Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 160, issue C, 2026

An assessment of the ecosystem services content of green plans as an evaluation proxy for the delivery of urban green infrastructure

Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo, Alan Bond, Natalia Mitie Mizutani, Juliana Siqueira-Gay and Gracielli Folli Monteiro

Amazon deforestation: Drivers, damages, and policies

Alipio Ferreira

Scale mismatches and the value of social networks in access to sanitation facilities in Mwanza City, Tanzania: A Socio-Ecological Network analysis

Chaeka Semango Mwesongo

Land use as a target for terrorism: A geospatial and temporal framework of terrorist preferences analysis in Egypt

Tamer A. Al-Sabbagh, Bahaa Mohamadi, Mohamed O. Abu Ghazala and Ali Younes

Optimizing developed cultivated pastures for sustainable rangeland management: Evidence of ecological efficiency from China’s agro-pastoral ecotone

Yaya Zhang, Zhuohui Ye and Shuhao Tan

Evaluating the spatial-temporal impact of urban nature on urban vitality in Vancouver: A social media and GPS data approach

Yongming Huang, Jiani Du, Mingze Chen, Yuxuan Lin, Shaopo Huang and Yuxuan Cai

The hidden cost of uncertainty: How policy instability delays industrial land development in Shanghai, China

Caiwei Zhang, Helen X.H. Bao, Lennon H.T. Choy and K.W. Chau

Asymmetric thermal effects of urban vegetation greening and browning

Yue Cao, Chuanglin Fang, Guangdong Li, Yuxue Feng, Luhan Li and Jianfeng Sun

Influence pathways of village livelihood capital on the idle homesteads reuse

Xueqian Ding, Li Wang and Yongzhong Tan

Unveiling soil stewardship: plural values in the management of the Montado agro-silvo-pastoral system in Portugal

Greta Winkler and Teresa Pinto-Correia

Rapid expansion of photovoltaic land in China's coastal regions: A doubling from 2020 to 2023

Luguang Jiang, Ye Liu and Liwen Yang

The evolving landscape of farmland ownership in Europe: Implications for food system sustainability

Elin Slätmo, Karina Berbert Bruno and Tristan Berchoux

Unlocking patterns in urban land use efficiency: A global analysis using XGBoost and Bayesian networks

Alberto Gianoli

Integrating innovative design strategies in advancing sustainable housing in Kenya

David Njuguna Mathu, Bernadette Mukhwana Wanjala, Edward Otieno Owino and Salome Wambui Richu

Agricultural intensification increases rather than reduces pressure on the Amazon Forest: Jevons' paradox prevails in the cases of soy and cattle in Brazil (2001–2021)

Francisco de Assis Costa

Revisiting (neo)liberalism in land policy: Trends in property rights regimes across Europe

Sonia Guelton, Małgorzata Barbara Havel, Andreas Hengstermann, Nikos Karadimitriou, Sina Shahab, Vida Maliene and Müge Tunaer-Vural

“Too poor to migrate”: A narrative of labor migration and land fragmentation in Uganda

Kashi Kafle, Naureen Fatema, Shahriar Kibriya, Yuanhang Wang and Ronald Twongyirwe

Predisposing factors of sugarcane abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring policy implications

Pedro Ivo Bastos de Castro, Sven Lautenbach and Raúl Vicens

Private funding for soil health: Private individuals’ preferences for ecosystem services and biodiversity certificates

Ferdinand Lang, Cheng Chen, Mohammed Hussen Alemu, Thomas Lundhede, Søren Bøye Olsen and Bettina Matzdorf

Global evolution of ecosystem services research in watersheds: Insights from large language models

Zhonghao Zhang, Zegui He, Kexin Su, Shuyao Wu and Lumeng Liu

Exploring efficiency and equity in modes of land rights acquisition under customary tenure systems: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Malawi

Timothy Mtumbuka

Volume 159, issue C, 2025

Managing ‘great expectations’: What can land administration realistically achieve?

Oliver Scanlan, Walter Timo de Vries, Serene Ho and Dik Roth

Reviewing the evidence on land tenure and governance: An overview of the impact evaluation literature and lessons learned

Heather Huntington and Jennifer Lisher

Gradual or leapfrog? Decoding the characteristics and patterns of urban redevelopment in rapidly developing megacities, China

Zhi Cai, He Zhu and Yan Tang

Can farmers’ digital economy participation promote their conservation tillage behavior under the perspective of agricultural industry chain?

Muziyun Liu, Jinyu Wang and Hai Li

Dynamics of the sugarcane-energy complex and land structure in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, between 1996 and 2017

José Giacomo Baccarin

Decision-making on crop sequence diversification in the Argentine pampas

Priscila B. Cano, Silvina M. Cabrini and Santiago L. Poggio

Spatial pattern and driving force of agricultural land crime in the Yangtze River Delta, China: From a coordination perspective of administrative and criminal sanctions

Yu Gao and Shuifeng Zhang

How would urban green spaces diverge under different development strategies? Comparison between Shenzhen and Zhuhai

Zixuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, Runmin Lei, Fan Yang and Peimin Chen

Informal trading and spatial competitiveness in African Cities: Does proximity and residential density matter in Bulawayo’s Markets?

Buhle Dube and Trynos Gumbo

Peatland use and peat soil land cover types in Ireland: Implications for the calculation of GHG emissions in the context of climate action

L. Gilet, W. Habib, E. Aitova, K.A. Byrne, C.A. Farrell, O. Fenton, R. Flynn, O’Leary, D., T.R. Morley, P. Tuohy, S. Regan, F. Renou-Wilson, D. Wilson and J. Connolly

Impact of conflicts on agricultural crop investment in rural areas: Policy insight from a nationally representative survey dataset

Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Adelayo Adeoye, Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso and Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi

Asset, voice, leverage? Women’s property ownership and household decision-making in Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras

Anna Calasanti

The effectiveness of spatial planning in preventing the expansion of built-up areas in the buffer zones of Polish national parks

Michał Jakiel

Estimating the heterogeneous effects of a utility-scale solar facility on house prices

Michael Cary, Susan Chen, Jessica Douthit, Njeri Jackson, Michael McCloud and Benjamin Rosner

Land tenure (in) security in the context of urban flood risk in Ghana

Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Marney E. Isaac and Thembela Kepe

Potential of India’s AFOLU sector in achieving net zero: A systematic review of land-based mitigation strategies

Srishti Gwal, Aditya Sharma, Andrew Pascale, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Ganesh Hegde and Chris Greig

Public online attention and firm location decisions: Evidence from 286 cities in China

Xiangdong Sun, Xinyi Zheng and Zisheng Song

Leveraging green roof technology: Stakeholder analysis of sustainable urban landscape in the developing regions of South Asia

Mehak Shehzad, Adnan Younis, Sabir Aziz, Muhammad Khizar, Noor ul Ain and Asad Shabbir

The impact of climate risk on rural land transfer:Evidence from 360 Chinese villages

Haoran Wei and Yulin Liu

Land use transitions and the decline of family farming in Southeastern Brazil: Patterns, pressures, and environmental trade-offs

Renata Evangelista de Oliveira, Leonardo Pinto de Magalhães, Anderson de Souza Gallo, Julia Alves de Oliveira and Adriana Cavalieri Sais

Assessing the impact of land tenure security on farm-level investment in soil and water conservation practices: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Malawi

Nicholas D. Mkandawire, Julius Mangisoni, Innocent Pangapanga and Kennedy Machila

Recultivating abandoned cropland intensifies the trade-off between climate change mitigation and food security within the Yangtze River Basin, China

Yuqiao Long, Jing Sun, Gilles Colinet, Jian Peng, Joost Wellens, Xiuchun Dong, Chuya Wang, Ping Huang, Wenbin Wu and Jeroen Meersmans

Spatial modeling of urban expansion for the territorial management of Ilha Comprida – Brazil

Hedla Mendonça Andrade, Angela Terumi Fushita and Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos

Reducing cropland fragmentation may not be universally beneficial at increasing land use efficiency: Evidence from multiscale spatial analysis of Huang-Huai-Hai region, China

Shuyi Ren, Sijing Ye, Leina Zhang, Peichao Gao, Pablo Tittonell and Changqing Song

A large language model-based approach to building the knowledge graph for master plan: A case study in Guangzhou, China

Wusiqin Zhang, Yimin Chen, Xiaoping Liu and Honghui Zhang

Exploring forest owners’ perspectives and their willingness to accept incentives to adopt climate-smart forestry practices in South Carolina, USA

Miah Maye M. Pormon, Joan U. Ureta and Marzieh Motallebi

Integrating co-management in black soil conservation: Stakeholders' perspectives in Baiquan, China

Zheng Cai, Shengsheng Li, Guoming Du and Yuheng Li

Land rights, natural resources management, climate change and ethno-politics in postcolonial Botswana

Israel R. Blackie, France Maphosa, Hesekia Garekae and Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando

Assessing the comprehensiveness of the land policy toolbox: An analytical framework

Tuulia Puustinen, Eero Valtonen, Pauliina Krigsholm and Heidi Falkenbach

Beyond the trees: Equity and justice in Nepal’s forest restoration

Rishikesh Pandey, Naya Sharma Paudel, Upama Koju, François Libois and Mani Nepal

Governance of sponge landscapes in sandy uplands of the Netherlands: Between resilience and reluctance

Jochum van Montfoort and Kris Lulofs

Economic dynamics of the Italian agricultural land structure

Caterina Sciortino, Filippo Sgroi and Federico Modica

Blue landscape fragmentation and ecosystem health in river source regions: A case of Sanjiangyuan National Park, China

Wenhao Fan, Zehui Sun and Yanyun Luo

Can urban vitality be seen? Video analytics of social interaction and land use

Wenjie Chen, Asya Natapov and Yasir Ali

“All concerns me”: Collaborative governance in pre-regeneration of public rental housing in Hong Kong from the boundary-work perspective

Weixuan Chen, Izzy Yi Jian, Esther Ng and Kar Him Mo

Horizontal carbon compensation for cropland use: A policy tool for promoting the equitable utilization of cropland resources

Jia Li, Xinyu Wu, Limin Jiao, Danling Chen, Xinhai Lu, Jiu Zhu and Zhaoyi Wan

Has rural depopulation reduced agricultural land use efficiency? Mediating roles of cropland abandonment, scale operation, and cultivation structure

Shengdong Yang, Guanghui Jiang and Haibo Yu