Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 110, issue C, 2021

Assessment of the land inventory approach for securing tenure of lawful and bona fide occupants on private Mailo land in Uganda

Moses Musinguzi, Thorsten Huber, Daniel Kirumira and Pamella Drate

A closer look at Turkish cadastre and its successful completion

Orhan Ercan

Property taxation in India: Issues impacting revenue performance and suggestions for reform

Rajul Awasthi, Mohan Nagarajan and Klaus Deininger

Housing ownership Gender differences in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aphichoke Kotikula and Wameq Raza

Community-based feedback to improve land pooling for planned urbanization: A case study of Thimphu, Bhutan

Katie Farrin, Jade R. Laranjo and Nina Ashley Dela Cruz

Key challenges to advancing land tenure security through land governance in Malawi: Impact of land reform processes on implementation efforts

Janet Chikaya-Banda and Davie Chilonga

Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Godfrey Mahofa and Rhona Nyakulama

Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries

Laura Notess, Peter Veit, Iliana Monterroso, Andiko,, Emmanuel Sulle, Anne M. Larson, Anne-Sophie Gindroz, Julia Quaedvlieg and Andrew Williams

Volume 109, issue C, 2021

Private land conservation policy in Australia: Minimising social-ecological trade-offs raised by market-based policy instruments

Tessa Royal

A new model of village urbanization? Coordinative governance of state-village relations in Guangzhou City, China

Siu Wai Wong, Yao Dai, Bo-sin Tang and Jinlong Liu

Conflict in informal rural construction land transfer practices in China: A case of Hubei

Wan Jiali, Liu Yanfang and Zhang Xiaoling

Groundwater and the water-food-energy nexus: The grants for water resources use and its importance and necessity of integrated management

Eliana Cristina Moraes-Santos, Rubens Alves Dias and Jose Antonio Perrella Balestieri

Spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations

Xiao Ouyang, Lisha Tang, Xiao Wei and Yonghui Li

Are small towns really inefficient? A data envelopment analysis of sampled towns in Jiangsu province, China

Xu Yin, Jing Wang, Yurui Li, Zhiming Feng and Qianyi Wang

How do different rural-land-consolidation modes shape farmers’ ecological production behaviors?

Jinhua Xie, Gangqiao Yang, Ge Wang, Yan Song and Fan Yang

Colombia’s pathway to a more sustainable cattle sector: A spatial multi-criteria analysis

Andrés Zuluaga, Andrés Etter, Daniel Nepstad, Julián Chará, Claudia Stickler and Matthew Warren

Pastureland use of China: Accounting variations from different input-output analyses

Chaohui Li, Xudong Wu, Guoqian Chen, Mengyao Han, Kuang Chen, Ciren Yangzong, Dan Lo, Ahmed Alsaedi and Tasawar Hayat

An urban system assessment of Land Value Capture: The Colombian case

Nestor Garza and Ivan Gonzalez

Understanding residents’ acceptance of professional urban and peri-urban farming: A socio-economic study in Polish metropolitan areas

Wojciech Sroka, Jolanta Bojarszczuk, Łukasz Satoła, Barbara Szczepańska, Piotr Sulewski, Sławomir Lisek, Lidia Luty and Monika Zioło

Pandemic Victory Gardens: Potential for local land use policies

Janet Music, Erica Finch, Pallavi Gone, Sandra Toze, Sylvain Charlebois and Lisa Mullins

An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis

Kanesh Suresh, Uttam Khanal, Clevo Wilson, Shunsuke Managi, Annette Quayle and Samithamby Santhirakumar

Land tenure regimes for women in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana: Opportunities and threats

Frank Akowuge Dugasseh, Clement Aapengnuo and Marianne Zandersen

A study on farmers' satisfaction and happiness after the land sale for urban expansion in India

Pankaj Kumar, Parveen Kumar and Ramesh Kumar Garg

Do residents care about urban dumps? Evidence from individual housing transaction data

Yingdan Mei, Jixiang Qiu, Jialu Wu and Lina Meng

The evaluation of agricultural landowner inputs before and after land consolidation: The Kesik Village example

Sevgi Kesici Bahar and Müge Kirmikil

Building infrastructures for inclusive regeneration

Jason Slade, Andy Inch and Lee Crookes

Outcome-focused plan discretion for facilitating residential intensification: Exploring the insights and experience of property developers and planners

Wen Liu, Lee Beattie and Errol Haarhoff

Impact of livelihood capital endowment on poverty alleviation of households under rural land consolidation

Wenxiong Wang, Yuanqin Lan and Xu Wang

The nexus between growth strategies of master plans and spatial dynamics of a metropolitan city: The case of Lahore, Pakistan

Zahid Hussain and Obaidullah Nadeem

Property rights and wrongs: Land reforms for sustainable food production in rural Mali

Edmond Totin, Alcade Segnon, Carla Roncoli, Mary Thompson-Hall, Amadou Sidibé and Edward Carr

Factors influencing the level of vegetable value chain participation and implications on smallholder farmers in Swayimane KwaZulu-Natal

P.N. Ndlovu, J.M. Thamaga-Chitja and T.O. Ojo

Intergenerational farm succession: How does gender fit?

Alison Sheridan, Lucie Newsome, Tanya Howard, Andrew Lawson and Skye Saunders

Spatial diversification of property tax policy – Searching for yardstick competition in Polish metropolitan areas

Agnieszka Małkowska, Agnieszka Telega, Michał Głuszak and Bartłomiej Marona

Digital Agora – Knowledge acquisition from spatial databases, geoinformation society VGI and social media data

Robert Olszewski and Agnieszka Wendland

Perceptions about switchgrass and land allocation decisions: Evidence from a farmer survey in Missouri

Pralhad Burli, Pankaj Lal, Bernabas Wolde, Shibu Jose and Sougata Bardhan

Application of gis technology and AHP to determine the areas with fully developed, compact functional and spatial structure: A case study of Bialystok, Poland

Karolina Ogrodnik and Łukasz Kolendo

Designing all-inclusive land administration systems: A case study from Colombia

Javier Morales, Christiaan Lemmen, Rolf A. de By, Alvaro Enrique Ortiz Dávila and Mathilde Molendijk

Climate-related land use policies in Brazil: How much has been achieved with economic incentives in agriculture?

Marcelo Carauta, Christian Troost, Ivan Guzman-Bustamante, Anna Hampf, Affonso Libera, Katharina Meurer, Eric Bönecke, Uwe Franko, Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues and Thomas Berger

Dynamics of deforestation worldwide: A structural decomposition analysis of agricultural land use in South America

Alberto Franco-Solís and Claudia Montanía

Agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity and environmental protection: How we are not yet “hitting the right keys”

Emmanouil Tyllianakis and Julia Martin-Ortega

An empirical study of land rental development in rural Gansu, China: The role of agricultural cooperatives and transaction costs

Xinyi Li and Junichi Ito

Influencing factors of farmers' adoption of pro-environmental agricultural technologies in China: Meta-analysis

Hualin Xie and Yingqian Huang

Bayesian analysis of demand for urban green space: A contingent valuation of developing a new urban park

Dambala Gelo and Jane Turpie

Changes in energy and livestock systems largely explain the forest transition in Austria (1830–1910)

Simone Gingrich, Christian Lauk, Fridolin Krausmann, Karl-Heinz Erb and Julia Le Noë

Alleviating energy poverty for forest conservation: It seems to work, but what are we missing?

Canh Phuc Nguyen and Thanh Su

Assessing landowners’ preferences to inform voluntary private land conservation: The role of non-monetary incentives

Gonzalo Cortés-Capano, Nick Hanley, Oleg Sheremet, Anna Hausmann, Tuuli Toivonen, Gustavo Garibotto-Carton, Alvaro Soutullo and Enrico Di Minin

Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China

Hui Mao, Li Zhou, RuiYao Ying and Dan Pan

Urban carrying capacity assessment framework for mega mall development. A case study of Tehran’s 22 municipal districts

Saeed Esfandi and Farshad Nourian

Switching behavior in the adoption of a land information system in China: A perspective of the push–pull–mooring framework

Zhongping Zeng, Siqi Li, Jiunn-Woei Lian, Jiang Li, Tao Chen and Yujia Li

‘Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors

Richmond Juvenile Ehwi and Divine Asafo Mawuli

Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden

Sara Teitelbaum, Maria Tysiachniouk, Constance McDermott and Marine Elbakidze

Effect of land tenure on forest cover and the paradox of private titling in Panama

Kendra L. Walker

Top-down intergovernmental relations and power-building from below in China's urban redevelopment: An urban political order perspective

Yang Yu, Chris Hamnett, Yumin Ye and Wenwen Guo

Eliciting farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for land use attributes in Northwest Ethiopia: A discrete choice experiment study

Wubante Fetene Admasu, Steven Van Passel, Jan Nyssen, Amare Sewnet Minale and Enyew Adgo Tsegaye

Blockchain on stool land acquisition: Lessons from Ghana for strengthening land tenure security other than titling

Kwabena Mintah, Festival Godwin Boateng, Kingsley Tetteh Baako, Eric Gaisie and Gideon Kwame Otchere

Ecological condition and management status of Community Forests in Indian western Himalaya

Ravi Pathak, Shinny Thakur, Vikram S. Negi, Ranbeer S. Rawal, Amit Bahukhandi, Kamini Durgapal, Anjali Barola, Deep Tewari and Indra D. Bhatt

A topological-based approach for determining spatial relationships of complex volumetric parcels in land administration systems

Ruba Jaljolie, Kirsikka Riekkinen and Sagi Dalyot

Structural equation modeling for indicators of sustainable agriculture: Prospective of a developing country’s agriculture

Apurbo Sarkar, Jony Abdul Azim, Abdullah Al Asif, Lu Qian and Anamika Kor Peau

Studentification and governance in South Africa: Dependencies and conflicts

Job Gbadegesin, Lochner Marais, Stuart Denoon-Stevens, Jan Cloete, Anita Venter, Kholisa Rani, Molefi Lenka, Malene Campbell and Quintin Koetaan

Research on the collaborative governance of urban regeneration based on a Bayesian network: The case of Chongqing

Guiwen Liu, Xinyue Fu, Qingye Han, Ruopeng Huang and Taozhi Zhuang

Easement spatialization with two cases based on LADM and BIM

Shen Ying, Yifan Xu, Chengpeng Li, Renzhong Guo and Lin Li

Clustering the built form at LAU2 level for addressing sustainable policies: Insights from the Belgium case study

Silvia Ronchi, Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri

Contribution of ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in a changing landscape: A case study from the Eastern Himalaya

Nakul Chettri, Kamal Aryal, Sanjan Thapa, Kabir Uddin, Pratikshya Kandel and Seema Karki

Analyses of new artificial surfaces in the catchment area of 12 Hungarian middle-sized towns between 1990 and 2018

Vera Iváncsics and Krisztina Filepné Kovács

Examining the impact of land consolidation titling policy on farmers’ fertiliser use: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Xinyan Hu, Keyu Su, Wenhui Chen, Siqi Yao and Lu Zhang

Testing a fit-for-purpose (FFP) model for strengthening customary land rights and tenure to improve household food security in Northwest Ghana

Baslyd B. Nara, Monica Lengoiboni and J.A. Zevenbergen

Policies to reconcile forest conservation and rural development: A pathway to bridge the forest transition in Bhutan?

Arndt Feuerbacher, Arun Rai, Hans Lofgren, Klas Sander and Harald Grethe

Has the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China impacted the income and employment of rural households?

Lingchao Li, Can Liu, Jinlong Liu and Baodong Cheng

Lessons learned from participatory land use planning with high-resolution remote sensing images in Tanzania: Practitioners' and participants’ perspectives

Salla Eilola, Niina Käyhkö and Nora Fagerholm

From urban underground space (UUS) to sustainable underground urbanism (SUU): Shifting the focus in urban underground scholarship

Loretta von der Tann, Stefan Ritter, Sarah Hale, Jenny Langford and Sean Salazar

Land tenure security and agrarian investments in the Peruvian Highlands

Sandro Navarro-Castañeda, Jose Arranz, Mercedes Burguillo and Esteban Colla De Robertis

Climate change and land-use in Indian agriculture

Pratap Birthal, Jaweriah Hazrana, Digvijay Negi and Subhash C. Bhan

The more the merrier? Questioning the role of new commercial and industrial locations for employment growth in German city regions

Mathias Jehling, Angelika Krehl and Tobias Krüger

Water quality issues and agriculture: An international review of innovative policy schemes

Alice Berthet, Audrey Vincent and Philippe Fleury

The value of public urban green spaces: Measuring the effects of proximity to and size of urban green spaces on housing market values in San José, Costa Rica

Matías Piaggio

Mapping oil palm-related land use change in Guatemala, 2003–2019: Implications for food security

Anastasia Hervas

Social multi-criteria evaluation for managing biodiversity conservation conflicts

Aitor Andonegi, Eneko Garmendia and Arantza Aldezabal

Mitigating “displaced” land degradation and the risk of spillover through the decommoditization of land products

Jean-Luc Chotte and Barron Joseph Orr

The conservation of cultural heritage in rural areas: Stakeholder preferences regarding historical rural buildings in Apulia, southern Italy

Ruggiero Sardaro, Piermichele La Sala, Gianluigi De Pascale and Nicola Faccilongo

Community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): Determinants and policy implications in Tanzania

Raphael Owusu, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Francis Moyo

Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter?

Daniel Kangogo, Domenico Dentoni and Jos Bijman

From a cluster of villages to a city: Housing politics and the dilemmas of spatial planning in Tamale, Ghana

Ibrahim Yakubu

Appropriate policy-making for rural regions management in Iran

Ali Afsharipour, Hamid Barghi and Yosef Ghanbari

Gradient characteristics of China's land use patterns and identification of the east-west natural-socio-economic transitional zone for national spatial planning

Jingjing Liu, Jing Wang, Tianlin Zhai, Zehui Li, Longyang Huang and Shaohua Yuan

Analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics of urban sprawl and growth pattern using geospatial technologies and landscape metrics in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia

Kenu Getu and H Gangadhara Bhat

The consequences for stream water quality of long-term changes in landscape patterns: Implications for land use management and policies

António Carlos Pinheiro Fernandes, Lisa Maria de Oliveira Martins, Fernando António Leal Pacheco and Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes

Moving niche agroecological initiatives to the mainstream: A case-study of sheep-vineyard integration in California

Julie Ryschawy, Sara Tiffany, Amélie Gaudin, Meredith T. Niles and Rachael Garrett

Why municipalities grow: The influence of fiscal incentives on municipal land policies in Germany and the Netherlands

Vera Götze and Thomas Hartmann

Types of planning systems and effects on construction material volumes: An explanatory analysis in Europe

Mihály Dombi

Zoning regulation and development model for water and land resources in the Karst Mountainous Region of Southwest China

Kun Tan, Xiaoqing Zhao, Junwei Pu, Sinan Li, Yuhao Li, Peipei Miao and Qian Wang

Evolution characteristics and driving factors of negative decoupled rural residential land and resident population in the Yellow River Basin

Linna Shi and Yongsheng Wang

Urban agriculture potential of home gardens in residential land uses: A case study of regional City of Dubbo, Australia

Sumita Ghosh

Title Validation and collaborative mapping to accelerate quality assurance of land registration

Trias Aditya, Purnama Budi Santosa, Yulaikhah Yulaikhah, Nurrohmat Widjajanti, Dedi Atunggal and Miranty Sulistyawati

Local deforestation spillovers induced by forest moratoria: Evidence from Indonesia

Floris Leijten, Sarah Sim, Henry King and Peter H. Verburg

Expansion of construction land along the motorway in rapidly developing areas in Cambodia

Yutian Liang, Jiaqi Zeng, Wei Sun, Keyang Zhou and Zhengke Zhou

The impact of rural land consolidation on household poverty alleviation: The moderating effects of human capital endowment

Xin Cheng, Jia Chen, Shiwei Jiang, Yan Dai, Chuanmin Shuai, Wenjing Li, Yue Liu, Chaofan Wang, Min Zhou, Lianghui Zou, Pan Zhang and Xiwen Kang

Spatial gaps – Narrowing or widening? Changes in spatial dynamics in the new millennium

Ravit Hananel, Sagit Azary-Viesel and Harel Nachmany

Investigating application of compact urban form in central Indian cities

Tanushri Kamble and Sarika Bahadure

Detecting the land use of ancient transhumance routes (Tratturi) and their potential for Italian inner areas’ growth

Luigi Mastronardi, Agostino Giannelli and Luca Romagnoli

Toward serving land consolidation on the table of sustainability: An overview of the research landscape and future directions

Yuzhu Zang, Yuanyuan Yang and Yansui Liu

Value of land properties in the context of planning conditions risk on the example of the suburban zone of a Polish city

Małgorzata Krajewska, Kinga Szopińska and Ewa Siemińska

Developing payment-by-results approaches for agri-environment schemes: Experience from an arable trial in England

S.P. Chaplin, J. Mills and H. Chiswell

Reflections on China's food security and land use policy under rapid urbanization

Yansui Liu and Yang Zhou

Exploring the coordination between physical space expansion and social space growth of China’s urban agglomerations based on hierarchical analysis

Rui Xiao, Xiaoyu Yu, Ting Xiang, Zhonghao Zhang, Xue Wang and Jianguo Wu

An adaptation of reference class forecasting for the assessment of large-scale urban planning vision, a SEM-ANN approach to the case of Hong Kong Lantau tomorrow

You Zhou, Lingzhu Zhang and Alain J F Chiaradia

Rezoning prior urban planning period for urban space development in Injibara Town, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Nigatu Amsalu Workineh

Are biodiversity perception and attitudes context dependent? A comparative study using a mixed-method approach

Fátima Bernardo, Isabel Loupa-Ramos and Joana Carvalheiro

Understanding stakeholder preferences for future biogas development in Germany

Terese E. Venus, Felix Strauss, Thomas Venus and Johannes Sauer

Employing remote sensing technique to monitor the influence of newly established universities in creating an urban development process on the respective cities

Mehmet Cetin, Talha Aksoy, Saye Nihan Cabuk, Muzeyyen Anil Senyel Kurkcuoglu and Alper Cabuk

Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China

Jing Li, Kevin Lo, Pingyu Zhang and Meng Guo

A method for the determination of urban transformation areas in Kocaeli

Tayfun Salihoğlu, Ayşe Nur Albayrak and Yaşasın Eryılmaz

Effects of settlement designs on deforestation and fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon

Maria Tereza Ribeiro Alves, Valderli Jorge Piontekowski, Erika Buscardo, Marcos Antonio Pedlowski, Edson Eyji Sano and Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi

Armed conflict and cross-border asymmetries in urban development: A contextualized spatial analysis of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gisenyi, Rwanda

Pech Lisa, Levers Christian, Büscher Karen and Walker Blake

It's a keeper: Valuing the carbon storage service of Agroforestry ecosystems in the context of CAP Eco-Schemes

Lia Laporta, Tiago Domingos and Cristina Marta-Pedroso

Analysing the dynamics of land use in the context of current conservation policies and land tenure in the Cerrado – MATOPIBA region (Brazil)

Silvia Palotti Polizel, Rita Marcia da Silva Pinto Vieira, João Pompeu, Yara da Cruz Ferreira, Eráclito Rodrigues de Sousa-Neto, Alexandre Augusto Barbosa and Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape

Yolanda Jiménez-Olivencia, Álvaro Ibáñez-Jiménez, Laura Porcel-Rodríguez and Karl Zimmerer

Ecosystem-based adaptation in cities: Use of formal and informal planning instruments

Philipp Schneider, Ariane Walz, Christian Albert and Torsten Lipp

Mixed-use distribution index: A novel bilevel measure to address urban land-use mix pattern (A case study in Tehran, Iran)

Hamid Motieyan and Mohammad Azmoodeh

The most places at risk surrounding the COVID-19 treatment hospitals in an urban environment- case study: Tehran city

Najmeh Neysani Samany, Ara Toomanian, Ali Maher, Khatereh Hanani and Ali Reza Zali

How does practice matches land laws in Central Asia?

Zarema Akhmadiyeva and Thomas Herzfeld

Sustainable solutions to facilitate brownfield redevelopment projects in emerging countries – Pakistani scenario

Naveed Ahmad, Yuming Zhu, Zia Ullah, Muzaffar Iqbal, Kramat Hussain and Rahil Irfan Ahmed

A novel public-private-people partnership framework in regeneration of old urban neighborhoods in Iran

Amin Alvanchi, Mohammad Amin Jafari, Mohammad Shabanlou and Zeinab Meghdadi

Transhumant pastoralist knowledge of infectious diseases and adoption of alternative land use strategies in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region of Pakistan

Ayat Ullah, Alam Zeb, Jinlong Liu, Nasir Mahmood and Harald Kächele

Designing and implementing a LADM-based cadastral information system in Serbia, Montenegro and Republic of Srpska

Miro Govedarica, Aleksandra Radulović and Dubravka Sladić

Evaluating historic preservation zoning using a landscape approach

Qingsong He, Peter Larkham and Jiayu Wu