Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 95, issue C, 2020

Maize production and environmental costs: Resource evaluation and strategic land use planning for food security in northern Ghana by means of coupled emergy and data envelopment analysis

Francis Molua Mwambo, Christine Fürst, Benjamin K. Nyarko, Christian Borgemeister and Christopher Martius

Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi

Eleanor K.K. Jew, Stephen Whitfield, Andrew J. Dougill, David D. Mkwambisi and Peter Steward

Quantitative micro-scale flood risk assessment in a section of the Trotuș River, Romania

Roxana Țîncu, José Luis Zêzere, Iulia Crăciun, Gabriel Lazăr and Iuliana Lazăr

Environmental protection or subversion in mining? Planning challenges, perspectives and actors at the largest gold deposit in Europe

Lucrina Ştefănescu and Filip Alexandrescu

Support tools for land use policies based on high resolution regional air quality modelling

Nicolae Ajtai, Horatiu Stefanie, Camelia Botezan, Alexandru Ozunu, Andrei Radovici, Rodica Dumitrache, Amalia Iriza-Burcă, Andrei Diamandi and Marcus Hirtl

Trends of soil degradation: Does the socio-economic status of land owners and land users matter?

Petr Sklenicka, Jan Zouhar, Kristina Janeckova Molnarova, Josef Vlasak, Blanka Kottova, Peggy Petrzelka, Michal Gebhart and Alena Walmsley

Public support effect on natural disaster management: A case study of ice storms in forests in Slovenia

İlkay Unay-Gailhard and Štefan Bojnec

Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon: Willingness to move, reasons to stay

Midas Baert, Matthieu Kervyn, Armand Dongmo Kagou, Christian Suh Guedjeo, Liesbet Vranken and Kewan Mertens

Flood risk and imprudence of planning in Extremadura, Spain

Victor Jiménez Barrado, Antonio-José Campesino, Voltaire Alvarado, Rodrigo Hidalgo and Axel Borsdorf

Does social capital matter in climate change adaptation? A lesson from agricultural sector in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Endah Saptutyningsih, Diswandi Diswandi and Wanggi Jaung

Switzerland’s transition from flood defence to flood-adapted land use–A policy coordination perspective

Lukas Löschner and Ralf Nordbeck

Sustainable agricultural practices, environmental risk mitigation and livelihood improvements: Empirical evidence from Northern Ethiopia

Woldegebrial Zeweld, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Girmay Tesfay, Hossein Azadi and Stijn Speelman

Analysis of territorial compatibility for Seveso-type sites using different risk assessment methods and GIS technique

Zoltán Török, Ruxandra-Mălina Petrescu-Mag, Alexandru Mereuță, Cristian Valeriu Maloș, Viorel-Ilie Arghiuș and Alexandru Ozunu

Mitigating environmental risks: Modeling the interaction of water quality parameters and land use cover

Mohsen Mirzaei, Ali Jafari, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Hossein Azadi, Sharif Joorabian Shooshtari, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Kindeya Gebrehiwot and Frank Witlox

Determinants of climate change adaptation strategies and its impact on the net farm income of rice farmers in south-west Nigeria

T.O. Ojo and L.J.S. Baiyegunhi

Scenario farmland protection zoning based on production potential: A case study in China

Yilun Liu, Luo Liu, A-Xing Zhu, Chunhua Lao, Guohua Hu and Yueming Hu

Incentivizing sustainable rangeland practices and policies in Colombia’s Orinoco region

Fernando Carriazo, Ricardo Labarta and Francisco J. Escobedo

Barriers and requirements to climate change adaptation of mountainous rural communities in developing countries: The case of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China

Weijun Wang, Xueyan Zhao, Jianjun Cao, Hua Li and Qin Zhang

A holistic approach to land system dynamics – The Monfurado case in Alentejo, Portugal

Catarina Esgalhado, Helena Guimarães, Marta Debolini, Nuno Guiomar, Sylvie Lardon and Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira

Why should landowners in protected areas be compensated? A theoretical framework based on value capture

Jiayu Wu, Gefei Wu, Xinyu Kong, Yiling Luo and Xiaobin Zhang

Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Jennifer A. Devine, Nathan Currit, Yunuen Reygadas, Louise I. Liller and Gabrielle Allen

An agent-based learning-embedded model (ABM-learning) for urban land use planning: A case study of residential land growth simulation in Shenzhen, China

Feixue Li, Zhifeng Li, Honghua Chen, Zhenjie Chen and Manchun Li

Environmental discounting behaviour of smallholder farmers in Chibombo District, Central Zambia

Fiona Chisanga Mubanga and Bridget Bwalya Umar

How land transfer marketization influence on green total factor productivity from the approach of industrial structure? Evidence from China

Xin-hai Lu, Xu Jiang and Meng-qi Gong

Growing struggle over rising demand: How land use change and complex farmer-grazier conflicts impact grazing management in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

Tobias Feldt, Hanna Karg, Ibrahima Kadaouré, Leon Bessert and Eva Schlecht

Primary causes of total hamlet abandonment for different types of hamlets in remote mountain areas of China: A case study of Shouning County, Fujian Province

Chengchao Wang, Bidan Gao, Zudeng Weng and Ying Tian

Is high-tech zone a policy trap or a growth drive? Insights from the perspective of urban land use efficiency

Xinhai Lu, Danling Chen, Bing Kuang, Chaozheng Zhang and Chen Cheng

An analytical model proposal to design urban open spaces in balance with climate: A case study of Gaziantep

Murat Yucekaya and Cengiz Uslu

Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of payment for ecosystem service programs in Argentina

Mauricio M. Núñez-Regueiro, Josh Hiller, Lyn C. Branch, Cristina Núñez Godoy, Sharmin Siddiqui, José Volante and José R. Soto

Dairy sheep farms in semi-arid rangelands: A carbon footprint dilemma between intensification and land-based grazing

M. Escribano, A. Elghannam and F.J. Mesias

Chinese contractor involvement in wildlife protection in Africa: Case study of Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway Project, Kenya

Feng Jiang

Urban flood resilience, a discursive-institutional analysis of planning practices in the Metropolitan City of Milan

Corinne Vitale, Sander Meijerink, Francesco Domenico Moccia and Peter Ache

Assessing the relationship between land tenure issues and land cover changes around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kenya

Alina Schürmann, Janina Kleemann, Christine Fürst and Mike Teucher

Fragmentation of land ownership in Slovakia: Evolution, context, analysis and possible solutions

Zlatica Muchová and Vladimír Raškovič

Tourism-driven rural spatial restructuring in the metropolitan fringe: An empirical observation

Chunliu Gao and Li Cheng

Upzoning and value capture: How U.S. local governments use land use regulation power to create and capture value from real estate developments

Minjee Kim

How and why large scale agricultural land investments do not create long-term employment benefits: A critique of the ‘state’ of labour regulations in Ghana

Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong

Farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Underlying and contributory causes of an announced development

P. Castro, R. Pedroso, S. Lautenbach and R. Vicens

Accounting for diverse risk attitudes in measures of risk perceptions: A case study of climate change risk for small-scale citrus farmers in Indonesia

Abdul Muis Hasibuan, Daniel Gregg and Randy Stringer

Legal aspects of synchronising data on real property location in polish cadastre and land and mortgage register

Anna Przewięźlikowska

“Community developed and farmer delivered.” An analysis of the spatial and relational proximities of the Alternative Land Use Services program in Ontario

F. Ouellet, P. Mundler, J. Dupras and J. Ruiz

Risk communication, women’s participation and flood mitigation in Vietnam: An experimental study

Phung Thanh Binh, Xueqin Zhu, Rolf A. Groeneveld and Ekko van Ierland

Factors influencing the use of adaptation strategies to climate change in paddy lands of Kamfiruz, Iran

Mehdi Esfandiari, Hamid R. Mirzaei Khalilabad, Hossien Mehrabi Boshrabadi and Mohmmad R. Zare Mehrjerdi

Co-ownership shares in condominium – A comparative analysis for selected civil law jurisdictions

Volkan Çağdaş, Jesper M. Paasch, Jenny Paulsson, Hendrik Ploeger and Abdullah Kara

The discrimination of adopters and non-adopters of conservation agricultural initiatives in northwest Iran: Attitudinal, soil testing, and topographical modules

Bijan Abadi, Arash Yadollahi, Ahmad Bybordi and Mehdi Rahmati

A country scale analysis revealed effective forest policy affecting forest cover changes in Cambodia

Tetsuji Ota, Pichdara Lonn and Nobuya Mizoue

Real estate supports rapid development of China's urbanization

Zhaoyang Cai, Qing Liu and Shixiong Cao

Drivers of informal settlements at the peri-urban areas of Woldia: Assessment on the demographic and socio-economic trigger factors

Fentaw Baye, Fisseha Wegayehu and Solomon Mulugeta

Effects of agricultural land consolidation on soil conservation service in the Hilly Region of Southeast China – Implications for land management

Lina Zhong, Jun Wang, Xiao Zhang, Lingxiao Ying and Chuxin Zhu

Population trends and desertification risk in a Mediterranean region, 1861-2017

Federico Benassi, Sirio Cividino, Pavel Cudlin, Ahmed Alhuseen, Giuseppe Ricciardo Lamonica and Luca Salvati

The factors influencing the profitability of leased land on dairy farms in Ireland

Tracy Bradfield, Robert Butler, Emma J. Dillon and Thia Hennessy

Implications of land use transitions and climate change on local flooding in urban areas: An assessment of 42 Indian cities

Vidhee Avashia and Amit Garg

Landscape Aesthetics and Maintenance Perceptions: Assessing the Relationship between Homeowners’ Visual Attention and Landscape Care Knowledge

Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Gail Hansen and Taylor Clem

What is the most suitable methodological approach to demarcate peri-urban areas? A systematic review of the literature

Md. Golam Mortoja, Tan Yigitcanlar and Severine Mayere

The impact of anti-corruption measures on land supply and the associated implications: The case of China

Renjie Zhao, Jie Chen, Chen Feng and Shihu Zhong

Farmers’ perceptions and management of risk in rice/shrimp farming systems in South-West Coastal Bangladesh

Jahangir Kabir, Rob Cramb, Mohammad Alauddin, Donald S. Gaydon and Christian H. Roth

Reducing or creating poverty? Analyzing livelihood impacts of forest carbon projects with evidence from India

Ashish Aggarwal and Dan Brockington

Migration, socioeconomic transformation, and land-use change in Mexico’s Mixteca Alta: Lessons for forest transition theory

Matthew Lorenzen, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Rosario Ramírez-Santiago and Gustavo G. Garza

Resisting, frustrating or embracing the urban agenda: Chieftaincies in Southern Africa examined constitutionally and statutorily

Innocent Chirisa, Abraham R. Matamanda and Patience Mazanhi

Adoption and diffusion of improved technologies and production practices in agriculture: Insights from a donor-led intervention in Nepal

Anjani Kumar, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Ganesh Thapa, Naveen Adhikari, Sunil Saroj, Madhab Karkee and P.K. Joshi

Governance of ecosystem services trade-offs in peri-urban landscapes

Marcin Spyra, Daniele La Rosa, Ingo Zasada, Marta Sylla and Anton Shkaruba

How can contemporary innovation districts be classified? A systematic review of the literature

Tan Yigitcanlar, Rosemary Adu-McVie and Isil Erol

Industrial land use planning and the growth of knowledge industry: Location pattern of knowledge-intensive services and their determinants in the Seoul metropolitan area

Jongpyo Lee and Sanghoon Jung

The uncomfortable truth about land disputes in Bangladesh: Insights from a household survey

Ashikur Rahman and Rafi Hossain

Exploring the influence of urban form on land-use efficiency from a spatiotemporal heterogeneity perspective: Evidence from 336 Chinese cities

Sanwei He, Shan Yu, Guangdong Li and Junfeng Zhang

New urban planning challenges under emerging autonomous mobility: evaluating backcasting scenarios and policies through an expert survey

Soledad Nogués, Esther González-González and Rubén Cordera

Monitoring the effects of land consolidation on the ecological environmental quality based on remote sensing: A case study of Chaohu Lake Basin, China

Beibei Guo, Yelin Fang, Xiaobin Jin and Yinkang Zhou

Assessing the financial contribution and carbon emission pattern of provisioning ecosystem services in Siwalik forests in Nepal: Valuation from the perspectives of disaggregated users

Ram Prasad Acharya, Tek Maraseni and Geoff Cockfield

A multi-criteria model for land valuation in the land consolidation

Ahmet Tezcan, Kenan Büyüktaş and Şerife Tülin Akkaya Aslan

Transfer of development rights, farmland preservation, and economic growth: a case study of Chongqing’s land quotas trading program

Bo Wang, Fan Li, Shuyi Feng and Tong Shen

Zoning plan-based legal confiscation without expropriation in Turkey in light of ECHR decisions

Yakup Emre Coruhlu, Bayram Uzun and Okan Yildiz

Impact of farmer self-identity and attitudes on participation in agri-environment schemes

Paula Cullen, Mary Ryan, O’Donoghue, Cathal, Stephen Hynes, Daire Ó hUallacháin and Helen Sheridan

The impacts of population and agglomeration development on land use intensity: New evidence behind urbanization in China

Feng Xu, Zhanqi Wang, Guangqing Chi and Zhexi Zhang

Welfare impacts of climate-smart agriculture in Ghana: Does row planting and drought-tolerant maize varieties matter?

Edward Martey, Prince Maxwell Etwire and Tahirou Abdoulaye

Special issue: Environmental risk mitigation for sustainable land use development

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

Conversion of agricultural and forest land to other purposes in the context of land protection: Evidence from Polish experience

Krystyna Kurowska, Hubert Kryszk, Renata Marks-Bielska, Monika Mika and Przemysław Leń

Livelihood resilience of riverine island dwellers in the face of natural disasters: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Min Wu, GM Monirul Alam and Roger C Shouse