Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 171, issue C, 2026

Biosphere Reserves as Boundary Organisations that support landscape governance: Analysing the Biosphere for Baltic network

Charles Westerberg, Ralph Tafon and Michael Gilek

Global conservation imaginaries and local realities: Rethinking community-based natural resources management in Northeast Madagascar

Jane Slentz-Kesler, William G. Moseley, Sandolin Raharinirina and Xavier Haro-Carrión

Cropland abandonment threatens food security in rural Nepal: Understanding the role of long-term and seasonal migration

Qi Zhang, Conghe Song, Sophia A. Graybill, Erin O. Sills, Rajan Parajuli and Richard E. Bilsborrow

Does industrial land bias crowd out social public services? Evidence from China

Zekun Fan, Zhihao He and Weidong Qu

Integrating landscape multifunctionality into the identification of potential land use conflict zones in cultural landscapes

Xuewei Zhang, Shiying Li, Tao He, Wei Ren and Fangzheng Li

Comparing participatory and expert‑led decisions: Insights from participatory planning of nature‑based solutions for advancing land degradation neutrality in northern Tanzania

Cynthia Nneka Olumba, Jane R. Rickson, Anna Rabinovich, Jeremy Lind, Kelvin Mtei, Amsalu Nebiyu, Ana Leal, John Drury, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Akida Meya, Theobald Ngobyah and Alpha Laizer

Urban expansion, informality and climate change in intermediate cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and opportunities

Jobssuel Alexander Eusebio Alvarez, Eric Gielen and José-Sergio Palencia-Jiménez

How government performance, informational environment, trust, and traditional authority shape local land governance in Africa

Stephen Kehinde Medase and Maxwell Sifuna

‘Rentierism’ at the peri-urban edge: Studentification, speculative land markets, and the uneven geographies of gentrification in Ghana

Frederick Mensah, Stephen B. Liwur, Francisca Agyei and Michael Osei Asibey

A methodological framework for integrated climate adaptation and mitigation assessment in urban design

Guglielmo Ricciardi, Guido Callegari and Mattia Federico Leone

Impact of reverse rural-urban migration on farmland transfer: Empirical evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Qianlong Yang, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yilin Gan, Zhenfa Tu and Jiaxing Cui

When streets collide: Urban policy responses to informal–formal work conflicts

Hashem Dadashpoor, Mana Vahidbafandeh and Mohammad Mehdi Panahi

Behavioral drivers of the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: A best-worst scaling experiment among Italian winegrowers

Claudia Stefania Gondos, Mirta Casati, Margherita Muzzillo, Vincenzina Caputo and Elena Castellari

Toward a responsibility system in China’s community carbon forestry management: A practice based on ordered polycentric governance

Bohao Jin, Yanqiang Du and Xianlei Ma

Ecosystem services supplied by urban green corridors with varying degrees of community involvement

Kara Rüber, Lars Bodum and Thomas Elliot

Enhancing climate adaptation through urban park planning: Modelling high-temperature visitation patterns via big data in Beijing

Shuocun Chen, Chaoyue Yu, Lu Niu, Zhengfeng Zhang and Wenjing Han

Grey fields in rural China: Industrial pollution and agricultural productivity losses

Sixuan Luo

Assessing the alignment of land consolidation policies with the Sustainable Development Goals: A case study of China

Yasi Tian, Yice Zhang and Yan Zhang

An XGBoost-GAN framework for mapping PM2.5 and NO2 and exploring land-use scenarios in the Sichuan Basin

Junpai Chen, Yuxuan Tian, Junjie Yin, Xiaojing Zhu, Chenshuo Ma, Hao Zheng, Philip K. Hopke and Yuanxun Zhang

Sustainable urban growth scenario for climate-vulnerable coastal cities: An analysis based on ubiquitous big data and a hybrid fuzzy-cellular automata

Mehdi Azari, Sina Sadeghfam and Seyed Mostafa Hedayatnezhad Kashi

Long-term impact of 3-D urban expansion on the thermal environment in the Yangtze River Delta region, China

Chenglong Yin, Ruishan Chen, Xiangming Xiao, Yi Yin, Tim Van de Voorde, Yinshuai Li, Nan Jia, Hong Wei, Li Pan, Fei Meng, Yanbin Chen, Bo Xiong, Jiaoguo Ma, Tianhui Zhou and Chengxin Wang

Heterogeneous climate risks for China's GI products under the China-EU Agreement: Disentangling effects across product categories and protection boundaries?

Yiying Hong, Zhenbang Ma, Sijian Wang, Ruisi Luo, Yipeng Wang, Wenli Qiang, Imanmadi Duman and Ermekov Farabi Kerimbaevich

How policy addressees intend to respond to EU policy change? A cross-country survey analysis of forest owner behavioral types and responses to EU biodiversity and climate objectives

Metodi Sotirov, Jens Nilsson, Karin Beland-Lindahl, Mireia Pecurul-Botines, Krzysztof Niedzialkowski, Zala Uhan, Núria Aquilué, Joana Nabau, Jeanne-Lazya Roux, Marcin Mielewczyk, Antonio Basilicata and Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh

Exploring the determinants and recursive influences of land degradation and climate change adaptation technologies in Ethiopia: Evidence from a recursive multivariate probit model

Atalel Wubalem, Jan Cools, Zerihun Nigussie, Charlotte Fabri, Amare Sewnet Minale, Sophie Van Schoubroeck, Wubante Fetene Admasu, Bosena Tegegne, Sofie Annys, Tesfaye Shiferaw, Amaury Frankl, Enyew Adgo and Steven Van Passel

When co-managed conservation fails: Environmental degradation and state-backed dispossession of indigenous lands in communal reserves in the Peruvian Amazon

Hernán Manrique, Daniel Hernando, Dennis Meza, Iván Brehaut and Constanza Parra

Customary property rights and urban property values: Insights from Ingonyama Trust lands in Durban, South Africa

A. Panman, C. Marx, G.M. Lincoln, N. Lozano-Gracia, R.J. Hansmann and J. Houghton

Is Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) feasible? The impact of land use and market-based tools on carbon storage

Han Wang, Qing Kang, Zhoupeng Chen, Fengqin Li and Xin Nie

Measuring adaptation in action: Uncovering agricultural land-use responses to changing yields and prices

Mansi Nagpal, Christian Klassert, Jasmin Heilemann, Bernd Klauer and Erik Gawel

The European No Net Land Take objective: A meta-challenge

Antoine Decoville and Frédéric Durand

Layered land rights under government-led decentralization: Implications for land value capture implementation in Jakarta, Indonesia

Yescha Nuradisa Ekarachmi Danandjojo, Samira Ramezani and Johan Woltjer

From legitimization to structured legalization: A governance framework from Türkiye’s 2018 zoning amnesty

Orhan Ercan, Orhan Mataracı, Ümit Gedik and Erdem Ercan

Water management regulates vegetation recovery in photovoltaic farms across China

Yueran Hu, Junze Zhang, Xiaoming Feng, Gazi Salah Uddin, Lingfan Wan, Sitong Cai, Yue Guo and Bojie Fu

De facto land consolidation leads to exclusion: The role of commodity expansion in Salamina, Colombia

Andres Suarez

Emergency land take, road-network centrality and post-disaster land-use policy: Evidence from the post-earthquake reconstruction of L’Aquila, Italy

Federico Mara, Cristina Montaldi, Francesco Zullo and Valerio Cutini

From global benchmarking to local policy readiness: Assessing governance capacity for multipurpose cadastre implementation

Riyanatou Medessi, Tchaa Boukpessi and El-Ayachi Moha

Land tenure security and soil health: Evidence from Uganda

Richard Alioma, Denis Gobo and Zac Gidongo Halasi

Climate-policy pathways reshape cropland-expansion-driven deforestation and agricultural-carbon trade-off imbalance in the Amazon

Wencang Shen, Zhengfeng Zhang, Walter Timo de Vries, Yuanyuan Yang, He Gao and Lu Niu

The impact of high land use costs and mining royalties on mining operating costs in Turkey

Taşkın Deniz Yıldız

Urban form under China’s politico-economic transition: The role of decentralization, marketization, globalization, and regionalization in the Greater Bay Area

Shiyi Wang, Yangyi Wu and Xianchun Zhang

High-resolution mapping of global deforestation footprints and livelihood inequalities: Toward equitable forest governance

Dongmei Tang, Yuanzhi Yao, Hao Shi, Yecheng Xu, Xiaojuan Liu, Minyi Gao, Bingqi Xie and Xia Li

Ecological impacts and countermeasures for future solar photovoltaic expansion: Based on the assessment and planning of ecosystem services

Ruijing Wang, Jirui Gong, Guisen Yang, Shangpeng Zhang, Tong Wang, Yaohong Yu, Qin Xie, Qilu Zhuang, Zongpeng Zhang and Jinshuo Lian

Can the ecological transition of cropland use narrow rural-urban income inequality? Evidence from China’s Huang-Huai-Hai Region

Linpeng Yang, Yansui Liu, Cong Ou and Yurui Li

A review of collective agri-environmental schemes using a human–AI framework

Robert Huber, Sara Ammann, Claudia Bethwell, Caitriona Carlin, Viviane Fahrni, Andrea Fürholz, Katrin Karner, Raja Imran Hussain, Gesche Kindermann, Monika Suškevičs, Sandra Uthes, Martin Schönhart and Christian Stetter

Urban agriculture as a land-use policy instrument for protecting peri-urban agricultural land: A grid-based analysis from Erzurum, Türkiye

Selvi Karasungur and Merve Yavaş

Multidimensional efficiency and institutional scale heterogeneity in protected areas: Evidence from Italy

Giovanni Signorello, Marika Cerro, Laura Giuffrida and Maria De Salvo

Understanding land use philosophy through ontology and epistemology

Yousef Sakieh and Teea Kortetmäki

Socioeconomic drivers of livestock browsing, and its impact on Chilean forests

René Reyes, Gerardo Vergara-Asenjo and Yessenia Aedo

Land-use policy architectures for brownfield regeneration: A comparative analysis of Spain and the Netherlands

Albert Lladó-Martínez

From waste to resilience: A circular biochar framework for climate-smart agriculture in Africa

Patrick T. Sekoai and Olivier Habimana

Spatial spillovers and inequality in forest carbon emissions: Implications for land-use policy in Ethiopia

Gemedo Furo, Zhiwen Gong, Amenu Leta Duguma and Gezahegne Seyoum

From delineation to implementation of urban development boundaries: A two-stage game of land development rights

Qilong Wang, Yong Liu, Qiaoran Yang, Qi Yin and Wenze Yue