Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

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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

Volume 158, issue C, 2025

Place characteristics that determine citizens’ nature experiences in urban open spaces

Sari Suomalainen, Anne Pässilä, Allan Owens and Helena Kahiluoto

Solar Power or Forests? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Forest Land Conversion in the Northeastern United States

Christine L. Crago, Maryam Feyzollahi and Richard W. Harper

How to protect productive lands to ensure food security: The case of Northern Iran

Zahra Akbari, Bahram Imani, Eisa Pourramzan, Shahla Choobchian, Narges Siamian, Petr Sklenička, Kristina Janečková, Frank Witlox and Hossein Azadi

The effects of increasing tenure security on women’s empowerment and food security: Evidence from Ecuador

Maja Schling, Nicolás Pazos, Leonardo Corral and Marisol Inurritegui

Towards sustainable land management: A regional perspective for a comprehensive Land Degradation Assessment

Aarabhi Nambiar, Mohammed Firoz C and Sruthi Krishnan V

Unveiling policy gaps to better address the causes and drivers of tropical deforestation: A case study from the Colombian Amazon

Diego Valbuena, Jairo Santander, Javier García-Estévez and Nathalia Franco

Unpacking China's land use and trade-driven land transfers through telecoupling

Yaya Song, Xianjin Huang, Qianjing Li, Xinxian Qi, Rui Sun and Mingshu Wang

Telecoupling China's rice production: features and causes

Yuqing Yin, Xinlin Li, Yixin Yue, Jiaxin Yan, Chengcheng Yuan and Liming Liu

The long and winding road of the land reform in Madagascar since 2005: governance, implementation, and outcomes

Perrine Burnod, Emmanuelle Bouquet and Heriniaina Rakotomalala

Changes in land use within flood hazard areas between 1990 and 2018 in EU countries

Marta Borowska-Stefańska, Szymon Wiśniewski, Jan Moritz Gros, Lenka Balážovičová and Matej Masný

An equitable spatial strategy for urban green space based on reconciling growing and shrinking neighbourhoods at the parcel level

Cheng Sun, Xiaoqing Song, Jianquan Cheng, Mingjun Peng and Xiangmei Li

Asymmetrical influences of landscape compositions on subjective wellbeing

Yanwen Yun and Wenjie Wu

Soil health challenges and farmers' adaptation strategies: Transition pathways in Türkiye and the European Union

Francesco Galioto, Giovanni Dara Guccione, Sabina Asins, Javier Renovell, Akin Un, Tali Munis, Monika Vilkiene, Ieva Mockeviciene, Raimonds Kasparinskis, Baiba Dirnena, Alessandra Vaccaro, Laura Viganò, Michelle Kushnir, Martin Pisarčik, Pavel Fuksa and Francesca Varia

Integrating human-centered AI for land use policy: Insights from agricultural interventions in international development

Lindsey Moore, Mindel van de Laar, Pui Hang Wong and O’Donoghue, Cathal

The nexus of agricultural land use change and food security: A comprehensive systematic review

Freshteh Avatefi Akmal and Yaser Mohammadi

Rationale of the land market in the brazilian amazon and supply-demand oriented policies: A model and scenarios applied to Pará

Francisco de Assis Costa

How can comprehensive land management promote the urban sustainable development from the perspective of environmental sociology? – Based on an empirical study of 269 cities in China

Yifei Zhou

Evaluating the economic and land use consequences of sustainability-driven CAP reforms: Insights from an optimization approach in Italian cereal farms

Maria Teresa Cappella, Luca Nerozzi, Mario Benini, Paolo Detti and Emanuele Blasi

Typology-driven framework for revitalizing urban leftover spaces: Systematic review of practices and future research directions

Rui Qiao, Yi Sun, Siqiang Wang, Bo Lan and Chun Yin Chung

The disappearance of land use from UNFCCC decisions: A guided topic analysis

Keith Goldstein, Bruna Rodrigues, Pedro Jacobetty, Kathryn Hahn-Madole, Helge Jörgens and Nina Kolleck

Climate-smart protected areas in drylands can effectively safeguard biodiversity without expanding boundaries

Yingqing Su, Honghua Xia, Qi Feng, Wei Liu, Pengyi Zhang, Jutao Zhang, Meng Zhu, Wenju Cheng and Xinwei Yin

New quality productive forces and new-type urbanization: Analysis of coupling coordination and influencing factors in China

Zhe Guan and Peipei Pan

Can land fragmentation mitigate the impact of weather shocks? Evidence from rural Vietnam

Kim Lan Nguyen

The role of urban greening in limiting land take in case of population growth: Evidence for Europe 2005–2018

Katarzyna Kopczewska

Spatiotemporal analysis of land use changes along the upper part of the Vltava River valley since the mid-19th century

Darina Kratochvílová, Jiří Cajthaml and Zdeněk Kučera

Violation of land use regulations for allotment gardens: The case of Warsaw, Poland

Grazyna Wiejak-Roy, Jaideep Roy and Smith, Andrew, D.A.C.

From informality to influence: Nonlinear disturbances and institutional modulation in China's urban land supply

Zhang Xin, Zhigang Chen and Mei-Po Kwan

Transcending banana investments: Unraveling the hidden dynamics of Chinese land investment in Laos

Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua and Yasuyuki Kono

Maximising urban resilience using sustainable drainage systems (SuDS): Making the case for community-led urban water management

Eleanor Starkey, Edward Rollason, Sarah Cotterill, Puneeta Sreenivas and Louise Bracken

Competing frames and policy change: Greece's land administration reform from the mid-1990s to the economic crisis (2009–2018)

Evangelia Balla, Jaap Zevenbergen and Ana Mafalda Madureira

Everyday property-making: Negotiating land rights, precarity and public authority in urban Congo

Kasper Hoffmann, Mariève Pouliot, Alice Mugoli Nalunva, Christian Lund, Eric Batumike Banyanga, Bienvenu Wakusomba Mukungilwa, Stanislas Bisimwa Baganda, Jérémie Byakumbwa Mapatano, Christian Chiza Kashurha, Josaphat Musamba and Godefroid Kihangu Muzalia

Land management of paths in the countryside: A field study of access to British and Japanese Second World War pillboxes in Hong Kong

Lawrence W.C. Lai, Stephen N.G. Davies, Lennon H.T. Choy, Nixon T.H. Leung, Y.K. Tan and Ken S.T. Ching

Complex and interacting drivers of arable field abandonment in villages of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sihle Pokwana and Charlie Shackleton

Does the choice of multiple agricultural labour packages influence farm productivity and food (in)-security? Evidence from lowland rice farmers in southern Ghana

Bright Owusu Asante, Daniel Adu Ankrah and Solomon Akutinga

Environmental quality in Africa: Is the demographic dividend an asset?

Emmanuel Juakaly Wayisovia and Bruno Emmanuel Ongo Nkoa

Conservation Agriculture and sustainability of smallholder farms in Zimbabwe: Insights from a nationwide survey

Clifton Makate and Benjamine Hanyani-Mlambo

Using landscape graphs to assess the ecological relevance of biodiversity conservation plans for forest habitat networks

Anissa Bellil, Jean-Christophe Foltête, Gilles Vuidel, Emeline Comby and Paul Savary

The effects of land privatization on pasture productivity in south-eastern Kazakhstan

Eduard Bukin, Sarah Robinson and Martin Petrick

Evolution of water-carrying capacity and response law of land space pattern in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Feng Zhou, Wanshun Zhang, Xin Liu, Hong Peng, Han Xia, Ao Li, Gang Chen and Hao Wang

Towards COP29 climate equity: Multi-scale trade-driven inequality in China’s land-use carbon emissions

Shan Guo, Weiyi Xia, Yaohua Wan, Xiaofang Wu, Wenjing Han and Hossein Azadi

Transforming neighborhoods: Dynamic effects of urban renewal on commercial gentrification in Shenzhen, China

Dong Zhang and Ling Li

A systematic review of urban vitality studies: Trends and research opportunities

Quang Cuong Doan and Xiaohu Zhang

Choosing urban forest plants strategically will improve public welfare

Yu Gao, Siyao Yang, Chongyu Zhao, Xiaomei Sun, Zhi Zhang, Weikang Zhang, Huan Meng and Tong Zhang

Carbon farming: The foundation for carbon farming schemes – lessons learned from 160 European schemes

Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Ennio Facq, Irene Criscuoli, Laura B. Martínez-García, Claudia Heidecke, Leonardo Amthauer Gallardo, Andrea Martelli, Nikolas Hagemann, Bert Smit, Jennie van der Kolk, Francesco Galioto, Stéphane De Cara, Jana Poláková and Morten Graversgaard

Impact of conflict shocks on land rental market dynamics: Panel evidence from Nigeria

Opeyemi Olanrewaju, Temilolu Bamiwuye and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo

Evolving Earth observation capabilities for recent land-related EU policies

Katja Berger, Saskia Foerster, Zoltan Szantoi, Patrick Hostert, Michael Foerster, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Christelle Vancutsem, Christian Schweitzer, Robert Masolele, Johannes Reiche, Mark Dowell, Fabian Enssle, Daniela Requena Suarez, Olga Nepomshina and Martin Herold

The monetization of soil: An emerging imperative?

Giacomo Certini, Gianluca Grilli and Riccardo Scalenghe

Trade-off relationships of ecosystem services for soil retention carbon sinks in the Loess Plateau of China

Lili Zhao, Wenxuan Xin, Xinping Mao, Dongliang Shao, Qingwei Chen, Yuanji Zhu and Fengpeng Han

Program sustainability and property right factors influencing farmers' self-predicted post-program land investment behavior - Evidence from land enrolled in the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China

Chao Hu and Jiayun Dong

Social impacts from tourism development in protected areas: Comparing communities in different conservation zones of Wulingyuan World Heritage Site, China

Yuqi Zhang, Philippe Hanna and Frank Vanclay

From territorial governance to land value realities: The mediating role of master plan implementation within urban growth dynamics

Ivan Damasco Menzori, Isabel Cristina Nunes de Sousa and Luciana Márcia Gonçalves

Healthy soils as a booster to EU competitiveness

Panos Panagos, Alberto Orgiazzi, Emanuele Lugato, Guillaume Vandenesch, Laurent Thannberger, Jason C. Neff, Arjan Reijneveld, Erik Mathijs, Pascal Chapot, Sara Guerrini, Darina Štyriaková, Julian Kremers, Paul Martin, Ramon Van Der Tol, Victor Burgeon, Elena Kalimeri and Elise Van Eynde

Updating cadastral base maps: An innovative approach

Davood Shojaei, Yongxin Ye, Zezheng Zhang, Abbas Rajabifard and Fahimeh Abedi

Bottom-up hierarchical detection of territorial spatial pattern based on multi-source heterogeneous data

Fangxin Chen, Yurui Li and Yansui Liu

Local people’s preferences for housing development-associated Biodiversity Net Gain in England

Amber Butler, Ben Groom and E.J. Milner-Gulland

Compliance with mandatory conservation policies among rural properties in the Eastern Amazon

Tatiane Camila Martins Silva, Luiz Edinelson Cardoso e Cardoso, Renato Augusto Soares Rodrigues, José Maria Cardoso da Silva and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira

Linking vegetation indices and land tenure to assess passive restoration dynamics in the Brazilian Cerrado

Leonardo Balbinot, Luara Castilho Pereira, Gregório Nolazco Matus, Darllan Collins da Cunha e Silva, Ernest O. Nnadi and Kelly Cristina Tonello

Forest carbon buffers and sustainability-linked price premiums: Advancing climate resilience in Uttarakhand’s Himalayan forests

Ram Ranjan

Beyond the forest transition hypothesis: Uncovering the drivers influencing natural, planted and plantation forest area development using regression-based machine learning approaches

Julia Tandetzki, Christian Morland and Franziska Schier

Comparative building amnesty and land use policies: Insights from ten countries with a focus on Turkey

Fatih Taktak

Mechanisms of ecosystem function enhancement under land ecosystem restoration patterns and responses to multiple scenarios: A complex network approach

Juan He, Wei Zhou, Mingjie Qian, An Cao, Enmao Zha and Xueyi Shi

Is green gentrification a pernicious paradox in the urban greening process?

Jie Wang, Yecui Hu and Xiaoling Zhang

Characterization of agricultural spaces engaged in proximity-based alternative food networks: The southeastern France case study

Juliette Benedetti, Stéphane Bouissou and Karine Emsellem

Land reuse for carbon mitigation: Decarbonization potential of solar photovoltaics in China's open-pit mining areas

Sheng Xiao, He Ren, Yanling Zhao, Tingting He, Chunlin Huang, Qixiang Chen, Lifan Zhang, Yifan An, Fashuai Li and Yuwei Chen

The multidimensional lens of urban sprawl: Spatiotemporal dynamics and governance in Abuja, Nigeria

Sani Abubakar Mashi, Shuaibu Abba Abdullahi and Elizabeth Dorsuu Jenkwe

Reimagining land use policies: Carbon trade-offs between urbanization and ecological restoration

Fei Shen, Muhammad Haseeb, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood and Aqil Tariq

GIS-based fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making for selecting optimal parcel lockers location: A case study in Dublin, Ireland

Rabia Bovkir, Sarbast Moslem and Francesco Pilla

Mapping socio-ecological injustice in Tokyo: Insights for land use management and climate adaptation for urban just transition

Yinuo Xie, Yuhang Sun, Ying Chen, Shujie Sun, Xuepeng Qian and Liang Dong

Causes of farmland abandonment in Poland: A comprehensive study using logistic regression, expert assessment, and ALS data

Ela Ertunç and Jarosław Janus