Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 103, issue C, 2021

Forest cover and land use map of the Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary based on participatory mapping and satellite images: Insight into Chunati beat

Tanjia Binte Zafar, Wenguang Ding, Shakir Ul Din, Ghulam Murtaza Khan, Chen Hao and Li He

The use of Islandscape character assessment and participatory spatial SWOT analysis to the strategic planning and sustainable development of small islands. The case of Gavdos

Aikaterini Gkoltsiou and Eleni Mougiakou

Impacts of land covers on stormwater runoff and urban development: A land use and parcel based regression approach

Long Zhou, Guoqiang Shen, Chaosu Li, Tian Chen, Sihong Li and Robert Brown

The 2008 map of consolidated rural areas in the Brazilian Legal Amazon state of Mato Grosso: Accuracy assessment and implications for the environmental regularization of rural properties

Damien Arvor, Vinicius Silgueiro, Gustavo Manzon Nunes, Jean Nabucet and André Pereira Dias

Planning peri-urban areas at regional level: The experience of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna (Italy)

Valentina Cattivelli

Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania?

Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag, Dacinia Crina Petrescu, Silviu Ciprian Todoran and Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag

Technical efficiency and the adoption of multiple agricultural technologies in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam

Nicolas Lampach, Nguyen To-The and Tuan Nguyen-Anh

Grass-roots participation to enhance public real estate properties. Just a fad?

Alessia Mangialardo and Ezio Micelli

Towards a holistic land law evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa: A novel framework with an application to Rwanda’s organic land law 2005

Oluwafemi Adekola, Pauliina Krigsholm and Kirsikka Riekkinen

Spatio-temporal stability of housing submarkets. Tracking spatial location of clusters of geographically weighted regression estimates of price determinants

Katarzyna Kopczewska and Piotr Ćwiakowski

Placing China’s land marketization: The state, market, and the changing geography of land use in Chinese cities

Ronghao Jiang and George C.S. Lin

Landscape expansion-place quality nexus revisited: How fundamental and transitory growth impact in China?

Linzi Zheng, Ke Chen, Shukui Tan, Chaohui Yin, Qingsong He and Jiayu Wu

Climate change risk perceptions and agricultural adaptation strategies in vulnerable riverine char islands of Bangladesh

Zobaer Ahmed, Gauri S. Guha, Aaron Shew and G.M. Monirul Alam

Whose expertise counts? Assisted migration and the politics of knowledge in British Columbia’s public forests

Ricardo Pelai, Shannon M. Hagerman and Robert Kozak

Multiple agents and self-organisation in complex cities: The crucial role of several property

Stefano Cozzolino and Stefano Moroni

Promises and potentials do not grow trees and crops. A review of institutional and policy research in agroforestry for the Southern African region

Nicholas. P. Ndlovu and Lars Borrass

How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector

Rilong Fei, Ziyi Lin and Joseph Chunga

Improvements in high-speed rail network environmental evaluation and planning: An assessment of accessibility gains and landscape connectivity costs in Spain

Belén Martín, Emilio Ortega, Ágata de Isidro and Carlos Iglesias-Merchan

Global forest management, carbon sequestration and bioenergy supply under alternative shared socioeconomic pathways

Adam Daigneault and Alice Favero

Towards residential buildings sustainability in a religious-tourism metropolis

Mahla Tayefi Nasrabadi and Hossein Hataminejad

Oil palm dispersal into protected wetlands: Human–environment dichotomies and the limits to governance in southern Mexico

Antonio Castellanos-Navarrete

Spatial and transient modelling of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics in a Sahelian landscape under semi-arid climate in northern Burkina Faso

R. Yonaba, M. Koïta, L.A. Mounirou, F. Tazen, P. Queloz, A.C. Biaou, D. Niang, C. Zouré, H. Karambiri and H. Yacouba

The contribution of Fintech to sustainable development in the digital age: Ant forest and land restoration in China

Yufei Zhang, Jiayin Chen, Yi Han, Mengxi Qian, Xiaona Guo, Ruishan Chen, Di Xu and Yi Chen

Factors influencing the adoption of agroforestry by smallholder farmer households in Tanzania: Case studies from Morogoro and Dodoma

Srijna Jha, Harald Kaechele and Stefan Sieber

Land use and travel burden of residents in urban fringe and rural areas: An evaluation of urban-rural integration initiatives in Beijing

Pengjun Zhao and Jie Wan

Porter effect test for construction land reduction

Keqiang Wang, Guoxiang Li and Hongmei Liu

Local government going offside? The gap between planning and implementation of sport development projects

Gidon S. Jakar, Eran Razin and Gillad Rosen

Haste makes waste: On the implications of rapid planning in Israel

Eran Feitelson, Anat Horowitz-Harel, Noam Levin, Zvi Mintz, Guy Steenekamp and Shaul Zaban

Policy feedback and lock-in effects of new agricultural policy instruments: A qualitative comparative analysis of support for financial risk management tools in OECD countries

Thies R. Popp, Peter H. Feindt and Katrin Daedlow

Effect of urban growth pattern on land surface temperature in China: A multi-scale landscape analysis of 338 cities

Yingxue Rao, Jingyi Dai, Deyi Dai and Qingsong He

Multi-stakeholder involvement in urban land use planning in the Ejisu Municipality, Ghana: An application of the social complexities’ theory

Michael Poku-Boansi

Time for change: Learning from community forests to enhance the resilience of multi-value forestry in British Columbia, Canada

Tahia Devisscher, Jillian Spies and Verena C. Griess

Foreign demand and high-rise luxury housing projects in two Turkish cities: Ankara and Trabzon

Leyla Alkan Gökler

China’s rural transformation under the Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou

Long Cheng

Effects of a carbon tax in the United States on agricultural markets and carbon emissions from land-use change

Jerome Dumortier and Amani Elobeid

Identifying agricultural areas with potential for city connections: A regional-scale methodology for urban planning

Guy Boussougou Boussougou, Esther Sanz Sanz, Claude Napoléone and Davide Martinetti

The spatial impact of rural economic change on river water quality

O’Donoghue, Cathal, Cathal Buckley, Aksana Chyzheuskaya, Stuart Green, Peter Howley, Stephen Hynes, Vincent Upton and Mary Ryan

Understanding the impact of land finance on industrial structure change in China: Insights from a spatial econometric analysis

Di Wang, Cairu Ren and Tao Zhou

China’s forest land use change in the globalized world economy: Foreign trade and unequal household consumption

Siyi Kan, Bin Chen, Mengyao Han, Tasawar Hayat, Hamed Alsulami and Guoqian Chen

Understanding rural resettlement paths under the increasing versus decreasing balance land use policy in China

Wenwen Gao, Walter Timo de Vries and Qianyu Zhao

Citizen science for sustainable agriculture – A systematic literature review

Larmbert Ebitu, Helen Avery, Khaldoon A. Mourad and Joshua Enyetu

Agrarian reform in the Brazilian Midwest: Difficulties of modernization via conventional or organic production systems

Olivier François Vilpoux, Jenifer Ferreira Gonzaga and Matheus Wemerson Gomes Pereira

Farmer typology and implications for policy design – An unsupervised machine learning approach

Viktoria Graskemper, Xiaohua Yu and Jan-Henning Feil

Agricultural production under rural tourism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: From the perspective of smallholder farmers

Yang Lun, Sun Jing, Liu Moucheng and Min Qingwen

Spatial determinants of land redevelopment in the urban renewal processes in Shenzhen, China

Yani Lai, Bosin Tang, Xiangsheng Chen and Xian Zheng

Towards a comprehensive understanding of intercity cooperation in China’s city-regionalization: A comparative study of Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Foshan city groups

Xianchun Zhang, Jianfa Shen and Xiaoxue Gao

Environmental, demographic and policy drivers of change in mediterranean hedgerow landscape (Central Spain)

Fernando Allende Álvarez, Gillian Gómez Mediavilla and Nieves López Estébanez

On the effectiveness of restricted tendering as a form of policy intervention on agricultural land markets

Cord-Friedrich von Hobe and Oliver Musshoff

How do upzonings impact neighborhood demographic change? Examining the link between land use policy and gentrification in New York City

Jenna Davis

Volume 102, issue C, 2021

Tropical forest conversion and its impact on indigenous communities Mapping forest loss and shrinking gathering grounds in the Western Ghats, India

Dhanya Vijayan, Harald Kaechele, Renoy Girindran, Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Martin C. Lukas and Muhammad Arshad

The cost-effectiveness of conservation auctions in the presence of asset specificity: An agent-based model

Elsa Cardona Santos, Hugo Storm and Sebastian Rasch

A participatory planning model in the context of Historic Urban Landscape: The case of Kyrenia’s Historic Port Area

Özge Kırmızı and Aykut Karaman

Addressing complex challenges in transformations and planning: A fuzzy spatial multicriteria analysis for identifying suitable locations for urban infrastructures

Caterina Caprioli and Marta Bottero

Strengthening flood resilient development in malaysia through integration of flood risk reduction measures in local plans

Nur Zainul Arifin Norizan, Norhaslina Hassan and Mariney Mohd Yusoff

Identifying the effects of a land-use policy on willingness to pay for open space using an endogenous switching regression model

Yangzhe Cao, Brent Swallow and Feng Qiu

How much land is available for sustainable palm oil?

John Frederick D. Tapia, Stephen S. Doliente and Sheila Samsatli

Agricultural land use management responses to a cap and trade regime for water quality in Lake Taupo catchment, New Zealand

E. Anne Spicer, Simon Swaffield and Kevin Moore

Credibility of the cadastral data on land use and the methodology for their verification and update

Agnieszka Cienciała, Katarzyna Sobolewska-Mikulska and Szymon Sobura

Landholders’ perception of conversion of steep lands to orchard schemes: Land use policy implications in North Iran

Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh, Hossein Azadi, Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh, Leila Jahangir, Kristina Janečková, Petr Sklenička, Rong Tan and Frank Witlox

Integrating spontaneous urban woodlands into the green infrastructure: Unexploited opportunities for urban regeneration

Giovanni Trentanovi, Thomas Campagnaro, Ingo Kowarik, Michele Munafò, Paolo Semenzato and Tommaso Sitzia

The regeneration of military brownfields in Serbia: Moving towards deliberative planning practice?

Ana Peric and Milutin Miljus

A typical phenomenon of cultivated land use in China's economically developed areas: Anti-intensification in Jiangsu Province

Xinyuan Liang, Xiaobin Jin, Rui Sun, Bo Han, Jing Liu and Yinkang Zhou

Framing social sustainability and justice claims in urban regeneration: A comparative analysis of two cases in Guangzhou

Zhonghua Gu and Xiaoling Zhang

Evaluating the effects of European support measures for Italian organic farms

Nicola Casolani, Eugenia Nissi, Antonio Giampaolo and Lolita Liberatore

The effects of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems in peri-urban protected areas of Mexico City: The contradictory discourse of conservation amid expansion of informal settlements

Angela Caro-Borrero, Javier Carmona-Jiménez, Karla Rivera-Ramírez and Kaitlen Bieber

Farmers’ heterogeneous preferences towards results-based environmental policies

Olli Niskanen, Annika Tienhaara, Emmi Haltia and Eija Pouta

Customary governance of artisanal and small-scale mining in Guinea: Social and environmental practices and outcomes⋆

Heather Huntington and Kate Marple-Cantrell

Payments by modelled results: A novel design for agri-environmental schemes

Bartosz Bartkowski, Nils Droste, Mareike Ließ, William Sidemo-Holm, Ulrich Weller and Mark Brady

Dynamics of spatial relationships among ecosystem services and their determinants: Implications for land use system reform in Northwestern China

Rongfang Lyu, Keith C. Clarke, Jianming Zhang, Junli Feng, Xuehui Jia and Jijun Li

Explaining objective forces, driving forces, and causal mechanisms affecting the formation and expansion of the peri-urban areas: A critical realism approach

Hashem Dadashpoor and Somayeh Ahani

Impacts of tenure security and market-oriented allocation of farmland on agricultural productivity: Evidence from China’s apple growers

Xingguang Li, Jundi Liu and Xuexi Huo

Technical experts’ perspectives of justice-related norms: Lessons from everyday environmental practices in Indonesia

Jia Yen Lai, Sam Staddon and Alistair Hamilton

Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China

Xue Xie, Bin Fang, Hanzeyu Xu, Shasha He and Xin Li

Exploring the spatial spillover effect of home purchase restrictions on residential land prices based on the difference-in-differences approach: Evidence from 195 Chinese cities

Xian Zheng, Xingtao Chen and Ziqing Yuan

Institutional form versus function in a common property context: The credibility thesis tested through an agent-based model

Amineh Ghorbani, Peter Ho and Giangiacomo Bravo

A succinct review and analysis of drivers and impacts of agricultural land transformations in Asia

S.V.R.K. Prabhakar

Spatial differentiation characteristics and driving mechanism of rural-industrial Land transition: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China

Mengyao Xu and Zhengfeng Zhang

Spatio-temporal analysis of the effects of biogas production on agricultural lands

Isaac Kyere, Thomas Astor, Rüdiger Graß, Thomas Fricke and Michael Wachendorf

Terrorist attacks, land resource competition and violent farmer-herder conflicts

Justin George, Adesoji Adelaja, Titus Awokuse and Olufemi Vaughan

The potential of agroforestry concessions to stabilize Amazonian forest frontiers: a case study on the economic and environmental robustness of informally settled small-scale cocoa farmers in Peru

Benno Pokorny, Valentina Robiglio, Martin Reyes, Ricardo Vargas Romero and Cesar Francesco Patiño Carrera

Land clearing in south-eastern Australia: Drivers, policy effects and implications for the future

E.C. Heagney, D.S. Falster and M. Kovač

A capacity assessment framework for the fit-for-purpose land administration systems: The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Rwanda and Kenya

Evrim Tan, Valérie Pattyn, César Casiano Flores and Joep Crompvoets

How does the removal of federal subsidies affect investment in coastal protection infrastructure?

Jordan Branham, Kyle Onda, Nikhil Kaza, Todd K. BenDor and David Salvesen

Bi-temporal foundation for LADM v2: Fusing event and state based modelling of Land administration data 2D and 3D

Rodney Thompson and Peter van Oosterom

LADM extensions to maritime domain in multi-register environment - Case study Croatia

Veljko Flego, Miodrag Roić and Irena Benasić

Planning for the future of derelict farm premises: From abandonment to regeneration?

Petr Klusáček, Josef Navrátil, Stanislav Martinát, Tomáš Krejčí, Oleg Golubchikov, Kamil Pícha, Jaroslav Škrabal and Robert Osman

Women’s empowerment in agriculture and household food insecurity: Evidence from Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan

Noshaba Aziz, Yanjun Ren, Kong Rong and Jin Zhou

Understanding cognitive and socio-psychological factors determining farmers’ intentions to use improved grassland: Implications of land use policy for sustainable pasture production

Ehsan Elahi, Hongxia Zhang, Xing Lirong, Zainab Khalid and Haiyun Xu

Conditions underlying agricultural land lease in Poland, in the context of the agency theory

Renata Marks-Bielska

Design and development of an LADM-driven 3D Land administration system: Lessons learned in Malaysia

Abbas Rajabifard, Behnam Atazadeh, Mohsen Kalantari, Hamed Olfat, Davood Shojaei and Farshad Badiee

Examining the influencing factors of forest health, its implications on rural revitalization: A case study of five forest farms in Beijing

Shasha Lu, Yi Zhou, Haisheng Sun, Ni Chen and Xingliang Guan

Farming under irrigation management transfer scheme and its impact on yield and net returns in Ghana

Enoch Owusu-Sekyere, Cindy Bibariwiah, Victor Owusu and Emmanuel Donkor

From underground utility survey to land administration: An underground utility 3D data model

Jingya Yan, Rob Van Son and Kean Huat Soon

Are climate risks encouraging cover crop adoption among farmers in the southern Wabash River Basin?

Landon Yoder, Matthew Houser, Analena Bruce, Abigail Sullivan and James Farmer

Viewpoint: How should policy respond to land abandonment in Europe?

Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton

Dynamics of local governance: The case of peatland restoration in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Rizky Januar, Eli Nur Nirmala Sari and Surahman Putra

Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study

Ferdinand Adu-Baffour, Thomas Daum and Regina Birner

A sustainable framework for spatial planning of photovoltaic solar farms using GIS and multi-criteria assessment approach in Central Anatolia, Turkey

Emre Tercan, Abdurrahman Eymen, Tuğrul Urfalı and Burak Omer Saracoglu

Changes in the spatial development of flood hazard areas in Poland between 1990 and 2018 in the light of legal conditions

Marta Borowska-Stefańska, Sławomir Kobojek, Michał Kowalski, Marek Lewicki, Przemysław Tomalski and Szymon Wiśniewski

Reexamine China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance under land use-type and climate change

Jiasheng Li, Xiaomin Guo, Xiaowei Chuai, Fangjian Xie, Feng Yang, Runyi Gao and Xuepeng Ji

Barriers to affordable housing on brownfield sites

Graham Squires and Norman Hutchison

Can ceding planning controls for major projects support metropolitan housing supply and diversity? The case of Sydney, Australia

Catherine Gilbert and Nicole Gurran

Framing territorial regeneration decisions: Purpose, perspective and scope

V. Ferretti

Unity in diversity? When advocacy coalitions and policy beliefs grow trees in South Africa

Arttu Malkamäki, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Maria Brockhaus, Anne Toppinen and Paul M. Wagner

Natural amenities and low-density residential development: Magnitude and spatial scale of influences

Dawson Reisig, Katrina Mullan, Andrew Hansen, Scott Powell, David Theobald and Rachel Ulrich

Territory spatial planning and national governance system in China

Yansui Liu and Yang Zhou