Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 125, issue C, 2023

Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka

Benjamin C.R. Flower, Piyal Ganepola, Srinivasa Popuri and Jan Turkstra

Understanding population movement and the evolution of urban spatial patterns: An empirical study on social network fusion data

Yu Cao, Zesu Hua, Ting Chen, Xiaoying Li, Heng Li and Dingtian Tao

Community participation for inclusive land administration: A case study of the Odisha urban slum formalization project

Serene Ho, Pranab R. Choudhury and Richa Joshi

Factors affecting the adoption of patch-burn grazing in the southern Great Plains in the US

Saroj Adhikari, Omkar Joshi, Michael G. Sorice and Samuel D. Fuhlendorf

Conflicts and synergies between customary land use management and urban planning in informal settlements

H.S. Geyer

Uncommonly known change characteristics of land use pattern in Guangdong Province–Hong Kong–Macao, China: Space time pattern, terrain gradient effects and policy implication

Yuangong Chen, Wenli Chen, Jianzhou Gong and Haiwei Yuan

Territorial spatial planning for regional high-quality development – An analytical framework for the identification, mediation and transmission of potential land utilization conflicts in the Yellow River Delta

Qu Yanbo, Wang Shilei, Tian Yaya, Jiang Guanghui, Zhou Tao and Meng Liang

Quantifying the spatial impact of landscape fragmentation on habitat quality: A multi-temporal dimensional comparison between the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Yellow River Basin of China

Liang Zheng, Ying Wang and Jiangfeng Li

Tele-connection of global agricultural land network: Incorporating complex network approach with multi-regional input-output analysis

Mengyao Cheng, Jialu Wu, Chaohui Li, Yuanxin Jia and Xiao-Hua Xia

The diversity impact of democracy on forest protection: Global evidence

Quan-Jing Wang, Xin-Yu Peng, Hai-Jie Wang and Chun-Ping Chang

Spatial-temporal characteristics and policy implication for non-grain production of cultivated land in Guanzhong Region

Daojun Zhang, Wanjing Yang, Dingrong Kang and Han Zhang

Development of a Cellular Automata-based model approach for sustainable planning of affordable housing projects: an application case study in Algiers

Célia Hadj Ali, Damien Roy, Louisa Amireche and Jean-Philipe Antoni

Integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge of land into land management through Indigenous-academic partnerships

Gordon (Iñupiaq), Heather Sauyaq Jean, J. Ashleigh Ross, Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong,, Maria Moreno, Byington (Choctaw), Rachel and Bowman (Lunaape/Mohican), Nicole

Are adaptation strategies to climate change gender neutral? Lessons learned from paddy farmers in Northern Iran

Imaneh Goli, Hossein Azadi, Maryam Omidi Najafabadi, Farhad Lashgarara, Ants-Hannes Viira, Alishir Kurban, Petr Sklenička, Kristina Janečková and Frank Witlox

Investigating urban form, and walkability measures in the new developments. The case study of Garnizon in Gdansk

Damian Poklewski-Koziełł, Karolina Dudzic-Gyurkovich and Carlos Marmolejo Duarte

Maize price variability, land use change, and forest loss: evidence from Ghana

Kwabena Krah

A systematic review of the institutional success factors for blockchain-based land administration

Barikisa Owusu Ansah, Winrich Voss, Kwabena Obeng Asiama and Ibrahim Yahaya Wuni

Smart mobility projects: Towards the formalization of a policy-making lifecycle

Anthony Simonofski, Phebe Handekyn, Celien Vandennieuwenborg, Yves Wautelet and Monique Snoeck

Do land property rights matter for stimulating agricultural productivity? Empirical evidence from Burkina Faso

Windinkonté Séogo and Pam Zahonogo

Reflections on urbanisation, land supply and the Ghanaian physical planning system towards sustaining cemetery land use in Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area

Maxwell Kwotua Petio

The peri-urban cadastre of Addis Ababa: Status, challenges, and fit-for-purpose prospects

Mekonnen Tesfaye Metaferia, Rohan Mark Bennett, Berhanu Kefale Alemie and Mila Koeva

Social-ecological and institutional factors affecting forest and landscape restoration in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Ronju Ahammad, Mohammed Kamal Hossain, Istiak Sobhan, Rakibul Hasan, Shekhar R. Biswas and Sharif A. Mukul

Entrepreneurship role in the co-production of public services in informal settlements − A scoping review

Yewande Adewunmi, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Sam Mwando and Uaurika Kahireke

(Neo-)segregation, (neo-)racism, and one-city two-system planning in Windhoek, Namibia: What can a new national urban policy do?

Jennilee Magdalena Kohima, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Malcon Liyali Mazambani and Menare Royal Mabakeng

Competition in online land lease auctions in Ukraine: Reduced-form estimation

Olena Myrna

Natura 2000 public awareness in EU: A prerequisite for successful conservation policy

Ioannis P. Kokkoris, Dimitrios Skuras, Yannis Maniatis and Panayotis Dimopoulos

Customary land ownership and land use change in Kumasi: An issue of chieftaincy sustenance?

Bernard Adjei-Poku, Samuel K. Afrane, Clifford Amoako and Daniel K.B. Inkoom

Do land use regulations help give rise to informal settlements? Evidence from Buenos Aires

Cynthia Goytia, Eric J. Heikkila and Ricardo A. Pasquini

Blockchain technology adaptation for land administration services: The importance of socio-cultural elements

Prince Donkor Ameyaw and Walter Timo de Vries

Farming by the sea: A qualitative-quantitative approach to capture the specific traits of coastal farming in Brittany, France

Valérie Viaud, Marine Legrand, Hervé Squividant, Virginie Parnaudeau, Arsinée André, Rodéric Bera, Sandrine Dupé, Marie Pot, Marianne Cerf, Florence Revelin, Quentin Toffolini and Alix Levain

Realizing a rights-based approach to resettlement from protected areas: Lessons from Satpura Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh (India)

Ujjal Kumar Sarma and Indrani Barpujari

Community perceptions of the social impacts of the Metolong Dam and Reservoir in Lesotho

Thabang Sekamane, W.A.J. Nel, Tracey J. McKay and Henry Bikwibili Tantoh

Cultivated land loss and construction land expansion in China: Evidence from national land surveys in 1996, 2009 and 2019

Yang Zhou, Zhen Zhong and Guoqiang Cheng

Co-benefits from tree planting in a typical English agricultural landscape: Comparing the relative effectiveness of hedgerows, agroforestry and woodland creation for improving crop pollination services

Mike Image, Emma Gardner and Tom D. Breeze

How public policies and other events can shape spatial distribution of local activities over time? An investigation based on spatial micro-data

Jean Dubé, Ousmane Dieng, Mathieu Lévesque, Antoine Racine, Olivier Roberge and Thibault Trapé

Disentangling the influence of the economic development discourse on the management of national parks through systems thinking: Case studies from the Philippines and Mozambique

Vera Horigue, Russell Richards, Alima Taju and Joseph Maina

Meeting tree planting targets on the UK's path to net-zero: A review of lessons learnt from 100 years of land use policies

Sally Westaway, Ian Grange, Jo Smith and Laurence G. Smith

How to solve the dilemma of China’s land fallow policy: Application of voluntary bidding mode in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Zhenning Yu, Shuoqi She, Chuyu Xia and Jiaojiao Luo

Locational attributes of the lodging industry: An empirical study on urban hotels in Ankara, Turkey

Ezgi Orhan

Quantitative assessment of cultivated land use intensity in Heilongjiang Province, China, 2001–2015

Xiaoliang Li, Kening Wu, Qijun Yang, Shiheng Hao, Zhe Feng and Jinliang Ma

Evolutionary process and mechanism of population hollowing out in rural villages in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Northern China: A case study of Yanchi County, Ningxia

Qi Wen, Jin Li, Jinmei Ding and Jue Wang

Volume 124, issue C, 2023

Taking stock of global land indicators: A comparative analysis of approaches for a globally consistent land tenure security measure

Heather Huntington and Caleb Stevens

Institutionalizing ideas about citizens’ initiatives in planning: Emerging discrepancies between rhetoric and assurance

Saskia Bisschops, Raoul Beunen and Daniël Hollemans

Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England

Hannah Hickman and Aidan While

Towards climate targets with cropland afforestation – effect of subsidies on profitability

Janne Rämö, Boris Tupek, Heikki Lehtonen and Raisa Mäkipää

European National Parks protect their surroundings but not everywhere: A study using land use/land cover dynamics derived from CORINE Land Cover data

Mario Mingarro and Jorge M. Lobo

Different responses to mega-trends in less favorable farming systems. Continuation and abandonment of farming land on the islands of Lesvos and Lemnos, Greece

Thymios Dimopoulos, Julian Helfenstein, Amelie Kreuzer, Franziska Mohr, Stratis Sentas, Rafail Giannelis and Thanasis Kizos

Identifying the structure of rural regional system and implications for rural revitalization: A case study of Yanchi County in northern China

Jieyong Wang, Lulu Qu, Yurui Li and Weilun Feng

Right connection, right insight engaging private estate managers on woodland expansion issues in times of uncertainty

Euan. A.D. Bowditch, Rob McMorran and Melanie. A. Smith

Impacts of urban sprawl in the Administrative Region of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) and measures to restore improved landscapes

Laís Caroline Marianno de Olivera, Gislaine Costa de Mendonça, Renata Cristina Araújo Costa, Regina Aparecida Leite de Camargo, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Fernando António Leal Pacheco and Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra

Buildable land overzoning. Have new planning regulations in Poland resolved the issue?

Anita Kukulska-Kozieł

Swiss Parks of National Importance as model regions of sustainable development – An economic success story for farmers?

Christian Ritzel, Daniel Hoop, Marco Portmann, Astrid Wallner and Gabriele Mack

Digital twins and land management in South Korea

JungHo Park, WonGeun Choi, TaeYun Jeong and JinJae Seo

Impacts of urban living lab (ULL) on learning to design inclusive, sustainable, and climate-resilient urban environments

Yasemin Afacan

Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported by different policy domains

Maria João Canadas, Miguel Leal, Filipa Soares, Ana Novais, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Luísa Schmidt, Ana Delicado, Francisco Moreira, Rafaello Bergonse, Sandra Oliveira, Paulo Miguel Madeira and José Lima Santos

Determination of the property boundary – A review of selected civil law jurisdictions

Volkan Çağdaş, Abdullah Kara, Anka Lisec, Jesper M. Paasch, Jenny Paulsson, Tanja L. Skovsgaard and Amalia Velasco

Social acceptance of NIMBY facilities: A comparative study between public acceptance and the social license to operate analytical frameworks

Min Xu, Yong Liu, Caiyun Cui, Bo Xia, Yongjian Ke and Martin Skitmore

Integrating blue-green infrastructure in urban planning for climate adaptation: Lessons from Chennai and Kochi, India

Francisco García Sánchez and Dhanapal Govindarajulu

Environmental foe or friend: The influence of the shadow economy on forest land

Canh Phuc Nguyen and Binh Quang Nguyen

The price gap between state-owned and collective farmlands: Evidence from Xinjiang and Heilongjiang, China

Yuan Qi, Yuchen Hou, Yaoyao Li, Luyue Li, Jiaqing Zhang, Yuyang Chang and Daolin Zhu