Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 130, issue C, 2023

Socioeconomic aspects of riparian vegetation debt in the state of Sao Paulo, Brasil

Lia Yukari K. Murakami, Klécia Gili Massi and Tatiana Sussel G. Mendes

Does climate change leads to severe household-level vulnerability? Evidence from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India

Renjith Raj and Arfat Ahmad Sofi

Pre-certification conditions of independent oil palm smallholders in Indonesia. Assessing prospects for RSPO certification

Rosanne E. de Vos, Aritta Suwarno, Maja Slingerland, Peter J. van der Meer and Jennifer M. Lucey

Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A systematic literature review and a proposal for facilitating urban transitions

Clare Adams, Niki Frantzeskaki and Magnus Moglia

How social solidarity affects the outcomes of rural residential land consolidation: Evidence from Yujiang County, South China

Chaoxian Yang, Rongrong Chen, Shouqin Zhong, Weiping Liu and Guixin Xin

Farmland Fragmentation, crop diversification and incomes in Cameroon, a Congo Basin country

Francis Ebai Ndip, Ernest Molua, Meyo-Elise Stephanie Mvodo, Robert Nkendah, Raoul Fani Djomo Choumbou, Rayner Tabetando and Nina Fabinin Akem

How does land consolidation drive rural industrial development? Qualitative and quantitative analysis of 32 land consolidation cases in China

Ge Wang, Xiaoqiu Li, Yingjie Gao, Chen Zeng, Bingkun Wang, Xiangyu Li and Xintong Li

Examining the impact of customary land secretariats on decentralised land governance in Ghana: Evidence from stakeholders in Northern Ghana

Charity Bazaabadire Lankono, David Forkuor and Festus Atribawuni Asaaga

Evaluation of cut-off values in the control of land take in Italy towards the SDGs 2030

Bernardino Romano, Francesco Zullo, Lucia Saganeiti and Cristina Montaldi

Archipelagic human-land spatial interrelations: An empirical study in Shengsi Archipelago, China

Yuan Chi, Dahai Liu, Yubing Qu, Zhiwei Zhang and Zhenhang Liu

Sectoral policies as drivers of forest management and ecosystems services: A case study in Bavaria, Germany

Astor Toraño Caicoya, Werner Poschenrieder, Clemens Blattert, Kyle Eyvindson, Markus Hartikainen, Daniel Burgas, Mikko Mönkkönen, Enno Uhl, Marta Vergarechea and Hans Pretzsch

Less important space? Spatial planning in small towns in Poland

Krzysztof Rogatka, Mateusz Kowalski and Tomasz Starczewski

Plantation forestry: Carbon and climate impacts

Mary-Ann Smyth

Improving the ecological and economic performance of agri-environment schemes: Payment by modelled results versus payment for actions

Katherine Simpson, Paul R. Armsworth, Martin Dallimer, Mary Nthambi, Frans de Vries and Nick Hanley

Volume 129, issue C, 2023

Exploring the relationship between quality of living and green spaces in cities: Evidence from an Indian megacity region of global south

Arijit Das and Manob Das

Making the ropes: How daily practices in a booming periurban municipality become durable 'gray' institutions shaping land use

Bernadette Baird-Zars

Regeneration in an ecological perspective. Urban and territorial equalisation for the provision of ecosystem services in the Metropolitan City of Milan

Laura Pogliani, Silvia Ronchi, Andrea Arcidiacono, Viviana di Martino and Francesca Mazza

What's in a name? Property titling and women's empowerment in Benin

Hannah Sheldon and Allison Shwachman Kaminaga

Clash or concert in European forests? Integration and coherence of forest ecosystem service–related national policies

Karin Beland Lindahl, Charlotta Söderberg, Natalia Lukina, Daria Tebenkova, Mireia Pecurul, Helga Pülzl, Metodi Sotirov and Camilla Widmark

Public money for public goods: The role of ideas in driving agriculture policy in the EU and post-Brexit UK

Hermann Kam, Heather Smith and Clive Potter

Norms triumph over self-interest! The role of perceived values and different norms on sustainable agricultural practices

Mingliang Wang, Shunlong Gong, Luyu Liang, Li Bai, Zhenlin Weng and Jin Tang

Steering of land use in the context of sustainable development: A systematic review of economic instruments

Adriana Ackerschott, Esther Kohlhase, Anita Vollmer, Jacob Hörisch and Henrik von Wehrden

Uncovering the spatiotemporal impacts of built environment on traffic carbon emissions using multi-source big data

Jishi Wu, Peng Jia, Tao Feng, Haijiang Li, Haibo Kuang and Junyi Zhang

Governmentality in evidence? Evolving rationalities of forest governance in Peru

Matti Salo, Juha Hiedanpää, José Carlos Orihuela, Carlos Alberto Llerena Pinto and John Leigh Vetter

Co-design approaches in land use related sustainability science – A systematic review

Maria Busse, Jana Zscheischler, Felix Zoll, Sebastian Rogga and Rosemarie Siebert

Does the evidence match the rhetoric? Post-formalization land investments and credit access in Zambia: Cases from informal settlements in Lusaka City region

Bridget Bwalya Umar, Ketiwe Kaluma, Julius Kapembwa and Garikai Martin Membele

Identification and analysis of transitional zone patterns along urban-rural-natural landscape gradients: An application to China’s southwest mountains

Shaoyao Zhang, Wei Deng, Hao Zhang and Zhanyun Wang

Implications of institutional interplay on land management: A case of traditional land tenure and formal laws in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

Emmanuel Timothy Malisa and Christopher Paul Mahonge

A window into land managers’ preferences for new forms of agri-environmental schemes: Evidence from a post-Brexit analysis

Emmanouil Tyllianakis, Julia Martin-Ortega, Guy Ziv, Pippa J. Chapman, Joseph Holden, Michael Cardwell and Duncan Fyfe

Views of government and non-government actors on urban forest management and governance in ten Latin-American capital cities

Camilo Ordóñez Barona, Ana Alice Eleuterio, Alexis Vasquez, Tahia Devisscher, Mariana Dias Baptista, Cynnamon Dobbs, Luis Orozco-Aguilar and Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman

Land use and green crime: Assessing the edge effect

Saulo de Oliveira Folharini, Silas Nogueira de Melo, Rafael Guimarães Ramos and J. Christopher Brown

Urban green spaces and social vulnerability in Brazilian metropolitan regions: Towards environmental justice

Romero Gomes Pereira da Silva, Cláudia Lins Lima and Carlos Hiroo Saito

Urban growth boundary and subway development: A theoretical model for estimating their joint effect on urban land price

Ronghui Tan and Shuxian Xu

Why the same economic reform leads to different urbanization route? --The comparative study of China and India

Jiaming Li, Ziyi Wang and Mingyi Liu

Gains and losses of farmland associated with farmland protection policy and urbanization in China: An integrated perspective based on goal orientation

Lu Qie, Lijie Pu, Pengfei Tang, Rongjuan Liu, Sihua Huang, Fei Xu and Taiyang Zhong

Territorial planning of rustic land constructions and their adaptation to climate change in the province of Málaga, Spain

Ana Crespo, Javier Velázquez, Fernando Herráez, Derya Gülçin, Ali Ugur Özcan, Ana Hernando and Rui Alexandre Castanho

Uncertainty in policy transfer across contaminated land management regimes: Examining the Nigerian experience

Kabari Sam

To what extent are cities prepared for their residents’ deaths? An example of cemetery management in large Polish cities

Krystian Puzdrakiewicz

Fiscal incentive, political incentive, and strategic interaction of illegal land use by local governments

Zekun Liu, Caixin Jiang, Jun Huang, Weiwen Zhang and Xuewen Li

Equitable land-use policy? Indigenous peoples’ resistance to mining-induced deforestation

Purabi Bose

Engaging citizens in land use policy in the smart city context

Arleta Kędra, Piotr Maleszyk and Anna Visvizi

Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina

María Jesús Mosciaro, Lucas Seghezzo, Marcos Texeira, José Paruelo and José Volante

Changes in mangrove coverage classification criteria could impact the conservation of mangroves in Mexico

Joanna Acosta-Velázquez, Jonathan Ochoa-Gómez, Alma Vázquez-Lule and Mario Guevara

Developing a decision-making framework within the management of historical cities: Towards integrated conservation and development of the Roudaki neighbourhood

Pegah Aftabi and Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi

Institutional pluralism and pro-poor land registration: Lessons on interim property rights from urban Tanzania

Martina Manara and Erica Pani

The political trust impacts of land titling in China

Xinyan Hu, Zhuo Chen, Xiangpo Chen and Ziyu Liu

Local stakeholders’ priorities and perceptions towards forest ecosystem services in the Red panda habitat region of Nepal

Upama Koju, Sikha Karki, Anita Shrestha, Tek Maraseni, Ambika P. Gautam, Tim Cadman, Ang Phuri Sherpa and Sonam Tashi Lama

Evolution and its driving forces of rural settlements along the roadsides in the northeast of Jianghan Plain, China

Bo Geng, Yugang Tian, Lihao Zhang and Bo Chen

Functions follow structures? The long-term evolution of economic dynamics, social transformations, and landscape morphology in a Mediterranean metropolis

Gianluca Egidi, Enrico Maria Mosconi, Rosario Turco and Luca Salvati

Determinants of mechanized technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: Implications for agricultural policy

Kamaldeen Mohammed, Evans Batung, Sulemana Ansumah Saaka, Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga and Isaac Luginaah

Viewpoint: Act local, effect global: Integrating farm plans to solve water quality and climate change problems

R.W. McDowell and W. Kaye-Blake

From ‘brown’ to ‘bright’: Key issues and challenges in former industrialized areas

Sesil Koutra, Philippe Bouillard, Vincent Becue, Jeremy Cenci and Jiazhen Zhang