Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 148, issue C, 2025

BIM/IFC as input for registering apartment rights in a 3D Land Administration Systems – A prototype webservice

Marjan Broekhuizen, Eftychia Kalogianni and Peter van Oosterom

Remembering walls by map naming and planned attempts to eradicate and salvage a wall-less “walled city”: Kowloon City

Lawrence Wai Chung Lai, Stephen N.G. Davies, Nixon Tit Hei Leung, Prudence L.K. Lau and Tristance Kee

A multi-level spatial assessment framework for identifying land use conflict zones

Danyang Wang, Mingshu Wang, Wei Zheng, Yaya Song and Xianjin Huang

Multi-level social capital effects on residents: Residents’ cooperative behavior in neighborhood renewal in China

Ruopeng Huang, Queena K. Qian, Guiwen Liu, Kaijian Li, Henk J. Visscher, Xinyue Fu and Wenshun Wang

Between place attachment and urban planning in Jinan: Does environmental quality affect human perception in a developing country context?

Jia Jia, Xiaoqing Zhang and Wenzhong Zhang

Growing green: Exploring the drivers of citizens’ participation in Italian urban and peri-urban forestation governance

Lucia Baldi, Maria Teresa Trentinaglia, Alkis Thrassou and Antonino Galati

How are smart city policies progressing in Italy? Insights from SDG indicators

Roberta Barbieri, Benedetta Coluccia and Francesco Natale

From process to effects: An approach for integrating dominant and recessive transitions of rural residential land (RRL)

Yaya Tian, Guanghui Jiang, Yuqi Xing, Siduo Wu, Xuerong Kong and Tao Zhou

Patterns and drivers of terrace abandonment in China: Monitoring based on multi-source remote sensing data

Dan Lu, Kangchuan Su, Zhanpeng Wang, Mengjie Hou, Xinxin Li, Aiwen Lin and Qingyuan Yang

Toward tenure security: The relationship between women's land ownership, formal land title documents and their empowerment

Imaneh Goli, Masoud Bijani, Pourya Kabir Koohi, Rytis Skominas, Rando Värnik, Steven Van Passel, Thomas Dogot and Hossein Azadi

Are agri-environmental schemes doing their job? Evidence from Biebrza National Park, Poland

Joanna Sucholas, Zsolt Molnár, Łukasz Łuczaj, Rainer Luick and Peter Poschlod

Conflicts, crop choice, and agricultural investments: Empirical evidence from Nigeria

Mulubrhan Amare, Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, Kwaw S. Andam and Dolapo Adeyanju

The impact of cropland transfer on rural household income in China: The moderating effects of education

Xiangyu Ji, Yiting Wang, Lei Yang, Chun Li and Liding Chen

The measurement of agricultural disaster vulnerability in China and implications for land-supported agricultural resilience building

Yuheng Li, Guangya Gao, Jiuyao Wen, Ning Zhao, Guoming Du and Monika Stanny

Multidimensional deconstruction and workable solutions for addressing China's food security issues: From the perspective of sustainable diets

Xiaohua Zhu, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yurui Li, Jiaxing Cui and Bohua Yu

The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer

Weiwen Wang, Yang Shen, Jiajun Qiao, Ying Wang, Lochan Kumar Batala and Jie Xiao

Can high-speed rail improve agricultural land use in China’s counties? From the perspective of dynamic network two-stage model

Juan Lu and He Li

How communities and social impacts are considered in policies for protected areas in China

Yuqi Zhang, Frank Vanclay and Philippe Hanna

What is the “best” way to measure the relative location variables in the market value assessment? An econometric method applied to an Italian case study

Aurora Ruggeri, Felicia Di Liddo, Laura Gabrielli, Francesco Tajani and Pierluigi Morano

Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Ming Fang

The influence of land use planning and exposure to flooding on urban growth in San José, Costa Rica

Eduardo Pérez-Molina, Rosendo Pujol-Mesalles, Jonathan Aguero-Valverde and Félix Zumbado-Morales

The smart city competitiveness index (SMCI): Conceptualization, modelling, application – An evidence-based insight

Anna Visvizi, Roman Wosiek and Radosław Malik

Understanding how equitable and efficient land governance can influence environmental sustainability status: Evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria

Taiwo Oladapo Babalola

Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China

Youqing Fan, Mengtao Gao, Lanlan Bi, Chyi Lin Lee and Guangbo Yin

Can urban low-carbon transformation affect the prices of its industrial land? An empirical study based on spatial regression discontinuity

Shibo Zeng, Yaxin Zhang and Gui Jin

Quantifying supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services from a dynamic perspective

Yuxin Zhang, Bin Fu, Juying Sun and Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva

Effects of land use changes on local dust event in Urmia Lake basin

Fatemeh Bashirian, Dariush Rahimi and Saeed Movahedi

The engagement of environmental organizations on land policies: A case study of Pro Natura, Switzerland

Lauriane Cailleux

Multi-scenario simulation of low-carbon land use based on the SD-FLUS model in Changsha, China

Shenglan Ma, Junlin Huang, Xiuxiu Wang and Ying Fu

Volume 147, issue C, 2024

Advocacy and credibility of land tenure in Ethiopia: Mitigating conflicts and threats

Hossein Azadi, Shaghayegh Ehteshammajd, Imaneh Goli, Narges Siamian, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Peter Ho, Kristina Janečková and Petr Sklenička

Land certification, tenure security and off-farm employment: Evidence from China

Chuanhao Tian, Yichen Luo and Yu Teng

The Credibility Thesis meeting the Coase Theorem in terms of form and function

Lawrence W.C. Lai

Communal grant and land allocation effect on native land disputation in Malaysia

A.M. Azima, Faathirah Jamaluddin, Zaimah Ramli, Suhana Saad and Novel Lyndon

Contrasting state land and fire use policies condition fire regime seasonality and size in two Central Spain forest landscapes

Francisco Seijo, Gonzalo Zavala, Rafael Ballester, Jose Maria Costa-Saura, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Jesús Julio Camarero and José Antonio López Sáez

An integrated framework for measuring sustainable rural development towards the SDGs

Dianfeng Liu, Fuxiang Li, Mingli Qiu, Yang Zhang, Xiang Zhao and Jianhua He

Land use policy implications of demographic shifts: Analyzing the impact of aging rural populations on agricultural carbon emissions in China

Yong Huang, Ehsan Elahi, Jiansheng You, Yuhua Sheng, Jinwei Li and Anchan Meng

Forest carbon payments: A multidisciplinary review of policy options for promoting carbon storage in EU member states

Aino Assmuth, Hilja Autto, Kirsi-Maria Halonen, Emmi Haltia, Suvi Huttunen, Jussi Lintunen, Annika Lonkila, Tiina M. Nieminen, Paavo Ojanen, Mikko Peltoniemi, Kaisa Pietilä, Johanna Pohjola, Esa-Jussi Viitala and Jussi Uusivuori

Balancing forest area preservation and biodiversity offsets in the forest: Forest owners’ policy preferences

Tobias Schulz and Tamaki Ohmura

Ideals and practicalities of policy co-design – Developing England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes

Ruth Little, Judith Tsouvalis, José Luis Fajardo Escoffié, Susan E. Hartley and David Christian Rose

Community-based forest management moderates the impact of deforestation pressure in Thailand

Michael Jenke

A sacrifice for the greater good? On the main drivers of excessive land take and land use change in Hungary

György Csomós, Ádám Szalai and Jenő Zsolt Farkas

Trends and drivers of land abandonment in Poland under Common Agricultural Policy

Bernadetta Ortyl, Idalia Kasprzyk and Jan Jadczyszyn

Potential environmental implications of sandbar afforestation: Insights from ecosystem restoration initiatives in a sandbar of Brahmaputra River Assam, India

Mrinalini Goswami, Satya Prakash, Sunil Nautiyal and Sharif A. Mukul

Exploring land system reform for demographic transition in rural China

Yansui Liu, Xuhong Li and Yuanzhi Guo

Spatially explicit priority optimization of land ecosystem services in the ecologically fragile region

Yu Liu, Zhengjia Liu, Xun Zhang, Bin Zhang, Jinlian Shi, Aijun Liu, Shujuan Chang, Yong Yang and Yu Wang

Comparing effectiveness of point of interest data and land use data in theft crime modelling: A case study in Beijing

Jiajia Feng, Yuebing Liang, Qi Hao, Ke Xu and Waishan Qiu

Spatio-temporal interplay between ecosystem services and urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A new perspective for considering the scarcity effect

Hongjiao Qu, Chang You, Weiyin Wang and Luo Guo

Dissemination, manipulation or monopolization? Understanding the influence of stakeholder information sharing on resident participation in neighborhood rehabilitation of urban China

Yu Li, Penglin Zhu, Erwin Mlecnik, Queena K. Qian and Henk J. Visscher

The process of transition to a value-based distribution model in the Turkish land readjustment system

Bayram Uzun, Volkan Yıldırım, Yakup Emre Çoruhlu, Okan Yıldız, Fatih Terzi and Bura Adem Atasoy

Do planning practices hinder on-farm diversification in peri-urban Mediterranean France?

Brigitte Nougarèdes, Romain Melot, Laurie Vanel, Myriam Campardon, Dyhia Brahimi, Roy Hammond, Béatrice Mesini and Coline Perrin

How does household farmland rental behavior affect gender differences in labor division and livelihood strategy? Insights from the household production theory

Wenjing Han, Zhengfeng Zhang and Xiaoling Zhang

Deriving a justified budget for peatland rewetting – Applying the German coal phase-out as a blueprint

Pia Sommer, Sebastian Lakner, Anke Nordt, Franziska Tanneberger and Johannes Wegmann

Structured decision-making shows broad support from diverse stakeholders for habitat conservation and restoration in Kenya’s Central Highlands

Gwili E.M. Gibbon, Martin Dallimer, Hassan Golo, Humphrey Munene, Charlene A. Wandera, Monda N. Edson, Jane C. Gachura, Tim Hobbs, Festus Ihwagi, Stephen R. Ikhamati, Samson K. Ikiara, David Kimathi, Francis B. Lenyakopiro, James M. Mwamodenyi, John Mwiti, Rachael Mundia, Justuce Mureithi, Godfrey Mwogora, Priscilla K. Ndiira, Redempta Njeri, Jerenimo Lepirei, Craig Outram, Phineas Rewa, Maurice Schutgens, Silvano Simiyu, Sven Verwiel, Antony Wandera, Don White, Robert J. Smith and Zoe G. Davies

Urbanization provocateur: Reaching urban planning-led development in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz I. Almulhim and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

How Covid-19 changed the way we visit rivers? Applications of big data for sentiment analysis

Arash Akhshik, Marianna Strzelecka, Joanna Tusznio and Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak

Reviewing the reportage of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement issues in mainstream Indian Media

Kanchan Sen Sharma and V. Jothiprakash

Enhancing green housing diffusion through density bonuses: An analysis using the Use-Purchase-Supply model

Li Zhang, Hongyu Liu and Xiaoling Zhang

Persistence of sub-urban agriculture and landowners' behavior in the population declining phase: Case of the preferential tax treatment for rental farmland

Hironori Yagi and Shingo Yoshida

Towards a comprehensive analysis of agricultural land systems in the EU and US: A critical view on publicly available datasets

Emily Burchfield, Marco Ferro, Silke Hüttel, Tobia Lakes, Heidi Leonhardt, Andreas Niedermayr, Andrea Rissing, Stefan Seifert and Maximilian Wesemeyer

The impact of smart city construction on achieving peak carbon neutrality: Evidence from 31 provinces in China

Xiaoxi Yang, Dansha Zhang and Tajul Ariffin Masron

(Non-)terrestrial and (Non-)local pathways of behavioral policy diffusion in European cities’ climate action plans: Contextual, cultural, and leadership framing

Jessica Page, Hong Zhou, Haozhi Pan, Chang Zhou, Pei Pei and Zahra Kalantari

Landscape sustainability and land sustainability: A bibliometric analysis

Xuening Fang, Qun Ma, Zhifeng Liu and Jianguo Wu

On the brink of transition? From pathways to methodological heuristics for improved causal analysis in forest transition research

Joel Persson

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

Ana Luísa Luz

Ecological unequal exchange: Evidence from imbalanced cropland soil erosion and agricultural value-added embodied in global agricultural trade

Guangyi Zhai, Keke Li, Huwei Cui, Zhen Wang, Ling Wang, Shuxia Yu and Zhi-Hua Shi

Distressed property and spillover effect: A study of property price response to coastal flood risk

S. Sariffuddin, D. Ary A. Samsura, Erwin van der Krabben, Budi Setiyono and Wisnu Pradoto

Harmonization potential of the fragmented farmlands in Finland: The pros and cons for critical parcel characteristics

Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Lauri Jauhiainen, Roope Näsi, Eetu Puttonen and Eija Honkavaara

Effect of farmland scale on agricultural green production technology adoption: Evidence from rice farmers in Jiangsu Province, China

Dingde Xu, Yi Liu, Yichao Li, Shaoquan Liu and Guihua Liu