Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 167, issue C, 2026

Incentives for the adoption of maize–soybean rotation in Northeast China: Modelling the impact of future subsidy policies

Shiting Liu, Xiangping Jia, Anke Möhring, Christian Grovermann, Adrian Muller, Zeyu Wu and Yuquan Chen

Real estate values and urban variables in Istanbul: Interactions of environmental, physical, economic, migration, and transportation using geographic and nonlinear methods

Mustafa Kahraman, Ömer Ünsal and Furkan Taha Çobanlı

Before the ground breaks: Is inclusionary zoning a shield or a signal of gentrification?

Lance Freeman, Yining Lei and Magda Maaoui

From agglomeration to downgrading: Spatial differentiation and drivers of online and offline consumption downgrading in Chinese cities

Jin Rui and Zhaowen Xu

Institution authority and the protection efficacy of nature reserves: Evidence from China

Xiaohong Chen, Sijia Cai, Hongjie Qiang, Jie Chen, Dongbin Hu, Yong Geng and Yangjie Wang

Reframing urban flood resilience through blue green infrastructure- an integrated cluster analysis and DPSIR approach in the case of Kerala, India

P. Ambily, Mohammed Firoz C and N.R. Chithra

Community participation in protected-areas management: A systematic literature review based on the sustainable development goals

Vahid Karimi, Elham Ahmadifard, Gerald G. Singh, Marzieh Keshavarz, Ezatollah Karami, Hossein Azadi and Masoud Yazdanpanah

Systemic failure in industrial land governance: A geospatial audit of allocation, occupation and utilization in Shaggar City, Ethiopia

Dejene Tesema Bulti and Temesgen Abraham Gebreselassie

Understanding city dynamics by analyzing investment processes - an integrated formal and semantic approach

Iwona Kaczmarek and Adam Iwaniak

Global assessment of drought risk to expanded urban land from 2020 to 2100

Qiuyu Liu and Mingxi Du

The mechanism and optimization of contract matching between new agricultural entities and agricultural land transfer model: A cost-benefit and game analysis

Xiaoyan Li and Baofeng Shi

The paradox of rural depopulation and built-up growth: Insights from two decades of settlement change in China (2000–2020)

Yujin Zhou, Jipeng Zhang, Ge Liu, Kaishan Song, Bingxue Zhu, Sijia Li, Shidi Shao, Yang Li and Bingqian Han

Landscape character assessment of Nigeria: A machine-assisted learning approach

Patrick Samson Udama Eneche, Yijian Zeng, Funda Atun, Fanan Ujoh and Karin Pfeffer

Modelling the city choices of real estate developers in China

Jun Chu, De Tong, Hanshuangjie Wu and Yihao Zhang

Rigidity-elasticity-toughness mechanism for low-carbon utilization of environmentally-regulated cultivated land in Jiangsu, China

Xiangdong Shen, Mingli Huang, Xin Chen, Zhuo Liu, Yue Sun and Weiwei Ren

Irrigating the Great Green Walls of China and Africa: Lessons, technologies, and institutional challenges

Annah Lake Zhu, Xiaona Guo, Ruishan Chen, Yuan You, Qiang Li, Xia Lin, Amadou Ndiaye, Lilin Zheng, Zilong Xia and Yongli Cai

Barriers and enabling conditions for improved land restoration and climatic resilience in Oromia, Ethiopia

F.M. van Woesik, G. Senbeta, R. Daniel, G. Eshatu, N. Masresha, I. Dorresteijn, S.C. Dekker and H.J. de Boer

Artificial intelligence in urban land use: How regional policy and institutional embeddedness shape the economic efficiency-social legitimacy paradox

Shaofeng Wang and Hao Zhang

Climate change and eco-anxiety: The effect of altitude on farmers’ subjective wellbeing in low- and middle-income settings

Leonardo Becchetti, Chiara Lubicz and Francesco Salustri

Sustainable livelihood in the Everest region of Nepal using the TEK framework

Arindra Nath Mishra

Beyond expansion: Bottom-line thinking for sustainable farmland in global drylands

Deji Wuyun

Public open space as a catalyst for income sorting in high-density urban areas: Evidence from Hong Kong

Ruiyang Wang, Shuai Shi, Siu Kei Wong and Huan Lu

Uneven recognition: A comparative study of indigenous communities’ struggle for securing customary land rights in Indonesia

Andi Rahmat Hidayat, Otto Hospes and C.J.A.M. Termeer

Unveiling Cerrado deforestation: A comparative analysis among Brazilian states

Adriano Barasal Morales, Márcio P. Laurini and Yue Dou

Adaptive policy analysis of sustainable and productive agriculture and its context

Arturas Kaklauskas, Guttila Jayasinghe, Shaw Rajib, Loreta Kaklauskiene, Ieva Ubarte, Jurga Naimaviciene, Saulius Naimavicius and Virginijus Milevicius

Bridging policy and space: A GIS-AHP framework for sustainable industrial land-use governance in secondary cities—evidence from Adama, Ethiopia

Dejene Tesema Bulti and Anteneh Lemmi Eshete

Volume 166, issue C, 2026

Seeing the good for the trees: Tree cover expansion and the notion of the ‘good farmer’

Mark Riley, Stephen McConnachie, Maddy Pearson, Beth Brockett and Katy Spencer

Hybrid land governance and customary tenure: Coexistence of communitarian and contractarian practices in Naraiyawa Village, Fiji

Doni Wainiqolo, Joeli Varo and Digby Race

The missing link: Comparing mass appraisal techniques and their implications for urban land valuation policies in Latin America

Juan Pablo Carranza, Eduardo León Bologna and Carlos María Lucca

Challenges of change: Insights into land use transformations and social conflict in highland regions

Anita Kukulska-Kozieł, Facundo Rojas, Selim Bayraktar, Tomasz Noszczyk, Julián Ramírez Guirao, Julia Gorzelany, Osvaldo Sironi, Fernando Ruiz Peyré, Eren Dağra Sökmen, Daniel Roberto Pizzolato and Józef Hernik

The impact of land redevelopment on industrial structure upgrading in the context of urban regeneration

Chenxin Pan and Jie Chen

Learning from growth regions: Exploring optimal paths for shrinking built-up areas using machine learning and case-based reasoning

Qingsong He, Yukun Jiang, Dang Wu and Chao Wu

Exploring the influence of future land use changes on the cultural ecosystem services in a fast-developing region

Qiqi Zhao, Dengshuai Chen, Sida Wan, Yanming Chen, Manchun Li, Hugo Thierry and Kate Sherren

Smallholder farm management under evolving land institutions: Evidence from Zambia

Jordan Chamberlin, William Burke and Hambulo Ngoma

Decommissioning gas stations in Seoul: Determinants of closure and land-use transitions

Jihyun Han and Saehoon Kim

The politics of megaprojects in Istanbul through a critical analysis of the Kanal Istanbul project

Semra Akay

How compound climate extremes reconfigure the urban development-ecological livability trade-off across China: A production possibility frontier perspective

Sipei Pan, Walter T. de Vries, Jiale Liang, Dan Yi, Wanxu Chen, Jialin Yi and Jie Guo

A GeoAI-driven multi-criteria land-use suitability model of flood-prone Lagos, Nigeria

Opeyemi Aniramu, Olamide Iyanda, Chika David Egenus, Ezekiel Gangaya John and Oluwagbenga Orimoogunje

Synergies between interventions: The Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR) and REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon

Adriana Molina-Garzón, Carolina Gueiros and Erin O. Sills

How green finance drives urban land green use efficiency: Evidence and lessons from China

Le Sun and Huan Li

Spatial modelling of land degradation and restoration dynamics in mining-affected landscapes in Ghana

Ambrose Derzu, Jonas Ayaribilla Akudugu, Abdul-Wadood Moomen, Lily-Lisa Yevugah and Louvis Boakye

Urban planning with informality in mind: Evidence from Casablanca, Morocco

Omar Ben Haman

How does financialization drive land-use transition? Evidence from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area in China

Bo Niu, Fenghua Pan and Youting Duan

Habitat quality degradation in Chinese nature reserves has been mitigated—based on habitat quality observations from 2010 to 2020

Zhenying Han, Yu Huang, Weiqun Lei, Lei Jing and Wenmin Hu

Volume 165, issue C, 2026

Modern approaches to building interpretable models of the property market using machine learning on the base of mass cadastral valuation

Alexey S. Tanashkin, Irina G. Tanashkina and Alexander S. Maksimchuik

Diverse interplay of grey and green space in distinct Asian arid and semi-arid cities

Lifeng Zhao, Li Tian, Jiquan Chen, Zhenbo Wang, Zitao Yang, Chen Song and Pengzhen Ma

Carbon sink conservation: Cost-effective spatial priorities and feasible management policies for China

Jingyi Liu, Menghan Zhang, Yu Xia, Longfeng Wu and Chongxian Chen

Exploring drivers and motivations behind garden management for climate change adaptation

J. Teerlinck, K. Van Meerbeek, K. Wittemans, V. Dewaelheyns, P. Raymaekers, F. Lange, T. Steen and B. Somers

Reforming land valuation and taxation in Ukraine: A path towards greater sustainability, fairness, and transparency

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali, Eduard Bukin and Andrii Martyn

Finding potential land use policies for transboundary river basin to resolve harsh land-population relationship under flood risks: Evidence from Lancang-Mekong River Basin

Songhua Huan

Perceptions, sustainability and forest cover associated to public programs for coffee production in the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico

Milton Javier Rubiano-Guzmán, Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Citlalli López-Binnqüist, Aiora Zabala, Esperanza Arnés and Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez

Urban sprawl in Latin America: A systematic review of the existing literature and emerging insights

Reynaldo Hinojosa-Contreras, Eric Gielen, José-Sergio Palencia-Jiménez and Isidro Cantarino-Martí

Biodiversity offsets in a world of land scarcity: A comparative study of legal tools for land securement

Johannes Tobias Habermann and Håvard Bergheim

Spatial variation of artificial intelligence’s impact on carbon-neutral processes in China: A perspective of enterprise layouts

Jiao Liu, Yaobin Liu, Shuoshuo Li, Guoen Wei and Xi Tian

The processes, patterns, and functional differentiation of land-use system evolution in China

Guipeng Zhou and Hualou Long

Computational intelligence based land-use allocation approaches for mixed use areas

Sabab Aosaf, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, Afsana Haque and M. Sohel Rahman

High-speed rail, land-use transformation, and natural capital depletion: A comparative analysis of China and Japan

Sunbin Yoo, Junya Kumagai, Bingqi Zhang and Longfei Zheng

Spatiotemporal dynamics and suitability of greenhouse agriculture in China: A GEE-based analysis for sustainable land use planning in Henan Province

Qifan Wu, Haoqiang Tong, Fuyuan Su, Shilong Hao, Long Han, Chongqin Gao, Kexiang Qiang, Yuguan Zhang, Yinghong Guo, Hang Xu and Hailong He

Developing an integrated framework for 3D cadastre in Iran

Jalil Jafari, Ali Asghar Alesheikh and Behnam Atazadeh

From soil to society: A transdisciplinary assessment of farmers' adoption of agroecology through the social-ecological systems framework in Algeria

Seyhan Sevde Cagiran, Amélie Bourceret and Sophie Drogue

Funding models for scaling soil health: Assessing the economic viability and inclusiveness of carbon farming projects in Kenya

Friederike Schilling

Land cover change dynamics: Leveraging time series geospatial data for informed restoration in Tanzania

Richard A. Giliba

Capitalization of direct payments and agricultural land rental prices in the Czech Republic

Michal Boranek, Katerina Pixova, Jan Calta and Petr Sklenicka

Regulatory frameworks and policy innovations for agroecology in the Mediterranean: Comparative insights, challenges, and global prospects for sustainable transition

Giuseppe Timpanaro, Bissanti Guido, Giulio Cascone, Paolo Guarnaccia and Vera Teresa Foti

Sustainable intensification and land use efficiency among smallholder maize farmers in northern Ghana

Habtamu Alem, Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah and Miroslava Bavorova

Dynamic patterns of constraints, drivers and impacts of land-based aquaculture areas and their implications: A case of Guangdong, China from 1990 to 2020

Ku Gao, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Feilin Lai and Junyao Zhang

Conflict and migration as drivers of farmland abandonment in Cameroon

Mustapha Yakubu Madaki, Ayat Ullah, Rooney Nshing, Oluwaseyi Adurapemi Olasoji, Alexander Prishchepov, He Yin and Miroslava Bavorova

Reconstruction of cropland distribution in Northeast China from 1700 to 2020: A high-resolution gridded dataset and suitability-based allocation model

Gefei Tan and Haiyan Fang

Risk governance in urban planning: A comprehensive policy analysis in the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation Plan, London

Sina Ataee, Hamid Abdolabadi, Farzaneh Abedian Aval, Santosh Bhandari, Emad Mahjoobi, Hélder Relvas and Myriam Lopes

Socio-economic, structural, and policy drivers of agroforestry in Great Britain

Francisco Areal, Kyriaki Remoundou, Beth Clark, Shan Jin, Rao Fu, Felix Eigenbrod, Martin Lukac, Yit Arn Teh and Lynn J. Frewer