Land Use Policy

2016 - 2026

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 170, issue C, 2026

Clarifying overlapping land rights in semi-formal systems: The case of Mailo tenant lands in Uganda

Kate Marple-Cantrell, Heather Huntington, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Thea Hilhorst

Suburbanisation's impact on local government: New spatial management roles and challenges in the suburbs today

Julia Gorzelany, Katarzyna Cegielska, Barbara Olczak and Renata Różycka-Czas

‘Fit-for-purpose’ spatial justice: Diffusion of European land consolidation and global reflection

He Gao, Walter Timo de Vries, Wencang Shen and Weidong Qu

Unraveling the spatial dynamics and mechanism heterogeneity of land transfer on carbon emission: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Chenlu Liu, Chen Zeng, Pengrui Wang, Mingyuan Chang, Xingzi Yu and Ruijing Yu

Artificial intelligence-driven forest fire land susceptibility mapping: A remote sensing and machine learning approach

Xulong Duan, Muhammad Haseeb, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood and Aqil Tariq

Exploring land consolidation solutions towards land use low-carbon transition: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

Haiyue Fu, Xinyi Chen, Penghui Jiang, Ding Fei and Chuan Liao

How localized differences in street greenery conditions are associated with urban public space use patterns: Evidence from the Las Vegas Strip

Xiaowei Li, Yuhan Wen, Qiuyi Yang and Xiwei Shen

A land management, biodiversity preservation, and climate change mitigation analysis in Brazil

Gustavo da Silveira Schiavo, Annibal Scavarda, Virginia Bodolica, Shahadat Khan and Luiz Felipe Scavarda

Divergent peri-urban land transitions and their carbon stock implications: A multi-method diagnostic framework applied to Hawassa, Ethiopia

Safisa Abishu Neme, Dejene Tesema Bulti and Gebrechristos Nuriye Dolebo

Exploring the perspectives of urban allotment gardens in Czechia: Balancing food production, recreation, ecology and housing

Barbora Duží, Petr Dvořák, Jan Vávra and Šimon Jelínek

Drivers of urbanisation and land-use and land-cover change across spatial scales: A comparative bibliometric synthesis from Global to Central and Eastern Europe

Yana Prados and Hossein Azadi

Beyond one-size-fits-all: Adaptive pathways in property tax base

Małgorzata Renigier-Biłozor, Alina Źróbek-Różańska, Jakub Jurewicz and Tuğba Güneş

Demographic dynamics, urban expansion, and social inclusion in Burkina Faso's small towns (1985–2019): A context-aware decoupling analysis

Mansourou Cissé, Malicki Zorom, Xiaoye Tong, Cécile Tannier, Harouna Karambiri and Stéphanie Horion

Reducing cropland requirement by optimizing provincial grain trade patterns in China

Xin Xuan, Yuping Bai, Xiangzheng Deng, Yecui Hu and Fan Zhang

Toward policy-informed 3D urban land-use simulations by leveraging urban planning regulations: Case studies in Zurich and Copenhagen

Somaie Abolhasani, Rafael Ramirez Eudave and Anna M. Hersperger

Socioecological pathways shape the decoupling of population growth and land loss across Sub-Saharan Africa

Yonas Derebe Derso, Wu Wei, Meseret C. Abate, Haile Ketema, Abay Bantihun, Dennis Afriyie, Eshetu Yirsaw and Yufan Wu

From static to dynamic: A phased evolution framework for multi-stakeholder collaborative governance in comprehensive land consolidation

Jinghui Zhao, Yanfeng Jiang, Jiangying Yao and Shude Tan

Forecasting territorially differentiated land-use transitions: Behavioural evidence from discrete choice experiments and diffusion modelling in Southern Italy

Ruggiero Sardaro and Piermichele La Sala

How institutional rule erosion shapes land use trajectories at forest margins in upland Indonesia

Naufal Naufal, Jon C. Lovett, Victoria Houlden and Steve Carver

Mapping socio-ecological factors, built-up expansion and land use change: Spatial analysis and insights for planning and restoration

Yana Prados, Skaloš Jan and Hossein Azadi

Securing rural land for whom, and for what? Measuring the impact of land interventions

Thea Hilhorst and Jaap Zevenbergen

Design principles for result-based, collective and value chain-based environment and climate contract solutions in agriculture and forestry: Learning from 44 case studies across Europe

T. Eichhorn, T. Runge, D. Viaggi, J. Kantelhardt, F. Bartolini, T. Bradfield, P. Dupraz, K.S. Harmanny, A. Iglesias, F. Le Gloux, E. Majewski, A. Malak-Rawlikowska, D. Nikolov, M. Raggi, C.J.E. Schulp, S. Targetti, K. Todorova, E. Tyllianakis, D. Vergamini, E. Viitala, M. Zavalloni and L. Schaller

Institutional configurations and conservation agriculture outcomes: A fuzzy-set analysis of production units in Lishu County, China's black-soil region

Hongwei Yu, Yufeng Hou, Youchao Xing, Huixin Ran, Chuanling Xiang, Mingze Xia, Zijie Liu and Hu Zhou

Massive hidden cropland transitions undermine China's agricultural sustainability

Nufang Fang, Renjie Zong, Qiongdan Liang, Yi Zeng and Wei Dai

The uneven benefits of conservation: A spatial analysis of how different protection regimes influence local development in Polish municipalities

Jakub Rok, Maciej Grodzicki and Martyna Podsiadło

Balancing pastoral heritage and tourism – A DRSIR perspective on landscape transformation in European mountains

Michał Sobala and Anna Żemła-Siesicka

Socioeconomic and policy-triggered land use/land cover change in the Alwero Watershed, Gambela Region, Ethiopia

Yitayh Leul and Shimeles Damene

Greening drylands: The potential and limits of afforestation as a nature-based solution in the Aralkum Desert

Shahzoda Alikhanova, Alison Smith, Cristina Tarantino and Joseph William Bull

The gendered effects of agricultural practices on land degradation and restoration in two contrasting agro-ecological zones of Cameroon

Bertin Takoutsing, Leigh Winowiecki, Ann Degrande, Mary Crossland, Simon Djakba Basga and Tor-Gunnar Vagen

Food, fuel, or forest? Interrogating the resource nexus dilemma behind deforestation through community-lived experiences in southern Malawi

Yamikani Harry Makwinja, O’Farrell, Patrick John, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Edeltraud Guenther

Gender, land rights and climate change adaptation in Ghana: Implications for land tenure, agriculture and rural development

Peter Asare-Nuamah, David Anaafo and Tina Beuchelt

Forest livelihood strategies under contrasting management regimes: Evidence from the Copperbelt, Eastern and North-Western Provinces of Zambia

Moses Kazungu, Sven Günter and Gillian Kabwe

Public green spaces for urban sustainability: A quantitative socio-ecological analysis of impacts in Marrakech, Morocco

Anas Aboulaiche and Zouhair Elouarari

What boundary delineation reveals about island evolutionary governance: Multi-level power brokerage in Réunion National Park

Salwa Aabid, Damien Deschamps and Erwann Lagabrielle

Land use for alcohol production and its implications for food security and public health: A case study of the United States

Uzair Jamil and Joshua M. Pearce

Transportation and environmental burdens in affordable housing: Evidence from federal housing programs in the Washington metropolitan area

Alireza Ermagun and Katherine Pease

Balancing cultivated land benchmark prices using a method integrating rank adjustment and spatial association

Yajie Zhang, Baiyang Fu, Zhiyi Duan and Xuesong Kong

Productivity-carbon trade-offs in Ghana: Quantifying the roles of irrigation and organic farming in land-use optimisation

Kwaku Asuako Tabiri

Political ecologies of urban encroachment: Power, governance, and land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas of Kumasi, Ghana

Francis Okyere, Michael Osei Asibey and Emmanuel Amponsah

The political ecology of urban green space transformation in Greater Tamale, Ghana: Conditions, drivers, and power relations

Abdulai Abdul-Hamid, Asiama Kwabena Obeng, Frank Gyamfi-Yeboah, Ibrahim Yakubu and Dogkubong Dinye Romanus

From abandoned farmland to afforestation: Legal and spatial perspectives on land consolidation in Serbia

Sofija Nikolić Popadić and Ivan Potić

Revolutionizing flood resilience: Human-centred AI for adaptive and regenerative urban design

Jakub Gorzka, Izabela Burda, Jacek Józekowski and Lucyna Nyka

Payment for environmental services in Brazil: A systematic scoping review of policy design, governance, and territorial patterns

Manoel Martins da Costa Junior, Vanessa Batista Schramm and Fernando Schramm

Building homes for tax revenues? Spatial evidence on the fiscal effects of residential land development

Julius Leonhard Range and Albert Erasmus Grafe

Multi-objective land use optimization coupling spatialized shuffled frog leaping algorithm with multi-level agent

Bowen Pang, Yaolin Liu, Sui Liu, Zhaomin Tong, Yifan Xie, Yanchi Lu, Xuan Luo, Yanfang Liu and Dianfeng Liu

A new reconstruction of cropland spatial distribution in China since 1850

Erqi Xu, Xuan Gao, Luqian Li and Kewei Li

Land decentralization and grain production: Evidence from Chinese counties

Hongqi Ma and Weiyi Liu

Corrigendum to “Outcomes of an agri-environmental scheme in the management of common pastures in northern Portugal: Social benefits and effects on local capacity for collective action” [Land Use Policy 147 (2024) 107377]

Ana Luísa Luz

Conservation outcomes across protected area strategies: Insights from a longitudinal analysis of the Brazilian National System of Conservation Units

Clarisse Carmo and Alberto Fonseca

Assessing the impact of land consolidation on agricultural transport-related Co₂ emissions

Ela Ertunç and Halime Nur Kök

Unpacking the compactness-emission nexus with the moderating role of environmental governance: Evidence from urban built-up areas in eastern China

Yating Wang, Mengqiao Song, Jie Wang, Li He and Yecui Hu

Informal coastal reclamation driven by monitoring and enforcement gaps: from plans to practice in a protected lagoon

Patryk Sitkiewicz, Bartosz Płóciennik, Monika Michałek, Anastazja Mastylak, Shasha Liu, Łukasz Janowski, Damian Moskalewicz and Radosław Opioła

Comparing perceived distributional equity in state-dominated and co-managed protected areas

Ying Lou, Yuqi Zhang, Yin Zhang, Yongbing Zhang, Zichen Fang, Jiale Tang, Xiaoqi Fan and Shakura N. Bashir

Divergent trajectories of crop simplification and diversification in the United States, 1840–2022

Chunyun Tang and Katherine Nelson

Volatile urbanism: Rethinking planning beyond the stability premise

Zaheer Allam