Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 113, issue C, 2022

Eco-districts and data-driven smart eco-cities: Emerging approaches to strategic planning by design and spatial scaling and evaluation by technology

Simon Elias Bibri

From scythe to smartphone: Rural transformation in Romania evidenced by the perception of rural land and population

Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag, Dacinia Crina Petrescu and Hossein Azadi

The role of NGOs in recognition and sustainable maintenance of customary forests within indigenous communities: The case of Kerinci, Indonesia

Kazuhiro Harada, Muhammad Habib, Yumi Sakata and Ahmad Maryudi

Urbanization path, housing price and land finance: International experience and China’s facts

Yuan Liu, Hong Gao, Jiming Cai, Yang Lu and Zhenyu Fan

Reflections on the limited impact of the VGGT in sub saharan Africa and opportunities for its future with lessons from Nigeria and Sierra Leone

Gregory Myers and Jolyne Sanjak

The contribution of Gudo forest conservation culture is key to biodiversity conservation the case of Sheka Zone, southwest Ethiopia

Getaneh Haile Shoddo

Urban regeneration in the light of social innovation: A systematic integrative literature review

Yohani Dominik dos Santos Figueiredo, Marcia Aparecida Prim and Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini

Quantifying the contribution of diminishing green spaces and urban sprawl to urban heat island effect in a rapidly urbanizing metropolitan city of Pakistan

Salman Arshad, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Sawaid Abbas, Ather Asharf, Nadia Asad Siddiqui and Zia ul Islam

Effects of government competition on land prices under opening up conditions: A case study of the Huaihe River ecological economic belt

Malin Song, Qianjiao Xie and Jiandong Chen

International acceptance of automated modern tools use must-have for sustainable real estate market development

Małgorzata Renigier-Biłozor, Sabina Źróbek, Marek Walacik, Richard Borst, Richard Grover and d’Amato, Maurizio

Removal and reconstruction: Multi-period price effects on nearby housing from urban village redevelopment

Ying Peng and Chuanhao Tian

Modelling choices and social interactions with a threshold public good: Investment decisions in a polder in Bangladesh

Stijn Reinhard, María A. Naranjo, Nico Polman and Wil Hennen

The unintended consequences of Egypt's institutional land regime on unplanned settlement growth in the Nile Valley

Mahmood Abdelkader, Richard Sliuzas, Luc Boerboom and Jaap Zevenbergen

Land availability and housing price in China: Empirical evidence from nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL)

Kwang-Jing Yii, Chai-Thing Tan, Wing-Ken Ho, Xiao-Hui Kwan, Feng-Ting Shim Nerissa, Yan-Yi Tan and Kar-Horn Wong

Ecological effects of land-use change on two sides of the Hu Huanyong Line in China

Xuesong Kong, Mengxue Fu, Xiang Zhao, Jing Wang and Ping Jiang

Improving herders’ income through alpine grassland husbandry on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Qian Qian, Junbang Wang, Xiujuan Zhang, Shaoqiang Wang, Yingnian Li, Qinxue Wang, Alan E. Watson and Xinquan Zhao

How do Collective Operating Construction Land (COCL) Transactions affect rural residents’ property income? Evidence from rural Deqing County, China

Man Jiao and Hengzhou Xu

How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends

Arthur Acolin, Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter

Revealing the solar energy potential by integration of GIS and AHP in order to compare decisions of the land use on the environmental plans

Yakup Emre Coruhlu, Necmettin Solgun, Volkan Baser and Fatih Terzi

Looking beyond the conflict: Everyday interactions and relations between Maya and Mennonite farmers in the state of Campeche, Mexico

Jovanka Špirić and M. Isabel Ramírez

Modelling urban sprawl and assessing its costs in the planning process: A case study in Flanders, Belgium

Karolien Vermeiren, Tomas Crols, Inge Uljee, Leo De Nocker, Carolien Beckx, Ann Pisman, Steven Broekx and Lien Poelmans

Exploring motivations behind the introduction of tourist accommodation taxes: The case of the Marche region in Italy

Vincenzo Alfano, Elina De Simone, D’Uva, Marcella and Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta

Pandemic resilient cities: Possibilities of repairing Polish towns and cities during COVID-19 pandemic

Anna Majewska, Małgorzata Denis, Ewa Jarecka-Bidzińska, Joanna Jaroszewicz and Wioleta Krupowicz

Lessons of government centralization and credibility: A qualitative case-study of administrative change in Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, China (1982–2018)

Weiye Wang and Jinlong Liu

A study of scarcity: assessing the availability and value of surplus land in Nigeria

Chris Littleboy

Appreciation of Nordic landscapes and how the bioeconomy might change that: Results from a discrete choice experiment

Bart Immerzeel, Jan E. Vermaat, Artti Juutinen, Eija Pouta and Janne Artell

How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries

Marta Kubacka, Patryk Żywica, Josep Vila Subirós, Sylwia Bródka and Andrzej Macias

Urban vertical profiles of three most urbanized Chinese cities and the spatial coupling with horizontal urban expansion

Chen Yang and Shuqing Zhao

Non-linear and weakly monotonic relationship between school quality and house prices

Shishir Mathur

Environmental and farm impacts of the EU RDP agri-environmental measures: Evidence from Slovak regions

Jerzy Michalek

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

Tomasz Noszczyk, Julia Gorzelany, Anita Kukulska-Kozieł and Józef Hernik

A cup of tea? – The role of social relationships, networks and learning in land managers’ adaptations to policy change

Antonia Eastwood, Anke Fischer, Alice Hague and Katrina Brown

The effect of monetary policy on China’s housing prices before and after 2017: A dynamic analysis in DSGE model

Zhengxun Tan, Qianqian Tang and Juan Meng

How does rural labor migration affect crop diversification for adapting to climate change in the Hehuang Valley, Tibetan Plateau?

Yihao Zhang, Ya Wu, Jianzhong Yan and Ting Peng

Impact of protected areas and co-management on forest cover: A case study from Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh

S M Asik Ullah, Masakazu Tani, Jun Tsuchiya, M.Abiar Rahman and Masao Moriyama

Volume 112, issue C, 2022

Financial sector actors, the state, and the rescaling of Jakarta’s extended urban region

Gavin Shatkin

Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China

Fulong Wu

The financialization of rental housing in Tokyo

Natacha Aveline-Dubach

The development of local government financial vehicles in China: A case study of Jiaxing Chengtou

Yi Feng, Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang

Universities as financing vehicles of (sub)urbanisation: the development of university towns in Shanghai

Jie Shen

Capital accumulation and urban land development in China: (Re)making Expo Park in Shanghai

Lingyue Li and Yang Xiao

Financialization in the making of the new Wuhan

Xiaofan Luan and Zhigang Li

Neoliberal financial governance and its transformation under real estate boom and bust: The case of Ordos City, China

Xing Su and Zhu Qian

China’s urban construction investment bond: Contextualising a financial tool for local government

Zhen Ye, Fangzhu Zhang, D'Maris Coffman, Senmao Xia, Zhifeng Wang and Zhonghua Zhu

Housing and land financialization under the state ownership of land in China

Jie Chen and Fulong Wu

Financialising urban redevelopment: Transforming Shanghai’s waterfront

Yawei Chen

The financialization of rental housing in China: A case study of the asset-light financing model of long-term apartment rental

Jie Chen, Fulong Wu and Tingting Lu

What is an Agricultural Park? Observations from the Spanish Experience

Ana Zazo Moratalla and Valerià Paül

Understanding zero deforestation and the High Carbon Stock Approach in a highly forested tropical country

Joss Lyons-White, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Robert M. Ewers and Andrew T. Knight

Tracking the history of urban expansion in Guangzhou (China) during 1665–2017: Evidence from historical maps and remote sensing images

Guilin Liu, Jingyun Li and Peng Nie

Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada

Sandeep Agrawal, Cody Gretzinger and Andrew Lowerre

Understanding the urban scaling of urban land with an internal structure view to characterize China’s urbanization

Weiqian Lei, Limin Jiao and Gang Xu

Interpolation biases in assessing spatial heterogeneity of outdoor air quality in Moscow, Russia

Evgeny Noi and Alan T. Murray

Informal construction as political currency: A theory of ‘election-driven informality’

Drini Imami, Endrit Lami and Dorina Pojani

Informality within Indigenous land management: A land-use study at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada

Robert A. Fligg, Brian Ballantyne and Derek T. Robinson

The role of territorial collective goods in Korea’s residential development

Hee Jin Yang and Yoon-jung Kim

Land consolidation: A comparative research between Europe and China

Yanfeng Jiang, Yu-Ting Tang, Hualou Long and Wu Deng

Are agricultural sustainability and resilience complementary notions? Evidence from the North European agriculture

Artiom Volkov, Mangirdas Morkunas, Tomas Baležentis and Dalia Streimikiene

Household determinants of competing land uses in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya

Evelyne Wairimu Njuguna and John Mburu

Trends for agricultural land-use in the CEECs following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc

Jerzy Bański and Wioletta Kamińska

Spatial expansion and patterns of land use/land cover changes around Accra, Ghana – Emerging insights from Awutu Senya East Municipal Area

Benjamin Doe, Clifford Amoako and Ronald Adamtey

Mediterranean forest policy beyond the Paris Climate Agreement

Veronika Andrea

Pro-environmental behavior under bundled environmental and poverty reduction goals: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia

Goytom Kahsay, Workineh Asmare Kassie, Abebe Damte Beyene and Lars Hansen

A new methodology to measure the urban construction land-use efficiency based on the two-stage DEA model

Gao Jingxin, Song Jinbo and Wu Lufang

Moderate effectiveness of multiple-use protected areas as a policy tool for land conservation in Atlantic Spain in the past 30 years

D. Rodríguez-Rodríguez and J.D. Sinoga

Policies to encourage agroforestry in the Southern Atlantic Forest

Leonardo Marques Urruth, Joana Braun Bassi and Davi Chemello

Rejuvenating ecosystem services through reclaiming degraded land for sustainable societal development: Implications for conservation and human wellbeing

Lakhpat Singh Rawat, Rakesh Kumar Maikhuri, Yateesh Mohan Bahuguna, Arun Kumar Jugran, Ajay Maletha, Nabi Kanta Jha, Prakash Chandra Phondani, Deepak Dhyani, Dalbeer Singh Pharswan and Sudhanshu Chamoli

The direct and lag effects of administrative division adjustment on urban expansion patterns in Chinese mega-urban agglomerations

Rundong Feng and Kaiyong Wang

Roads and land tenure mediate the effects of precipitation on forest cover change in the Argentine Dry Chaco

Sebastián Aguiar, Matías E. Mastrángelo, Marcos Texeira, Patrick Meyfroidt, José N. Volante and José M. Paruelo

New rail transit projects and land values: The difference in the impact of rail transit investment on different land types, values and locations

Jae Kwang Lee

Putting land to work: An evaluation of the economic effects of recultivating abandoned farmland

Eduardo Corbelle-Rico, Patricio Sánchez-Fernández, Edelmiro López-Iglesias, Santiago Lago-Peñas and José-María Da-Rocha

Matching the degree of privateness/collectiveness to the scale of resource use

Aleksandar D. Slaev

Modeling direct above-ground carbon loss due to urban expansion in Zanzibar City Region, Tanzania

M.O. Kukkonen, M. Khamis, M.J. Muhammad, N. Käyhkö and M. Luoto

How does the extension of existing transport infrastructure affect land value? A case study of the Tyne and Wear Light Transit Metro system

Jonathan Pearson, Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Henry Liu and Simon Robson

Analysis of the urban growth pattern through spatial metrics; Ankara City

Serhat Cengiz, Sevgi Görmüş and Dicle Oğuz

Financialised urban development: Chinese and (South-)East Asian observations

Fangzhu Zhang and Fulong Wu

Secure tenure or equal access? Farmers’ preferences for reallocating the property rights of collective farmland and forestland in Southeast China

Zhang Yiwen and Shashi Kant

Design of the macroeconomic evolution of Romania's agriculture 2020–2040

Andrea Feher, Sorin Stanciu, Tiberiu Iancu, Tabita Cornelia Adamov, Ramona Mariana Ciolac, Raul Pascalau, Adrian Banes, Miroslav Raicov and Vasile Gosa

Supra-local spatial planning practices and suburban patterns in the Barcelona and Milan urban regions

Sofia Pagliarin

Assessing conflict of farmland institutions using credibility theory: Implications for socially acceptable land use

Heyuan You, Jinrong Zhang and Yan Song

Land formalization turned land rush: The case of oil palm in Papua New Guinea

Caroline Hambloch

Digitalisation driven urban metabolism circularity: A review and analysis of circular city initiatives

D’Amico, Gaspare, Roberta Arbolino, Lei Shi, Tan Yigitcanlar and Giuseppe Ioppolo

Integrating support groups, an effective approach to regenerate historic neighborhoods of Iran Case study: Oudlajan Neighborhood, Tehran

Mohaddese Ghadiri and Mozaffar Sarrafi

Barriers to sustainable urban stormwater management in developing countries: The case of Brazil

Anaí Floriano Vasconcelos, Ademir Paceli Barbassa, Maria Fernanda Nóbrega dos Santos and Maryam Astaraie Imani

Exploring the spectrum of urban area key figures using data from Finland and proposing guidelines for delineation of urban areas

Jaana Vanhatalo and Jenni Partanen

Do different types of Common Agricultural Policy subsidies promote farm employment?

Štefan Bojnec and Imre Fertő

Spatiotemporal evolution differences of urban green space: A comparative case study of Shanghai and Xuchang in China

Jie Liu, Lang Zhang, Qingping Zhang, Chao Li, Guilian Zhang and Yuncai Wang

Urban food policies and their influence on the development of Territorial Short Food Supply Chains: The case of cities in Colombia and Spain

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

Simulation of land-use pattern evolution in hilly mountainous areas of North China: A case study in Jincheng

Hongtao Xu, Youcheng Song and Yi Tian

Exploring the drivers of green agricultural development (GAD) in China: A spatial association network structure approaches

Zhe Chen, Apurbo Sarkar, Airin Rahman, Xiaojing Li and Xianli Xia

Urban area and nature-based solution: Is this an attractive solution for Generation Z?

Chiara Giachino, Luigi Bollani, Elisa Truant and Alessandro Bonadonna

How has the 2013 decoupled payment reform affected farmland rental values in Northern Ireland?

Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Simone Angioloni and Ziping Wu

Pattern-oriented calibration and validation of urban growth models: Case studies of Dublin, Milan and Warsaw

Judith A. Verstegen and Katarzyna Goch

Beyond average population density: Measuring sprawl with density-allocation indicators

Ioannis Tikoudis, Katherine Farrow, Rose Mba Mebiame and Walid Oueslati

What is the future of abandoned agricultural lands? A systematic review of alternative trajectories in Europe

Catherine M.J. Fayet, Kate H. Reilly, Chantal Van Ham and Peter H. Verburg

A cost-benefit analysis of applying urban agriculture in sustainable park design

Nazanin Hosseinpour, Fatemeh Kazemi and Hassan Mahdizadeh

The impact of downsizing protected areas: How a misguided policy may enhance landscape fragmentation and biodiversity loss

Eliezer O. Conceição, Jéssica Magon Garcia, Gustavo Henrique Zaia Alves, Driele Delanira-Santos, Daiany de Fátima Corbetta, Tânia Camila Crivelari Betiol, Ricardo Pacifico, Mariza Barion Romagnolo, Valéria Flávia Batista-Silva, Dayani Bailly, José Hilário Delconte Ferreira and Edivando Vitor do Couto

Evaluating the use of the landslide database in spatial planning in mountain communes (the Polish Carpathians)

Anna Bucała-Hrabia, Małgorzata Kijowska-Strugała, Przemysław Śleszyński, Zofia Rączkowska, Waldemar Izdebski and Zbigniew Malinowski

Has the growth of cities in Ghana anything to do with reduction in farm size and food production in peri-urban areas? A study of Bolgatanga Municipality

Issaka Kanton Osumanu and Enoch Aniah Ayamdoo

Increasing multiple cropping for land use intensification: The role of crop choice

Mingtao Xiang, Qiangyi Yu, Yan Li, Zhou Shi and Wenbin Wu

Global scientific production on LADM-based research: A bibliometric analysis from 2012 to 2020

Zeynel Abidin Polat, Mehmet Alkan, Jenny Paulsson, Jesper M. Paasch and Eftychia Kalogianni

Extensive Mediterranean agroecosystems and their linked traditional breeds: Societal demand for the conservation of the Majorcan black pig

Elsa Varela and Zein Kallas

Land integration and titling policy in China: Institutional barriers and countermeasures

Kai Liu, Wenjue Zhu and Mingzhong Luo

Simulating urban growth affected by national and regional land use policies: Case study from Wuhan, China

Xinxin Huang, Haijun Wang and Fentao Xiao

Can succession improve the economic situation of family farms in the short term? Evidence from Poland based on panel data

Michał Dudek and Aleksandra Pawłowska

Using geographically weighted regressions to explore spatial heterogeneity of land use influencing factors in Campania (Southern Italy)

Gennaro Punzo, Rosalia Castellano and Emma Bruno

Transit-oriented development with urban sprawl? Four phases of urban growth and policy intervention in Tokyo

Yudi Liu, Nabamita Nath, Akito Murayama and Rikutaro Manabe

What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts

Kostas Mouratidis and Athena Yiannakou

Highway expansion and urban sprawl in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area

Andhika Putra Pratama, Muhammad Yudhistira and Eric Koomen

Reinventing the industrial land use policy in democratized development states – A comparison of Taiwan and South Korea

An-Ting Cheng

Commercial gentrification and neighbourhood change: A dynamic view on local residents' quality of life in Tehran

Navid Forouhar, Amir Forouhar and Mahnoosh Hasankhani

The importance of protected habitats and LiDAR data availability for assessing scenarios of land uses in forest areas

Ana Hernando, Iñigo Sobrini, Javier Velázquez and Antonio García-Abril

The Promised Land: Contrasting frames of marginal land in the European Union

A. Muscat, E.M. de Olde, J.J.L. Candel, I.J.M. de Boer and R. Ripoll-Bosch

Farmer intentional pathways for net zero carbon: Exploring the lock-in effects of forestry and renewables

A.P. Barnes, J. McMillan, L.-A. Sutherland, J. Hopkins and S.G. Thomson

Food-security corridors: A crucial but missing link in tackling deforestation in Southwestern Ghana

Eric Mensah Kumeh, Claudia Bieling and Regina Birner

Navigating local environment and scientific knowledge in dryland social-ecological systems through linking ecological policy-household interactions with land surface dynamics

Qiangqiang Sun, Ping Zhang, Wanbei Jiang, Wei Qu, Yanan Sun and Danfeng Sun

Facilitating the participation of civil society in regional planning: Implementing quadruple helix model in Finnish regions

Mona Roman and Katharina Fellnhofer

Managing urban growth in the wake of climate change: Revisiting greenbelt policy in the US

Albert Tonghoon Han, Thomas L. Daniels and Chaeri Kim

Analysis of spatio-temporal drivers and convergence characteristics of urban development in Africa

Yacouba Kassouri and Oluyemi Okunlola

Fostering transitions in landscape policies: A multi-level perspective

Angela Barbanente and Laura Grassini

Is potential cultivated land expanding or shrinking in the dryland of China? Spatiotemporal evaluation based on remote sensing and SVM

Liping Cai, Hui Wang, Yanxu Liu, Donglin Fan and Xiaoxiao Li