Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 168, issue C, 2026

Opportunity costs of rewetting agriculturally used organic soils in Germany

Niklas Domke, Alexander Gocht, Sebastian Neuenfeldt, Gideon Okpoti Tetteh, Xinxin Yang and Harald Grethe

Transboundary ecosystem service flows in Central Asia: Enhancing global sustainable development goals (SDGs) through the grain–water-carbon-culture network (GWCCN)

Jiangyue Li, Philippe De Maeyer, Tim Van de Voorde, Xi Chen and Yaoming Li

Land use change in rural Bhutan – Implications for forest carbon stocks and climate change mitigation

Sigyel Delma, Don Gilmour, Katherine Warner, Karma Jigme Temphel and John Herbohn

Land concentration, market regulation, and rural development: Rethinking agricultural land governance in Ukraine

Shamil Ibatullin, Yosyp Dorosh, Oksana Sakal, Vitaliy Krupin and Julia Tsybulska

Comparative spatio-temporal and morphological analysis of urban growth using local climate zones in southern Chile

Mauricio Morales, Karin Pfeffer, Jon Wang, Francisco Maturana and Nina Schwarz

Stadium sitings: A before and after look at land use changes and how these reflect urban agendas

Dwayne Marshall Baker, Miriam Solis, Kaylyn Levine and Noah Cohen

The double-edged impact of inclusive urban land redevelopment in China: Welfare gains and urban disparities

Linzi Zheng, Yongjie Zheng and Qingsong He

Compact urban development and green space accessibility: Micro-evidence from Chinese cities

Shuaishuai Han, Wan Li, Mei-Po Kwan, Bindong Sun and Qianqian Liu

Applying real options theory to farmers’ afforestation decisions in Ireland

Laqiqige Zhu and O’Hagan-Luff, Martha

Of wineries and olive trees: Political institutions and land use changes in Portugal

António F. Tavares

Stage-specific integrated resilience of urban drainage systems through nature-based solutions

Luyao Cen, Yixiao Yang, Bin Chen and Hao Wang

Instrumental and normative perspectives on non-compliance with urban planning and development regulations in Ghana

Prince Aboagye Anokye, Stephen B. Liwur, Justice P. Tuffour and Frank Addo Kuffour

Economic, environmental, and spatial impacts of Brazil's Minha Casa Minha Vida program

Luan Marca, Luis Fernando Tavares Vieira Braga, Adelar Fochezatto and Augusto Mussi Alvim

Shifting from planning-centric to community-centric transit-oriented development: Changing travel behaviour

Esraa Elmarakby

Exploratory bibliometrics: The scientometric analysis and visualization of land suitability

Leila Ahadi and Mohsen Kalantari

The carbon reduction effects of industrial land transition: Intelligently constructed dataset of 16,067 parcels reveals multi-dimensional interactions and nonlinear mechanisms

Weilong Kong, Yuxin Pan, Huixin Zhou, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Dong Zhang, Ling Tang, Zhi Zhang, Zhengfeng Zhang and Qiyu Hu

Optimal cultivated land operation scale for sustainable agriculture: A global multi-objective optimization framework balancing yield, income and emission

Liu Cuicui, Walter Timo de Vries, Li Fei and Xufeng Cui

Balancing climate and biodiversity: Assessing the socioeconomic impacts of the 30-by-30 target with climate warming constraints

Kevin Lin Yang, C. Adam Schlosser and Angelo Gurgel

Sustainable flood management in nonurban-urban watersheds using green-grey infrastructures: A cooperative perspective

Ghazi Al-Rawas, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Mohammad Reza Hassani, Seyyed Farid Mousavi Janbehsarayi and Mohammad Hossein Niksokhan

From data inconsistency to reliable SDG 11.3.1 monitoring: A global multi-dataset assessment of land use efficiency

Weipeng Lu and Qihao Weng

Tracing the pathways and drivers of imbalances in global land system pressures

Wenjie Fu, Amy E. Frazier and Shougeng Hu

The UNESCO Global Geopark model for sustainable development in marginalised areas: Investigating perceptions and social acceptance in a local context

Nazgul Esengulova, Antonio Lopolito, Pasquale Pazienza and Caterina De Lucia

Regional agricultural diversity for preparedness and resilience to extreme weather: Evidence from Sweden

Thomas Slijper

From sectoral silos to policy coherence: Biodiversity integration in EU land-use and climate policies

Mihai Cristian Adamescu, D’Amato, Dalia, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Kinga Krauze, Renata Włodarczyk-Marciniak, Georgia Cosor, Magdalena Bucur and Samuli Pitzén

Limited impact of solar energy expansion on agricultural production and crop prices in the United States

Jerome Dumortier and Rafael M. Almeida

How agricultural are rural areas of Europe? Mapping European agriculture from core to periphery

Jüri Lillemets and Ants-Hannes Viira

Urbanizing commons lands: Ambiguous tenure regimes and the challenges of land regularization in Guadalajara Metropolitan Region, Mexico

Mariana Reyes-Carranza, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Ayona Datta and Raúl Agraz Joya

Who pays for a protected Earth? Unequal economic exposure in the race to GBF Target 3

Adam Poupard and Gabriel Santos Carneiro

How to defend farmers’ incomes under physical climate risks: The role of rural financial instruments in China

Xinxin Yu, Mingdong Jiang and Xiaomei Shen

Land-use trade-offs of utility-scale solar power: An NDVI-based assessment of ecological impacts and recovery trajectories

Zhengsheng Yu and Tianle Liu

Judicial big data reveals systemic risks in China’s transfer of development rights

Jia-He Zhou, Weilong Kong, Zhengfeng Zhang and Walter T. de Vries

Corrigendum to “Globalization of forest land use: Increasing threats on climate-vulnerable regions” [Land Use Policy 132 (2023) 106798]

Siyi Kan, Bin Chen and Guoqian Chen

Effects of simplified information on voluntary adoption of sustainable land management technologies in the Ethiopian highlands: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

Takeshi Abe, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Mitsuru Tsubo, Ayele Almaw Fenta, Zerihun Nigussie, Nigus Tadesse, Anteneh Wubet, Taye Minichil Meshesha, Biruk Yazie Wubetie and Samuel Berihun Kassa

Empowering the world’s rooftops: Global land suitability and potential of photovoltaics

Shiyuan Wang, Mingqiang Guo, Wei Cao, Ying Huang and Rongjun Qin

Reducing depletion, protecting natural resources in Africa: Beyond the direct role of e-government

Isaac Ketu and Arsene Mouongue Kelly

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