history of a Chinese fort: Unmasking the Kowloon Walled City as a structure on a palimpsest or greenfield site

Stephen N.G. Davies and Lawrence Wai Chung Lai

Enhancing natural habitats conservation success on private lands by understanding and addressing deficiencies in social capital

Louis Tanguay, Jean-François Bissonnette, Sophie Calmé, Konstantia Koutouki and Katrine Turgeon

The impact of non-farm employment on the stable land contracting willingness of farm households: Evidence from rural China

Ruisheng Li, Huan Wang, Yichao Li and Dingde Xu

Deforestation in conflict-affected areas: A quantitative approach for integrating local perspectives during peacebuilding

Diana María Gutiérrez-Zapata, Mario Fernando Cerón-Muñoz, Rolando Barahona Rosales, Brian Barrett and Augusto Castro-Nunez

Complex relationships between large-scale land acquisitions, deforestation, and land zoning policies in agricultural frontiers

Cristian Darío Venencia, José Luis Agüero, Ariela Griselda Judith Salas Barboza, Julia Mercedes Cardón Pocoví, Carlos Ortega Insaurralde and Lucas Seghezzo

The geography of forest management

Krista Merry and Pete Bettinger

Contested rent-based urban governance: Land rent dissipation and redistribution under scalar politics in China

Jiayao Liu and Jin Zhu

Can liberalizing rural construction land mitigate industrial land price distortion of China? An institutional logics perspective

Guangyu Cheng, Wenwen Zhang and Kwong Wing Chau

Spatial rationalization of location value and use conversion cost in multiobjective land use optimization: Coupling hedonics pricing model and genetic algorithm

Ashenafi Mehari and Paolo Vincenzo Genovese