Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 121, issue C, 2022

Factors affecting utilization opportunity of wetlands and their immediate surroundings in abandoned mining sites: A case study for Istanbul

Murat Köse, Ali Ayhan Kul, Emrah Özdemir, Alev Perihan Gürbey and Nilüfer Kart Aktaş

Institutional form (blueprints) and institutional function (process): Theoretical reflections on property rights and land

John Groenewegen

Gender norms, landholdership, and rural land use fee and agricultural income tax in Ethiopia

Hitomi Komatsu, Alemayehu Ambel, Gayatri Koolwal and Manex Bule Yonis

‘You can’t be green if you’re in the red’: Local discourses on the production-biodiversity intersection in a mixed farming area in south-eastern Australia

Tamara Schaal, Annie Jacobs, Julia Leventon, Ben C. Scheele, David Lindenmayer and Jan Hanspach

Hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ integration intention: The case of urban China

Jing Zou, Jie Chen and Yu Chen

Recent forest and land-use policy changes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo: Are they truly transformational?

Julia Su Chen Ng, Colas Chervier, Marc Ancrenaz, Daisuke Naito and Alain Karsenty

Digital advocacy at the science-policy interface: Resolving land-use conflicts in conservation forests

Santi Pratiwi and Nataly Juerges

A sport-anchored development district and densification: A comparative mixed effects analysis

Gidon S. Jakar, Jeff Carr and Mark S. Rosentraub

Urban farmers coping strategies in the wake of urbanization and changing market in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji and Yvonne Kiki Nchanji

Land restoration in the Himalayan Region: Steps towards biosphere integrity

Vikram S. Negi, Ravi Pathak, Vibhash Dhyani, Medha Durgapal, R.K. Joshi and Indra D. Bhatt

Cashew expansion holds potential for carbon stocks enhancement in the forest-savannah transitional zone of Ghana

George Ashiagbor, Akua Oparebea Asare-Ansah, Prosper Basommi Laari and Winston Adams Asante

Storing carbon or growing forests?

Iddo K. Wernick and Pekka E. Kauppi

Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes

Anne Paulus, Nina Hagemann, Marieke C. Baaken, Stephanie Roilo, Viviana Alarcón-Segura, Anna F. Cord and Michael Beckmann

Illegal land use by Italian firms: An empirical analysis through the lens of isomorphism

Roberta Troisi

What could forest landscape restoration look like in the Ramu-Markham Valley of Papua New Guinea?

Kanchana Wiset, Robert Fisher, Jack Baynes, Nathan Wampe, Melinda Thom, William Jackson and John Herbohn

How rural actors relate to nature. Perceptions of ecosystem services in the semi-arid Chaco of northern Argentina

Gisela S. Córdoba and Elena Zepharovich

Land planning and protected areas in the coastal zone of Mexico: Do spatial policies promote fragmented governance?

Ondrej Bazant-Fabre, Martha Bonilla-Moheno, M. Luisa Martínez, Debora Lithgow and Carlos Muñoz-Piña

Blockchain in real estate: Recent developments and empirical applications

Anniina Saari, Jussi Vimpari and Seppo Junnila

Analysis on the effect and mechanism of land misallocation on carbon emissions efficiency: Evidence from China

Di Zhou, Qing Huang and Zhaohui Chong

Reviewing the literature on the tripartite cycle containing digital building permit, 3D city modeling, and 3D property ownership

Dogus Guler and Tahsin Yomralioglu

The influence of policy design on club good provisions: A study of for-profit shopping mall roof gardens in Shanghai

Hongmei Lu and Robert L. Ryan

Volume 120, issue C, 2022

Land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon: Stealing public land with government approval

Gabriel Cardoso Carrero, Robert Tovey Walker, Cynthia Suzanne Simmons and Philip Fearnside

Understanding the relationship between land tenure and conservation behavior: Recommendations for social science research

Pranay Ranjan, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Sarah P. Church, Francis R. Eanes, Kristin Floress, Yuling Gao, Benjamin Gramig, Ajay S. Singh and Linda S. Prokopy

The contribution of urban garden cultivation to food self-sufficiency in areas at risk of food desertification during the Covid-19 pandemic

Valentina Cattivelli

An experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland

Matthias Buchholz, Michael Danne and Oliver Musshoff

Does fallow policy affect rural household income in poor areas? A quasi-experimental evidence from fallow pilot area in Northwest China

Xianxiong Xie, Yu Cui, Liuyang Yao, Qi Ni, Sufyan Ullah Khan and Minjuan Zhao

Getting the “basics”? The World Bank’s narrative construction of poverty reduction in China

Mihai Varga

The land degradation neutrality management enablers, challenges, and benefits for mobilizing private investments in Pakistan

Hafiz Waqar Abbas, Xuesong Guo, Bilal Anwar, Syed Asif Ali Naqvi and Syed Ale Raza Shah

Main intrinsic factors driving land grabbing in the African countries’ agro-food industry

Antonio Tulone, Antonino Galati, Simone Pecoraro, Anna Carroccio, Dario Siggia, Michele Virzì and Maria Crescimanno

An evaluation of competing methods for constructing house price indexes: The case of Warsaw

Robert Hill and Radoslaw Trojanek

Beyond the ‘Field of Dreams’ model in smallholder forestry: Building viable timber value chains for smallholder tree growers in developing countries

Dora Carias, Tony Page, Hilary Smith, Digby Race, Rodney J. Keenan, Graeme Palmer and Jack Baynes

How do fiscally created one-city monopolies cause intra-provincial inequality in China?

Jian Chen, Di Zhao, Bin He and Savo Stanojevic

Evaluating the effectiveness of development-limiting boundary control policy: Spatial difference-in-difference analysis

Ronghui Tan, Pengcheng Liu, Kehao Zhou and Qingsong He

Adjustment or transformation? Disaster risk intervention examples from Austria, Indonesia, Kiribati and South Africa

Alexander Fekete, Sven Fuchs, Matthias Garschagen, Gérard Hutter, Silja Klepp, Catharina Lüder, Thomas Neise, Dominic Sett, Kirsten von Elverfeldt and Mia Wannewitz

The limits of spatial data? Sense-making within the development and different uses of Finnish urban-rural classification

Uula Saastamoinen, Suvi Vikström, Ville Helminen, Jari Lyytimäki, Kimmo Nurmio, Elina Nyberg and Salla Rantala

Beyond controversy, putting a livestock footprint on the map of the Senegal River delta

Jeremy Bourgoin, Djibril Diop, Labaly Touré, Quentin Grislain, Roberto Interdonato, Mohamadou Dieye, Christian Corniaux, Julien Meunier, Djiby Dia and Sidy M. Seck

Taking cultural landscapes into account: Implications for scaling up ecological restoration

Tiago Shizen Pacheco Toma and Elise Buisson

Who pays the property tax? Evidence from Brazil

P.H.B. Carvalho Junior and C. De Cesare

A centennial literature review (1919–2019) of research publications on land readjustment from a neo-institutional economic perspective

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

A systematic review and gap analysis of drivers, impacts, and restoration options for abandoned croplands in Nepal

Roshan Babu Ojha, Kishor Atreya, Paul Kristiansen, Deepa Devkota and Brian Wilson

Evaluating stakeholder influences on the land use application process in South Africa – Results from an analysis of the legal framework

L. Siebritz and S. Coetzee

Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: A small town’s growth perspective

Sabyasachi Tripathi and Arup Mitra

Geolocation of mountain businesses: Identifying and characterizing clusters by altitude in the Central Apennines

Stefano Poponi, Gianluca Piovesan, Irene Fulco and Federico Vessella

The limits of coastal and marine areas in Andalusia (Spain). A socio-ecological approach for ecosystem-based management

María de Andrés and Juan Manuel Barragán Muñoz

Payment for ecosystem services and the practices of environmental fieldworkers in policy implementation: The case of Bolsa Floresta in the Brazilian Amazon

Livio Silva-Muller

Convergence and divergence in the economic performance of wildlife tourism within multi-reserve landscapes

Alexander Chidakel and Brian Child

The influence of behavioural factors and external conditions on Dutch farmers’ decision making in the transition towards circular agriculture

Carolien de Lauwere, Monique Slegers and Marieke Meeusen

Urban-greenery demands are affected by perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices, and socio-demographic and environmental-cultural factors

Ling Chui Hui and C.Y. Jim

Formalising village land dispossession? An aggregate analysis of the combined effects of the land formalisation and land acquisition agendas in Tanzania

Linda Engström, Joanny Bélair and Adriana Blache

An intelligent web-based spatial group decision support system to investigate the role of the opponents’ modeling in urban land use planning

Seyed Morsal Ghavami, Mohammad Taleai and Theo Arentze

Development of agricultural land markets in countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Maxim Gorgan and Morten Hartvigsen

Review of smallholder palm oil sustainability reveals limited positive impacts and identifies key implementation and knowledge gaps

Zoë Ogahara, Kristjan Jespersen, Ida Theilade and Martin Reinhard Nielsen

Forecasting residential sprawl under uncertainty: An info-gap analysis

Dani Broitman and Yakov Ben-Haim

Rural typology dynamics and drivers in peripheral areas: A case of Northeast China

Jianzhi Liu, Yangang Fang, Ruru Wang and Cunming Zou

What role does land consolidation play in the multi-dimensional rural revitalization in China? A research synthesis

Qiqi Yin, Xueyan Sui, Bei Ye, Yujie Zhou, Chengqiang Li, Mengmeng Zou and Shenglu Zhou

Effects of farmland use rights transfer on collective action in the commons: Evidence from rural China

Yahua Wang and Huan Wang

The future of the Mediterranean agri-food systems: Trends and perspectives from a Delphi survey

Marta Antonelli, Linda Basile, Francesca Gagliardi and Pierangelo Isernia

Does the agglomeration of urban producer services promote carbon efficiency of manufacturing industry?

Xiping Liu, Xiaoling Zhang and Wen Sun

The loss of peri-urban agricultural land and the state-local tensions in managing its demise: The case of Greater Western Sydney, Australia

Amy Lawton and Nicky Morrison

Agro-industrial development: Lessons from Brazil

Gabriel da Silva Medina and Benno Pokorny

Simulation of urban growth scenarios using integration of multi-criteria analysis and game theory

Seyed Ehsan Sadooghi, Mohammad Taleai and Somaie Abolhasani

Indigenes’ exclusion from neo-customary land: A perspective from changes in usufruct rights in Pramso, peri-urban Kumasi – Ghana

Dennis Kamaanaa Sumbo

Producing rice while conserving the habitat of an endangered waterbird: Incentives for farmers to integrate water management

Matthew W. Herring, Stephen T. Garnett and Kerstin K. Zander

Customary succession and re-issuance of land documents in Ghana: Implications on peri-urban land developers in Kumasi

Joseph K. Kidido and Samuel B. Biitir

An LADM–based model to facilitate land tenure reform of rural homesteads in China

Zhongguo Xu, Yuefei Zhuo, Guan Li, Rohan Mark Bennett, Rong Liao, Cifang Wu and Yuzhe Wu

Resolving land conflicts through Alternative Dispute Resolution: Exploring the motivations and challenges in Ghana

Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Mohammed Abubakari, Bernard A.A. Akanbang and Thembela Kepe

The many faces of condominiums and various management structures − The Danish case

Morten D. Madsen, Jesper M. Paasch and Esben M. Sørensen

European agroforestry policy promotion in arable Mediterranean areas

María Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Francico Javier Rodríguez-Rigueiro, José Javier Santiago-Freijanes, Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez, Pablo Silva-Losada, Anastasia Pantera, Juan Luis Fernández-Lorenzo, María Pilar González-Hernández, Rosa Romero-Franco, José Antonio Aldrey-Vázquez and Nuria Ferreiro-Domínguez

A review of the reliability of land bank institution in Indonesia for effective land management of public interest

Martin Roestamy, Abraham Yazdi Martin, Radif Khotamir Rusli and Mohamad Ali Fulazzaky

Balancing the interaction between urban regeneration and flood risk management – A cost benefit approach in Ústí nad Labem

Paul Hudson, Pavel Raška, Jan Macháč and Lenka Slavíková

European blue and green infrastructure network strategy vs. the common agricultural policy. Insights from an integrated case study (Couesnon, Brittany)

Houet Thomas, Palka Gaetan, Rigo Roberta, Boussard Hugues, Baudry Jacques, Poux Xavier, Narcy Jean-Baptiste, Alvarez Martinez José Manuel, Balbi Stefano, Mony Cendrine, Lecoq Lucie, Beganton Johanna and Barquin José

An analysis of Sustainable Development Goals in Italian cities: Performance measurements and policy implications

D’Adamo, Idiano, Massimo Gastaldi, Giuseppe Ioppolo and Piergiuseppe Morone

A nexus between farmland rights, and access, demand, and amount of agricultural loan under the socialist system of China

Maogang Gong and Ehsan Elahi

Impact of COVID-19 in the forestry sector: A case of lowland region of Nepal

Tek Maraseni, Bishnu Hari Poudyal, Kishor Aryal and Hari Krishna Laudari

Farmers' acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective

Anna Massfeller, Manuela Meraner, Silke Hüttel and Reinhard Uehleke

Towards a full automation of land consolidation projects: Fast land partitioning algorithm using the land value map

Jarosław Janus and Ela Ertunç

Linking institutional function with form: Distributional dynamics, disequilibrium, and rural land shareholding in China

Huirong Chen

Examining the relationship between farmer participation in an agri-environment scheme and the quantity and quality of semi-natural habitats on Irish farms

Andreas Tsakiridis, O’Donoghue, Cathal, Mary Ryan, Paula Cullen, Daire Ó hUallacháin, Helen Sheridan and Jane Stout

Is there a tradeoff between nature reserves and grain production in China?

Yuquan Chen, Shenggen Fan, Chang Liu and Xiaohua Yu

Legal pluralism, obscure reforms and adjudication of land conflicts in Hargeisa, Somaliland

Abdifatah Ismael Tahir

The second themed article collection on the land administration domain model (LADM)

Peter van Oosterom, Eva-Maria Unger and Christiaan Lemmen

Effects of subsidy and regulation policy on soil and water resources of cotton planted lands in Harran Plain, Turkey

Mehmet Ali Çullu, Mustafa Teke, Mustafa Hakkı Aydoğdu and Hikmet Günal

Non-agricultural labor transfer, factor allocation and farmland yield: Evidence from the part-time peasants in Loess Plateau region of Northwest China

Linfei Li, Sufyan Ullah Khan, Chenhao Guo, Yanfen Huang and Xianli Xia

Land redevelopment under ambiguous property rights in transitional Vietnam: A case of spatial transformation in Hanoi city center

Minh Khue Le, Jieming Zhu and Hoang Linh Nguyen

Towards unlocking sustainable land consumption in sub-Saharan Africa: Analysing spatio-temporal variation of built-up land footprint and its determinants

Yacouba Kassouri and Andrew Adewale Alola

Changing land tenure regimes and women’s access to secure land for cocoa cultivation in rural Ghana

Michael Addaney, Jonas Ayaribilla Akudugu, Michael Osei Asibey, Millicent Awialie Akaateba and Elias Danyi Kuusaana

Discursive and biophysical dimensions of land sparing policies in Laos: Implications for greenhouse gas emissions and food security

Sonja Bauernschuster, Melanie Pichler, Micah Ingalls, Sithong Thongmanivong and Simone Gingrich

An economic-psychological perspective on perceived land tenure security: Evidence from rural eastern China

Chen Qian, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xueqin Zhu and Xianlei Ma

Institutional changes in farmland governance emerging from a collective land preservation procedure upholding local food projects: Evidence from a French case study

Grâce Kassis and Nathalie Bertrand

Protecting ecosystem services of urban agriculture against land-use change using market-based instruments. A Polish perspective

Justyna Goździewicz-Biechońska and Anna Brzezińska-Rawa

Linking actors and scales by green grabbing in Bozbük and Kazıklı

Canan Emek İnan and Koray Albulut

Reducing property taxes for agriculture: Diffusion of use-value assessment policy across the United States

John Anderson, Seth Giertz and Shafiun N. Shimul

Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible

Yugank Goyal, Pranab Ranjan Choudhury and Ranjan Kumar Ghosh

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) support for subdivision phase of land readjustment: A case study from Turkey

Bayram Uzun, Bura Adem Atasoy and Nida Celik Simsek

ICT use and spatial fragmentation of activity participation in post-COVID-19 urban societies

Aldo Arranz-López and Julio A. Soria-Lara

How residential density relates to social interactions? Similarities and differences of moderated mediation models in gated and non-gated communities

Seyyedeh Fatemeh Mousavinia

Examining the spatial simulation and land-use reorganisation mechanism of agricultural suburban settlements using a cellular-automata and agent-based model: Six settlements in China

Xue Jiang, Bingxin Li, Hongyu Zhao, Qiqi Zhang, Xiaoya Song and Haoran Zhang

From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services

Neven Tandarić, Christopher D. Ives and Charles Watkins