Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 128, issue C, 2023

Conflict dynamics over farmland use in the multifunctional countryside

Adam Czarnecki, Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska, Łukasz Widła-Domaradzki and Anna Jórasz-Żak

Mutual complementarity of arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade: Evidence from the global supply chain

Xi Ji, Pinyi Su, Yifang Liu, Guowei Wu and Xudong Wu

Addressing the challenge of photovoltaic growth: Integrating multiple objectives towards sustainable green energy development

Virgilio Hermoso, Gerard Bota, Lluis Brotons and Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez

Governance of densification and climate change adaptation: How can conflicting demands for housing and greening in cities be reconciled?

Sabrina Erlwein, Juliane Meister, Christine Wamsler and Stephan Pauleit

Spatial decision support systems for effective ex-ante risk evaluation: An innovative model for improving the real estate redevelopment processes

Debora Anelli and Francesco Tajani

Incorporating technical and farmer knowledge to improve land use and management for natural flood management in lowland catchments

Samantha Broadmeadow, Tom Nisbet, Robert Palmer, Louise Webb, Chris Short, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, John Hammond, Martin Lukac, Anne Miller, Richard Gantlett and Joanna Clark

Should I stay or should I go? Gender differences and factors influencing family farm business succession in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Raquel Breitenbach and Cristian Rogério Foguesatto

The spatio-temporal trends of urban green space and its interactions with urban growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region, China

Jie Wang, Yuzhen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Mengqiao Song and Jianping Ye

Effects of urbanisation on ecosystem service values: A case study of Nha Trang, Vietnam

Kien T. Pham and Tang-Huang Lin

The spatial production of rural settlements as rural homestays in the context of rural revitalization: Evidence from a rural tourism experiment in a Chinese village

Guohua Bi and Qingyuan Yang

Research on early warning and control measures for arable land resource security

Xueqing Sun, Pengcheng Xiang and Kexin Cong

Causal linkages between land reform and factor demand under tenure insecurity: Evidence from Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Jun Takada and Hisato Shuto

Co-producing agricultural policy with beekeepers: Obstacles and opportunities

Siobhan Maderson

Upgrading to 3D cadastre in Morocco: Lessons learned from benchmarking of international 3D cadastral systems

Rafika Hajji, Hanae El Asri and Chaymae Ez-Zriouli

Understanding socio-spatial perceptions and Badlands ecosystem services valuation. Is there any welfare in soil erosion?

José A. Albaladejo-García, Francisco Alcon, Federico Martínez-Carrasco and J. Martinez-Paz

Land-use mixing in Irish cities: Implications for sustainable development

O’Driscoll, Conor, Frank Crowley, Justin Doran and Nóirín McCarthy

The social dynamics of access to land, livelihoods and the rural youth in an era of rapid rural change: Evidence from Ethiopia

Tsegaye Moreda

Volume 127, issue C, 2023

Utilization and implementation of PPGIS in land use planning and decision-making from the perspective of organizations

Sini Kantola, Nora Fagerholm and Ari Nikula

Modelling the legal spaces of 3D underground objects in 3D land administration systems

Rohit Ramlakhan, Eftychia Kalogianni, Peter van Oosterom and Behnam Atazadeh

The Forest Management Policy and its Influence in Forest area Utilization and Empowering Forest Communities in Yogyakarta

Drasospolino,, Soesilo Zauhar, Bambang Santoso and Hermawan,

Preserving peri-urban land through biodiversity offsets: Between market transactions and planning regulations

Stéphanie Barral and Fanny Guillet

Effectiveness of policy instrument mixes for forest conservation in the tropics – Stakeholder perceptions from Ecuador, the Philippines and Zambia

Richard Fischer, Melvin Lippe, Priscilla Dolom, Felix Kanungwe Kalaba, Fabian Tamayo and Bolier Torres

Cross-boundary cooperation in wildfire management during the custodial management period of the US Forest Service: A case study of the eastern Cascades of Oregon, USA, 1905–1945

Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley and Mark D.O. Adams

Sea Reclamation in Mainland China: Process, Pattern, and Management

Fengqin Yan, Xuege Wang, Chong Huang, Junjue Zhang, Fenzhen Su, Yifei Zhao and Vincent Lyne

Rural cadastral implementation and its effect on women’s landholding use rights in Amhara region, Ethiopia

Adane Mehari Getie, Tadesse Amsalu Birhanu and Teshome Taffa Dadi

Effects of protected areas on the expansion of impervious surfaces in their vicinity: Evidence from Dutch Natura 2000

Francesco Orsi and Le Clec’h, Solen

Tradable planning permits in the field: Executive experimental results from Germany

Ralph Henger, Tim Straub and Christof Weinhardt

Women and timber management: From assigned cook to strategic decision-maker of community land use

Ana Luiza Violato Espada and Karen A. Kainer

Museums for ex situ tangible heritage conservation: A neo-institutional analytical and empirical economic analysis

K.W. Chau, Stephen N.G. Davies, Lawrence W.C. Lai and H.T. Choy Lennon

Urban agriculture business models and value propositions: Mixed methods approach based on evidence from Polish and Italian case studies

J. Wiśniewska-Paluszak, G. Paluszak, Mariantonietta Fiore, A. Coticchio, A. Galati and J. Lira

Is a village level always relevant to describe land cover changes? Analysing the landscape to understand socio-environmental changes in western Burkina Faso

Sébastien Caillault and Maxime Marie

Urban green spaces in land-use policy – types of data, sources of data and staff – the case of Poland

Marcin Feltynowski

The role of jurisprudence in public value capture in urban development: A comparative analysis from Dutch, English, Spanish and Colombian courts

Muñoz Gielen Demetrio, Blanc Clavero Francisco, James Corbet Burcher and Pinilla Juan Felipe

Citizen perceptions and values associated with ecosystem services from European grassland landscapes

Sophie Tindale, Victoria Vicario-Modroño, Rosa Gallardo-Cobos, Erik Hunter, Simona Miškolci, Paul Newell Price, Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, Martijn Sonnevelt, Mercy Ojo, Kirsty McInnes and Lynn J. Frewer

Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources

Catherine M. Tucker, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Mimi Urbanc, Nevenka Bogataj, Alexey Gunya, Romina Rodela, Maurizia Sigura and Lucia Piani

The development of multifunctional agriculture in farming regions of China: Convergence or divergence?

Yingnan Zhang, Hualou Long, Shuocun Chen, Li Ma and Muye Gan

Public participation for a greener Europe: The potential of farmers in biodiversity monitoring

Edwin Alblas and Josephine van Zeben

Determining the optimal land valuation model: A case study of Hanoi, Vietnam

Quang Cuong Doan

Large-scale agricultural investment and female employment in African communities: Quantitative and qualitative insights from Nigeria

Oluwatosin D. Edafe, Evans Osabuohien, Oluwatoyin Matthew, Romanus Osabohien and Rehmat Khatoon

Housing accessibility in densifying cities: Entangled housing and land use policy limitations and insights from Oslo

Rebecca Cavicchia

Are there trade-offs between conservation and development caused by Mexican protected areas?

Daniel Martín Auliz-Ortiz, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Eduardo Mendoza and Miguel Martínez-Ramos

Jurisdictional approaches to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Brazil: Why do states adopt jurisdictional policies?

Carolina Gueiros, Sébastien Jodoin and Constance L McDermott

The effect of spatial and temporal planning scale on the trade-off between the financial value and carbon storage in production forests

Tristan R.M. Bakx, Renats Trubins, Jeannette Eggers and Cecilia Akselsson

To own or not to own? Land tenure security and production risk in small-scale farming

Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Kehinde Ademola Olagunju, Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi, Abiodun Olusola Omotayo and Zainab Oyetunde-Usman

The private in the public: The case of Norwegian private zoning plans

Olof Stjernström, Eivind Junker and Hans Wilhelm Thorsen

Calibrating Nepal's scientific forest management practices in the measure of forest restoration

Kishor Aryal, Nripesh Awasthi, Tek Maraseni, Hari Krishna Laudari, Pabitra Gotame and Dhan Bahadur Bist

Our forest, our livelihood: Natural resources’ use controversies and community livelihood sustainability in the Mole National Park, Ghana

Samuel Ziem Bonye, Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh and Vivian Nsiah

Comparison of different models for land consolidation projects: Aydin Yenipazar Plain

Safiye Pınar Tunalı and Necdet Dağdelen

An attempt to locate the Russian spatial planning system within the European planning families

Zora Živanović, Branka Tošić, Erblin Berisha and Ana Perić

Volume 126, issue C, 2023

Co-production through tacit knowledge for water resilience

Namperumal Sridharan, Rama Umesh Pandey and Tania Berger

Did policy lose sight of the wood for the trees? An UTAUT-based partial least squares estimation of farmers acceptance of innovative sustainable land use systems

Verena Otter and Maximilian Deutsch

Impact of land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investments on food security status of displaced households: The case of Ethiopia

Dereje Kebede, Bezabih Emana and Girmay Tesfay

Assessing urban adaptability: The key is in the land use plan

Michal Tsahor, Rachel Katoshevski-Cavari and Nurit Alfasi

Are human activities consistent with planning? A big data evaluation of master plan implementation in Changchun

Liang Ding, Ziqian Huang and Chaowei Xiao

A crime risk-based approach for urban planning. A methodological proposal

Michele Grimaldi, Francesca Coppola and Isidoro Fasolino

Does the change of agricultural zoning policy achieve farmland protection in Taiwan?

Chen-Fu Lu and Chia-Yi Cheng

Pathways for improving rangeland governance under constraining land tenure systems: Application of a participatory Bayesian Belief approach

Aymen Frija, Mariem Sghaier, Mondher Fetoui, Boubaker Dhehibi and Mongi Sghaier

New reflections on food security and land use strategies based on the evolution of Chinese dietary patterns

Yuanyuan Zhu, Ziwei Wang and Xiaohua Zhu

Out of sight, out of mind? BSE 30 years on: continuing environmental risks to human health

Eleanor Swire and Alan Colchester

Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland

Kavita Sharma, Gretchen Walters, Marc J. Metzger and Jaboury Ghazoul

Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected outcome of flexible soft densification policy in the Netherlands

Josje Bouwmeester, Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann and Deniz Ay

Community forest management led to rapid local forest gain in Nepal: A 29 year mixed methods retrospective case study

Alexander C. Smith, Kaspar Hurni, Jefferson Fox and Jamon Van Den Hoek

Beyond technocracy: The role of the state in rural development in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Hebinck†, Paul, Lothar Smith and Michael Aliber

Sustainability assessment of Territorial Short Food Supply Chains versus Large‐Scale Food Distribution: The case of Colombia and Spain

Liliana Reina-Usuga, Carlos Parra-López, Tomás de Haro-Giménez and Carmen Carmona-Torres

The impact of land degradation on agricultural profits and implications for poverty reduction in Central Asia

Alisher Mirzabaev, Anton Strokov and Pavel Krasilnikov

After legalization: Cannabis, environmental compliance, and agricultural futures

Michael Polson, Hekia Bodwitch, Eric Biber, Van Butsic and Theodore Grantham

Complementary effects of biodiversity and ecosystem services on spatial targeting for agri-environment payments

Alessandro Gimona, Margaret McKeen, Andrea Baggio, Enrico Simonetti, Laura Poggio and Robin J. Pakeman

An empirical analysis on adoption of precision agricultural techniques among farmers of Punjab for efficient land administration

Abhishek Khanna and Sanmeet Kaur

‘Peri-urbanisation and loss of arable land’: Indigenes’ farmland access challenges and adaptation strategies in Kumasi and Wa, Ghana

Dennis Kamaanaa Sumbo, George Kwadwo Anane and Daniel Kweku Baah Inkoom

Exploring the future of Kafue National Park, Zambia: Scenario-based land use and land cover modelling to understand drivers and impacts of deforestation

Julia Dietz, Anna Christina Treydte and Melvin Lippe

Hierarchical integrated spatial risk assessment model of fire hazard for the core city areas in India

Geetanjli Rani, Nihal Anwar Siddiqui, Monika Yadav and Shariq Ansari

Women’s access to land and the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM): Requirements, modelling and assessment

Eva-Maria Unger, Christiaan Lemmen and Rohan Bennett

Airports in the urban landscape: externalities, stigmatization and housing market

Mirosław Bełej, Radosław Cellmer, Iwona Foryś and Michał Głuszak

Silent transitions: Commercialization and changing customary land tenure systems in upland Laos

Diana Suhardiman, Anna-Maria Phayouphorn, Anthony Gueguen and Jonathan Rigg

The relationship of land tenure, land use and land cover changes in Lake Victoria basin

Juliet Katusiime, Brigitta Schütt and Noah Mutai

Examining the conformance of development to local spatial plans amid rapid urbanisation in Harare, Zimbabwe

Thomas Karakadzai, Elmond Bandauko, Joel Chaeruka and Godwin Arku

Barriers to effective property tax reform in Nigeria: Implementation of the land use charge in Enugu state

Obinna Collins Nnamani, Kenechi Peter Ifeanacho, Ezinne Ifeoma Onyekwelu and Paul Chibueze Ogbuefi

Effects of land titling on household tenure security and investments: Evidence from Nicaragua

Ana Paula de la O Campos, Fabrice Edouard and Marta Ruiz Salvago

Local government shift and national housing program: Spatial repercussions on urban growth

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

Ex-post evaluation of the Danish pesticide tax: A novel and effective tax design

Helle Ørsted Nielsen, Maria Theresia Hedegaard Konrad, Anders Branth Pedersen and Steen Gyldenkærne

Improving sustainability assessment: A context-oriented classification analysis for the wine industry

Ana Trigo, Ana Marta-Costa and Rui Fragoso

Strategies to improve the competitiveness of an agroindustrial system for a macauba based oil production in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Pâmela da Costa Lima Pires, Aldara da Silva César, Alexandre Nunes Cardoso, Simone Palma Favaro and Marco Antonio Conejero

The impact of long-term land leases on farm investment: Evidence from the Irish dairy sector

Tracy Bradfield, Robert Butler, Emma J. Dillon, Thia Hennessy and Jason Loughrey

Adaptive change of land use to nature and society in China’s agro-pastoral ecotone

Xin Geng, Shi Hu, Xunming Wang, Diwen Cai and Yuan Gong

Modelling land use planning: Socioecological integrated analysis of metropolitan green infrastructures

Joan Marull, Roc Padró, María José La Rota-Aguilera, Joan Pino, Annalisa Giocoli, Jacob Cirera, Núria Ruiz-Forés, Francesc Coll, Tarik Serrano-Tovar and Raúl Velasco-Fernández