Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 169, issue C, 2026

Beyond top-down policymaking: Policymaker–landowner interaction promotes reforestation in a strategy game

Simona Rödlach, Giacomo Vaccario, Clare Cooper, Jaboury Ghazoul and Ivan P. Novotny

Spatio-temporal analysis of vegetation cover transitions and underlying governance approaches in Malawi, Southern Africa

Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Dan Wanyama and Leo C. Zulu

What motivates Irish farmers to participate in new afforestation schemes: Financial or environmental drivers?

Zohreh Rafiee, James Breen, Kevin Kilcline and Mohammad Mohammadrezaei

A stakeholder-integrated land-use model for nature conservation in metropolitan areas: The case of the Randstad, Netherlands

Yinuo Zhou, Shahryar Sarabi, Bin Zhang and Qi Han

Estimating the value of land in Iran’s economy

Ensieh Mosaddeghi and Mohammadbagher Asadi

An assessment of Zimbabwe's post-independence land reforms

Partson Paradza

Balancing growth and conservation: Land-use policy scenarios for Uruguay’s grasslands

Melanie Schweikart, Leonardo R. Ramírez and Ina Säumel

Deagrarianization and socioeconomic drivers of forest cover change in rural Poland

Sławomir Sioma, Monika Stanny, Łukasz Komorowski and Jarosław Socha

Land tenure security and agroecological transitions: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Angola

José do Rosário, Hycenth Tim Ndah, Carlos Marques and Lívia Madureira

Economic results and production choices of Italian arable farms under the CAP 2023–2027 first pillar reform: The role of crop rotation eco-scheme

Rebecca Buttinelli, Simone Severini and Raffaele Cortignani

Policy incentives for sustainable land use practices: Evidence from farmers’ choice behavior in dryland farming systems

Seifu Gebrehiwet, Tewodros Tadesse, Girmay Tesfay and Tafesse W. Gezahegn

Socioeconomic and environmental challenges affecting sustainable land management in Africa: A systematic review towards integrated framework proposal

Titus Adeyemi Alonge, Nabiebakye Henrietta, Michael Addaney, Jonas Ayaribilla Akudugu, Rejoice Selorm Wireko-Gyebi and Kingsley Atta Nyamekye

Exploring land cover change patterns in Hyrcanian forests through spatiotemporal trend analysis (2000–2022)

Qadir Ashournejad and Fateme Garshasbi

Mapping, quantifying and predicting future urban green infrastructure dynamics: The case study of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

Habtamu Dersso Meseganaw, Kassahun Gashu, Abenezer Wakuma Kitila and Kassaye Hussien

Understanding land use evolution for vacant residential and vacant commercial parcels in Miami, Florida

Lauren Hoover, Sudipta Dey Tirtha and Naveen Eluru

Heterogenous impacts of property rights on the climate-smart investments of farming households: Empirical evidence from Nigeria

Osayi Precious Emokpae, Edeoba William Edobor, Micheal Attah, Nneji Ifeyinwa Umeokeke, Grace Sewuese Orshio, Ododo Bukola Izekor and Sulaiman Adesina Yusuf

Climate change drives agricultural land use competition in the Paranapanema River Basin, Southeastern Brazil

Argemiro Teixeira Leite-Filho, Érica Acioli Canamary, Anaí Floriano Vasconcelos, Daniel Andrés Rodriguez, Jaqueline Carolino Santos, Maria Clara Fava, Minella Alves Martins, Sara Bastos de Oliveira and Javier Tomasella

Structural adjustment of industrial land use and economic resilience: Evidence from China's poverty-stricken counties

Jingtong Liu, Dingyang Zhou and Guanghui Jiang

The speculation trap and the distress push: Divergent pathways of peri-urban agriculture in Tanzania

Cuthbert W. Mushi and Agnes G. Kapinga

Mechanism of rural functional homeostasis transformation and policy implications in the Loess Plateau, China

Zongfeng Chen and Yansui Liu

Linking rural road quality and housing investment in China: Insights from AI-based assessment of village view imagery

Muzhe Pan, Yaofu Huang, Hailong Zhao and Xun Li

Agricultural carbon emission efficiency and its regional convergence in China: Role of land use modes and economic factors

Yiqi Zhu, Hanwei Liang, Yifei Wang and Yuran Feng

Quantify the spatial transfer effect of carbon emissions induced by non-grain conversion of cultivated land use in China

Shengming Li, Long Qian and Fuduo Li

Cognition behind land transactions: How diverse forest value orientations shape willingness, price expectations, and forestland transfer behavior in rural China

Zhang Yiwen, Huo Yiming and Wang Weiye

BGBI: A citywide-referenced and bidirectional land use mix index for planning and policy evaluation

Jorge Ubirajara Pedreira Junior, Thiago Vinícius Louro, Lucas Brandão Monteiro de Assis, Patrícia Lustosa Brito and Fabio Garboggini Bomfim

More than a population movement: Post-COVID amenity migration and the contemporary social-ecological transformation of rural working lands

David Matarrita-Cascante

Unpacking spatially explicit cropland non-agriculturalization in China based on satellite remote sensing data: A 30-year analysis of spatial patterns and conversion types

Desheng Jiang, Zhuojian Wen, Yuqi Zhong, Yuecheng Li and Guilin Liu

Composite driving mechanisms of farmland abandonment in plains and mountainous areas of China from a 1-km grid perspective

Jiayi Jiang, Sijing Ye, Longfeng Weng, Guoli Wang, Shuyi Ren, Bin Du, Peichao Gao and Changqing Song

De-localization of global cities: How advanced producer services exacerbate regional spatial inequality?

Jiaming Li and Jiachuan Liu

Land sparing and sharing: Understanding the relationship between different construction land strategies and land functions in karst areas

Lei Kang and Erqi Xu

Defining informality in a Southern European City indicators of informality in the CEP neighborhood, Palermo

Meghdad Kahvand, Marco Picone, Michelangelo Carraro, Mona Saadvandi and Annalisa Giampino

Spatiotemporal dynamics of preferential occupation of high-quality cropland by construction land expansion in china and its implications for food production potential

Shuangqing Sheng, Wei Song and Xiangzheng Deng

Disaster exposure and residential solar adoption: Urban evidence from Japan

Jian Wang, Cheng Peng, Xiugang Zhu and Xuepeng Qian

Standardizing disadvantage: How global carbon accounting methodologies undervalue China’s blue carbon assets

Luoye Chen, Zichong Chen, Donghao Jiang and Wen Sun

Land use transformations and tenure conflicts in the Cerrado-Caatinga frontier: Evidence from Piauí, Brazil

Giovana Mira de Espindola, Gilberto Camara, Vicente de Paula Sousa Júnior, Daihana Soledad Argibay and Rolf Simões

After quantification: Insights from India’s Soil Health Card scheme

Ritwick Ghosh, Ryan Nehring and Wei Zhang

Impact of gender equality on forest protection: Role of economic, social, political and energy factors

Xiaojiao Zhu and Haochang Yang

Digital twin enabled land administration systems: A multi-dimensional comparative assessment and policy pathways for Turkey

Fatih Taktak

Econobiomes: A terrestrial-based country classification for international sustainability comparison

Trichet Matthieu, Maurin Julie and Calas Julien

Responsible scaling for sustainable intensification: Dimensions of land rights and farmer realities in Northern Ghana

Prince Asiedu, Mirja Michalscheck, Bekele Hundie Kotu, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, Martina Padmanabhan and Charity Osei Amponsah

Similar patterns, different processes: Persistence and change in path-dependent land systems

Lien Imbrechts, João C. Azevedo, Rebekka Dossche, Matthias Bürgi and Peter H. Verburg

Mapping indigenous California: Agency and tribal perspectives on ancestral territorial representation

Seth LaRosa, Van Butsic, Jeremy Sorgen, Peter Nelson and Jennifer Sowerwine

Beyond land access: How agency mediates the effect of land tenure security on youth agricultural entrepreneurship in Benin?

Soulé Akinhola Adéchian, Christine Ogoudou and Mohamed Nasser Baco

Land-use change and long-term socioeconomic outcomes: Studying over six decades of global data (1960–2023)

Daria Loginova, Stefan Mann, Sabine Hoidn and Ioannis Varvaris

Granular and spatially differentiated density thresholds for No Net Land Take: A scenario-based cellular automata analysis in French territories

Igor Agbossou, Tudal Sinsin, Jean-Philippe Antoni, Gilles Vuidel and Edouard Patault

Unfolding the multisensory landscape experiences from online reviews: A large language model based approach with implications for human-centric land use policy

Yun Luo and Shiliang Su

Analyzing the economics of agroforestry within land use and land cover change: The case of the Baga-Kisimagonja ecological corridor of Tanzania

Qambemeda Nyanghura, Paulo Mandela, Lilian Binego, Felister Mombo and Ulrich Schmutz

Analysis of sustainability and regulatory compliance of land allotment for cooperative housing development in Ethiopia

Masresha Belete Asnakew, Tewachew Yirga Getie, Yeneneh Nigusie, Yeshareg Baye Simegn, Takele Abebe, Niguse Adane Derseh, Melkam Ayalew Gebru and Abirham Tarekegn Yitayih

Spatial and socio-geographical determinants of urban nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate resilience, biodiversity, and green space management

Mücahit Kaya and Barbara Sowińska-Świerkosz

Property size linked to deforestation, fragmentation and forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Ciar D. Noble, James J. Gilroy, Weslei Butturi and Carlos A. Peres

When contracts interact: Land rental portfolios and farm productivity in Tigray, north Ethiopia

Tafesse W. Gezahegn, Tewodros Tadesse and Bouali Guesmi

Modelling the structural and land use effects of support policies for the expansion of organic farming: The case of organic dairy farms in France

M. Schiavo, P.M. Aubert and C. Le Mouël

The politics of land in Israel’s solar transition: Top-down and bottom-up governance

Avri Eitan and Shira Bukchin-Peles

Navigating power: The role of a conservation NGO in recognising and securing customary forest rights for Borneo’s last nomads

Siswandi Siswandi, Nurhady Sirimorok, Micah R. Fisher, Grace Yee Wong, Maria Brockhaus and Muhammad Alif K. Sahide

Beyond surface area: Integrating volumetric green infrastructure into planning regulations to enhance equity and sustainability in an arid city

Khalid Hussein, Elnazir Ramadan, Carolynne Parry, Khaled Al Arafati, Muhagir ElKamali and Tareefa AlSumaiti

From abandonment to sustainable use: Prioritizing land consolidation with ALS-derived vegetation metrics in Małopolskie Voivodeship, southern Poland

Ela Ertunç, Piotr Bożek and Jarosław Janus