Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 108, issue C, 2021

Reassessing the role of cattle and pasture in Brazil's deforestation: A response to “Fire, deforestation, and livestock: When the smoke clears”

Filipe França, Ricardo Solar, Alexander C. Lees, Lucas Pereira Martins, Erika Berenguer and Jos Barlow

Does participatory farmer-to-farmer training improve the adoption of sustainable land management practices?

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni and Isaac Luginaah

Tackling urban disparities through participatory culture-led urban regeneration. Insights from Lisbon

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes

Application of cooperative game theory in a spatial context: An example of the application of the community-led local development instrument for the decision support system of biogas plants construction

Robert Olszewski, Piotr Pałka, Agnieszka Wendland and Karolina Majdzińska

The economic impacts of the diffusion of agroforestry in Brazil

Alexandre Gori Maia, Gabriela dos Santos Eusebio, Maria do Carmo Ramos Fasiaben, Andre Steffens Moraes, Eduardo Delgado Assad and Vanessa Silva Pugliero

Design and implementation of 3D strata objects registration based on LADM – A case study in Malaysia

Nur Amalina Zulkifli, Alias Abdul Rahman and Siew Chengxi Bernad

LADM for sustainable development: An exploratory study on the application of domain-specific data models to support the SDGs

Eva-Maria Unger, Rohan Mark Bennett, Christiaan Lemmen and Jaap Zevenbergen

Amazon rainforest deforestation influenced by clandestine and regular roadway network

Patricia Bittencourt Tavares das Neves, Claudio José Cavalcante Blanco, André Augusto Azevedo Montenegro Duarte, Filipe Bittencourt Souza das Neves, Isabela Bittencourt Souza das Neves and Marcelo Henrique de Paula dos Santos

Implementation of meta-heuristic optimization algorithms for interview problem in land consolidation: A case study in Konya/Turkey

Sifa Ozsari, Harun Uguz and Huseyin Hakli

Incentive-based conservation in Peru: Assessing the state of six ongoing PES and REDD+ initiatives

Javier Montoya-Zumaeta, Sven Wunder and Luca Tacconi

Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? Evidence from northern Ethiopia

Stein Holden and Mesfin Tilahun

Exploring the effects of rural site conditions and household livelihood capitals on agricultural land transfers in China

Weiwen Wang, Jian Gong, Ying Wang and Yang Shen

Promoting cocoa agroforestry under conditions of separated ownership of land and trees: Strengthening customary tenure institutions in Cameroon

Achille Jean Jaza Folefack and Dietrich Darr

Normative, livelihood, and demographic influences on enrollment in a payment for ecosystem services program

Madeline M. Giefer, Li An and Xiaodong Chen

Harnessing land value capture: Perspectives from India’s urban rail corridors

Meenakshi Sinha

Not in my backyard: A hedonic approach to the construction timeline of wind turbines in Flanders, Belgium

Machteld Joly and Simon De Jaeger

Spatial dimensions of dichotomous adaptive responses to natural hazards in coastal districts of West Bengal, India

Subhas Bera, Arup Das and Taraknath Mazumder

The resource property question in climate stewardship and sustainability transitions

Alberto Alonso-Fradejas

Understanding institutional change mechanisms for land use: Lessons from Ecuador’s history

Claudia Coral, Wolfgang Bokelmann, Michelle Bonatti, Robert Carcamo and Stefan Sieber

Integrating aquaponics production systems into the Romanian green procurement network

Mioara Costache, Dragos Sebastian Cristea, Stefan-Mihai Petrea, Mihaela Neculita, Maria Magdalena Turek Rahoveanu, Ira-Adeline Simionov, Alina Mogodan, Daniela Sarpe and Adrian Turek Rahoveanu

Nature of common lands in a post-communist country – The Polish perspective

Katarzyna Kocur-Bera

Impact of urbanization on land complaints in Vinh City, Nghe An province

Pham Phuong Nam and Tran Thai Yen

The lived-experience of land-use among Northern Iranian farmers in land risk areas: A phenomenology study

Zakaria Mohammadi, Mostafa Ahmadvand, Maryam Sharifzadeh and Ismaeil Shahbazi

Rural land tenure resilience in postwar Syria: implications for restitution and stabilization

Jon D. Unruh

The balance between economic development and ecosystem service value in the process of land urbanization: A case study of China’s land urbanization from 2000 to 2015

Yanni Cao, Lingqiao Kong, Lufeng Zhang and Zhiyun Ouyang

Digital transformation of the agrifood system: Quantifying the conditioning factors to inform policy planning in the olive sector

Carlos Parra-López, Liliana Reina-Usuga, Carmen Carmona-Torres, Samir Sayadi and Laurens Klerkx

Ordered to volunteer? Institutional compatibility assessment of establishing agricultural cooperatives in Uzbekistan

Davron Niyazmetov, Ilkhom Soliev and Insa Theesfeld

Feature selection applications and model validation for mass real estate valuation systems

Sukran Yalpir, Suleyman Sisman, Ali Utku Akar and Fatma Bunyan Unel

Evaluation of alternative land-use scenarios using an ecosystem services-based strategic environmental assessment approach

Farzana Nijhum, Cherie Westbrook, Bram Noble, Ken Belcher and Patrick Lloyd-Smith

Analysis of off-site economic costs induced by runoff and soil erosion: Example of two areas in the northwestern European loess belt for the last two decades (Normandy, France)

Edouard Patault, Jérôme Ledun, Valentin Landemaine, Arnaud Soulignac, Jean-Baptiste Richet, Matthieu Fournier, Jean-François Ouvry, Olivier Cerdan and Benoit Laignel

Differences in the effectiveness of land consolidation projects in various countries and their causes: Examples of Poland and Turkey

Jarosław Janus and Ela Ertunç

Spatial mismatch analyses of school land in China using a spatial statistical approach

Wenwen Sun, Hongyu Jin, Yan Chen, Xin Hu, Zhuoran Li, Akari Kidd and Chunlu Liu

Vulnerability assessment of rural aging community for abandoned farmlands in South Korea

Jimin Lee, Yun-Gyeong Oh, Seung-Hwan Yoo and Kyo Suh

Green space optimization for rural vitality: Insights for planning and policy

Yongyuan Lin, Wei Shui, Zhipan Li, Shan Huang, Kexin Wu, Xiaorui Sun and Jingchen Liang

Local benevolent property development entrepreneurs in small town regeneration

Deborah Levy, Raewyn Hills, Harvey C. Perkins, Michael Mackay, Malcolm Campbell and Karen Johnston

Urban expansion-flood damage nexus: Evidence from the Dosso Region, Niger

Maurizio Tiepolo and Andrea Galligari

Nuanced insights into land buyer perceptions of engaging in rural land transactions from a cost perspective: Evidence from China’s emerging rural land market

Weifang Wang

Land grabbing on Brazil's Highway BR-319 as a spearhead for Amazonian deforestation

Lucas Ferrante, Maryane B.T. Andrade and Philip Fearnside

The role of logistics in promoting Italian agribusiness: The Belt and Road Initiative case study

Fabio Carlucci, Carlo Corcione, Paolo Mazzocchi and Barbara Trincone

The land governance cost on co-ownership: A study of the cross-lease in New Zealand

K.S. Cheung, S.K. Wong, H. Wu and C.Y. Yiu

Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?

Zhichao He, Chunhong Zhao, Christine Fürst and Anna M. Hersperger

A commentary on Botswana’s 2019 National Land Policy

Faustin Tirwirukwa Kalabamu

The role of food gardening in addressing urban sustainability – A new framework for analysing policy approaches

Ingrid Jahrl, Heidrun Moschitz and Joëlle Salomon Cavin

Decomposition analysis of bioresources: Implementing a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy strategy in the Baltic Sea Region

Genovaitė Liobikienė, Astrida Miceikienė and Janis Brizga

Institutional innovation in conservation law: Experiences from the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives in the Netherlands

Raoul Beunen and Sander Kole

Assessing accessibility to ASFs from bus stops using distance measures: Case of two Indian cities

Pavan Teja Yenisetty and Pankaj Bahadure

Integrating ecological equivalence for native vegetation compensation: A methodological approach

Kaline de Mello, Arthur Nicolaus Fendrich, Clarice Borges-Matos, Alice Dantas Brites, Paulo André Tavares, Gustavo Casoni da Rocha, Marcelo Matsumoto, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Gerd Sparovek and Jean Paul Metzger

Combining behavioral interventions with market forces in the implementation of land use planning in China: A theoretical framework embedded with nudge

Yuzhe Wu, Jiaming Shan and Charles L. Choguill

Evaluating the sustainability of urban renewal projects based on a model of hybrid multiple-attribute decision-making

Sheng-Hau Lin, Xianjin Huang, Guole Fu, Jia-Tsong Chen, Xiaofeng Zhao, Jia-Hsuan Li and Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng

The Urban Regeneration Engine Model: An analytical framework and case study of the renewal of old communities

Tiyan Shen, Xinyi Yao and Fenghua Wen

Licensing sustainability related aspects in Strategic Environmental Assessment. Evidence from Romania’s urban areas

Cristina-Gabriela Mitincu, Ioan-Cristian Ioja, Constantina-Alina Hossu, Martina Artmann, Andreea Nita and Mihai-Razvan Nita

What non-natural factors are behind the underuse of EU CAP funds in areas with valuable habitats?

Łukasz Wiśniewski, Roman Rudnicki and Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk

Freight operations in city centers: A land use conflict in urban planning

Paola Andrea Cruz-Daraviña and Juan Pablo Bocarejo Suescún

Do local governments follow their neighbours’ tax strategies? Tax mimicking amongst Polish municipalities

Maria Trojanek, Wojciech Kisiala and Radoslaw Trojanek

Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne

Farahnaz Sharifi, Andi Nygaard, Wendy M. Stone and Iris Levin

Can the performance evaluation change from central government suppress illegal land use in local governments? A new interpretation of Chinese decentralisation

Peng Tang, Yue Feng, Min Li and Yanyan Zhang

The influence of agricultural industrial policy on non-grain production of cultivated land: A case study of the “one village, one product” strategy implemented in Guanzhong Plain of China

Qi Yang and Daojun Zhang

Experts’ multiple criteria evaluations of fuel management options to reduce wildfire susceptibility. The role of closer knowledge of the local socioeconomic context

A. Martins, A. Novais, J.L. Santos and M.J. Canadas

Agricultural Innovation: A comparative analysis of economic benefits gained by farmers under climate resilient and conventional agricultural practices

Ihsan Jamil, Wen Jun, Bushra Mughal, Junaid Waheed, Hadi Hussain and Muhammad Waseem

It is not only about money —– German farmers' preferences regarding voluntary standards for farm sustainability management

Veronika Hannus and Johannes Sauer

How far are mangrove ecosystems in Benin (West Africa) conserved by the Ramsar Convention?

Elie Antoine Padonou, N. Innocent Gbaï, Moustapha Arèmou Kolawolé, Rodrigue Idohou and Mireille Toyi

National hiking trails: Regularization, statutory planning, and legislation

Havatzelet Yahel, Rachel Katoshevski-Cavari and Emir Galilee

Why do farmers abandon agricultural lands? The case of Western Iran

Reza Movahedi, Sina Jawanmardi, Hossein Azadi, Imaneh Goli, Ants-Hannes Viira and Frank Witlox

Optimization of cultivated land pattern for achieving cultivated land system security: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China

Lili Chen, Hongsheng Zhao, Ge Song and Ye Liu

Conservation agriculture strengthen sustainability of Brazilian grain production and food security

Guilherme Anghinoni, Fernanda Brunetta Godinho Anghinoni, Cássio Antonio Tormena, Alessandro Lucca Braccini, Ieda de Carvalho Mendes, Leandro Zancanaro and Rattan Lal

No life, no land: Homicide and dispossession in Mexico

Rodrigo Meneses-Reyes, Enrique García-Tejeda, Gustavo Fondevila and Ricardo Massa

Barriers and opportunities facing the UK Peatland Code: A case-study of blended green finance

Andrew Moxey, Mary-Ann Smyth, Emily Taylor and A. Prysor Williams

Land use decisions under REDD+ incentives when warming temperatures affect crop productivity and forest biomass growth rates

Ram Ranjan

Outcomes of farm investment in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of financial public support and investment scale

Wawrzyniec Czubak, Krzysztof Piotr Pawłowski and Arkadiusz Sadowski

Sustainability of agricultural production following deforestation in the tropics: Evidence on the value of newly-deforested, long-deforested and forested land in the Brazilian Amazon

Katrina Mullan, Jill L. Caviglia-Harris and Erin O. Sills

Analyzing blight impacts on urban areas: A multi-criteria approach

Ana M.F. Pinto, Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Ronald W. Spahr, Mark A. Sunderman, Kannan Govindan and Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė

Government policies endanger the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon

Katyanne V. Conceição, Michel E.D. Chaves, Michelle C.A. Picoli, Alber H. Sánchez, Anderson R. Soares, Guilherme A.V. Mataveli, Daniel E. Silva, Joelma S. Costa and Gilberto Camara

Overt and covert: The relationship between the transfer of land development rights and carbon emissions

Han Wang, Siying Lu, Bo Lu and Xin Nie

Urban expansion simulation under constraint of multiple ecosystem services (MESs) based on cellular automata (CA)-Markov model: Scenario analysis and policy implications

Yan Zhang, Xia Chang, Yanfang Liu, Yanchi Lu, Yiheng Wang and Yaolin Liu

Cost-effectiveness analysis of forest ecosystem services in mountain areas in Afghanistan

Saeeda Gouhari, Alan Forrest and Michaela Roberts

Understanding the contradiction between rural poverty and rich cultivated land resources: A case study of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China

Dongmei Li, Yuanyuan Yang, Guoming Du and Shanlin Huang

Identifying optimal forest stand selection under subsidization using stand-level optimal harvesting schedules

Kai Moriguchi

Time to adopt a context-specific and market-based compensation scheme for a new round of the Grain for Green Program

Jingming Liu, Haibin Chen, Xianhui Hou, Daojun Zhang and Hui Zhang

Land accumulation: An option for improving technical and environmental efficiencies of rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Vo Hong Tu, Steven W. Kopp, Nguyen Thuy Trang, Nguyen Bich Hong and Mitsuyasu Yabe

Risk-informed land-use planning in the Indian context: A social cost-benefit analysis

Sandip Roy