Land Use Policy

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Volume 89, issue C, 2019

Stakeholder motivation for the conservation of sacred groves in south India: An analysis of environmental perceptions of rural and urban neighbourhood communities

U. Prashanth Ballullaya, K.S. Reshmi, T.P. Rajesh, K. Manoj, Margaret Lowman and Palatty Allesh Sinu

Economic valuation of street-level urban greening: A case study from an evolving mixed-use area in Berlin

Erik Fruth, Michele Kvistad, Joe Marshall, Lena Pfeifer, Luisa Rau, Julian Sagebiel, Daniel Soto, John Tarpey, Jessica Weir and Bradyn Winiarski

Gaining voter support for watershed protection

Melissa M. Kreye, Damian Adams and Jeffrey D. Kline

Land use and decentralized government: A strategic approach for playing a short-sighted equilibrium

Maria Carmela Aprile, Bruno Chiarini and Elisabetta Marzano

Why would new protected areas be accepted or rejected by the public?: Lessons from an ex-ante evaluation of the new Patagonia Park Network in Chile

Francisco Zorondo-Rodríguez, Marion Díaz, Gabriela Simonetti-Grez and Javier A. Simonetti

The drivers behind nature conservation cost

David Lehrer, Nir Becker and Pua Bar

Bringing community perceptions into sustainable urban drainage systems: The experience of Extremadura, Spain

L.A. Sañudo-Fontaneda and Rafael Robina-Ramírez

Factors associated with family forest landowner enrollment in state preferential forest property tax programs in the United States

Gregory E. Frey, Justin T. Meier, Michael A. Kilgore, Stephanie A. Snyder and Charles R. Blinn

Urban ecological infrastructure: The importance of vegetation cover in the control of floods and landslides in Salvador / Bahia, Brazil

Ricardo A.S. Machado, Anderson G. Oliveira and Rubén C. Lois-González

Power and perception – From paradigms of specialist disciplines and opinions of expert groups to an acceptance for the planning of onshore windfarms in England – Making a case for Social Impact Assessment (SIA)

Tara Muthoora and Thomas B. Fischer

Social capital, land tenure and the adoption of green control techniques by family farms: Evidence from Shandong and Henan Provinces of China

Yang Gao, Bei Liu, Lili Yu, Haoran Yang and Shijiu Yin

Urban agriculture, food security, and development policies in Jakarta: A case study of farming communities at Kalideres – Cengkareng district, West Jakarta

Amanda Jennifer Chandra and Jessica Ann Diehl

Impact of land use and land cover changes on temperature trends over India

Sridhara Nayak and Manabottam Mandal

Towards a National Food Sovereignty Plan: Application of a new Decision Support System for food planning and governance

Giordano Stella, Roberto Coli, Angela Maurizi, Franco Famiani, Cesare Castellini, Mariano Pauselli, Giacomo Tosti and MariaElena Menconi

Land marketization, fiscal decentralization, and the dynamics of urban land prices in transitional China

Feng Yuan, Yehua Dennis Wei and Weiye Xiao

Private organizations, public data: Land trust choices about mapping conservation easements

Adena R. Rissman, Amy W. Morris, Alexey Kalinin, Patrice A. Kohl, Dominic Parker and Owen Selles

Influence of livelihood capital on adaptation strategies: Evidence from rural households in Wushen Banner, China

Foyuan Kuang, Jianjun Jin, Rui He, Xinyu Wan and Jing Ning

Structural changes in the development of China’s farmland consolidation in 1998–2017: Changing ideas and future framework

Huaizhi Tang, Wenju Yun, Wenping Liu and Lingling Sang

Neoliberal conservation in REDD+: The roles of market power and incentive designs

Jichuan Sheng, Qiu Hong and Xiao Han

Conversion of forestlands to blueberries: Assessing implications for habitat quality in Alabaha river watershed in Southeastern Georgia, United States

Suraj Upadhaya and Puneet Dwivedi

Does Internet use help reduce rural cropland abandonment? Evidence from China

Xin Deng, Dingde Xu, Miao Zeng and Yanbin Qi

Modelling stakeholders’ preferences to pinpoint conflicts in the planning of transboundary protected areas

Mónica de Castro-Pardo, Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez, José María Martín-Martín and João C. Azevedo

Exploring urban green spaces in China: Spatial patterns, driving factors and policy implications

Ze Xu, Zhengfeng Zhang and Chu Li

A behavioral analysis of farmers during land reallocation processes of land consolidation in China: Insights from Guangxi and Shandong provinces

Xiaobin Zhang, Walter Timo de Vries, Guan Li, Yanmei Ye, Hongyu Zheng and Mengran Wang

Youth’s access to agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa: A missing link in the global land grabbing discourse

Eric Mensah Kumeh and Godfrey Omulo

Spatial spillover effect on land conveyance fee—A multi-scheme investigation in Wuhan agglomeration

Chen Zeng

Regeneration programmes: Enforcing the right to housing or fostering gentrification? The example of Bankside in London

Francesca Leccis

The role of traditional management practices in shaping a diverse habitat mosaic in a mountain region of Northern Spain

Sara Guadilla-Sáez, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Victoria Reyes-García

The impacts of social-ecological system change on human-nature connectedness: A case study from Transylvania, Romania

Ágnes Balázsi, Maraja Riechers, Tibor Hartel, Julia Leventon and Joern Fischer

Identification of areas exposed to land use conflict with the use of multiple-criteria decision-making methods

Iwona Cieślak

Environmental consequences and the role of illegal waste dumps and their impact on land degradation

Magdalena Daria Vaverková, Alžbeta Maxianová, Jan Winkler, Dana Adamcová and Anna Podlasek

Trends and driving forces of China’s virtual land consumption and trade

Xu Tian, Martin Bruckner, Yong Geng and Raimund Bleischwitz

Land fragmentation and household income: First evidence from rural Vietnam

Tuyen Tran and Huong Van Vu

Polycentric systems for wildfire governance in the Western United States

Erin Clover Kelly, Susan Charnley and Jodie T. Pixley

Tourism and sustainable development of rural settlements in protected areas - Example NP Кopaonik (Serbia)

Dušan Ristić, Danijela Vukoičić and Miroljub Milinčić

From “Ribera Plan” to “Diagonal Mar”, passing through 1992 “Vila Olímpica”. How urban renewal took place as urban regeneration in Poblenou district (Barcelona)

Federico Camerin

Multi criteria decision making methods for urban greenway: The case of Aksaray, Turkey

Münevver Özge Balta and Havva Ülgen Yenil

Towards developing a cultural and creative quarter: Culture-led regeneration of the historical district of Rasht Great Bazaar, Iran

Maryam Pourzakarya and Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi

Resilient ecological networks: A comparative approach

Andrea De Montis, Amedeo Ganciu, Matteo Cabras, Antonietta Bardi, Valentina Peddio, Simone Caschili, Pierangelo Massa, Chiara Cocco and Maurizio Mulas

Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time

Rachel Gallagher, Yan Liu and Thomas Sigler

Volume 88, issue C, 2019

Visualizing feedstock siting in biomass production: Tradeoffs between economic and water quality objectives

David E. Gorelick, Latha M. Baskaran and Henriëtte I. Jager

Evaluating social dynamics within technology clusters: A methodological approach to assess social capital

Alessandro Muscio, Antonio Lopolito and Gianluca Nardone

Participatory approaches for disaster risk governance? Exploring participatory mechanisms and mapping to close the communication gap between population living in flood risk areas and authorities in Nova Friburgo Municipality, RJ, Brazil

A. Bustillos Ardaya, M. Evers and L. Ribbe

Economic analysis of land use changes in forests and rangelands: Developing conservation strategies

Komeil Jahanifar, Hamid Amirnejad, Hossein Azadi, Ademola A. Adenle and Jürgen Scheffran

Unraveling local preferences and willingness to pay for different management scenarios: A choice experiment to biosphere reserve management

Nekane Castillo-Eguskitza, David Hoyos, Miren Onaindia and Mikolaj Czajkowski

Floodplain designation and property sale prices in an urban watershed

Noelwah Netusil, Klaus Moeltner and Maya Jarrad

The impact of smallholder farmers’ participation in avocado export markets on the labor market, farm yields, sales prices, and incomes in Kenya

Mulubrhan Amare, Jane Mariara, Remco Oostendorp and Menno Pradhan

The economic value of tourism and recreation across a large protected area network

E.C. Heagney, J.M. Rose, A. Ardeshiri and M. Kovac

Toward a policy mix in conservation governance: A case of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Hideyuki Kubo, Ari Wibawanto and Dicko Rossanda

Location of forest plantations in Mozambique: Gains and losses in water, firewood and land availability

Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, Matleena Kniivilä, Maja Pitiot and Paula Horne

Inadequate risk management and excessive response to flood disaster create unexpected land use changes and potential local conflicts

Ioan Ianoş, Cristian Ionică, Igor Sîrodoev, Anthony Sorensen, Emanuel Bureţa, George Merciu, Mirela Paraschiv and Cristian Tălângă

Farm typology analysis and technology assessment: An application in an arid region of South Asia

Shalander Kumar, Peter Craufurd, Amare Haileslassie, Thiagarajah Ramilan, Abhishek Rathore and Anthony Whitbread

Effects of cover crops on multiple ecosystem services: Ten meta-analyses of data from arable farmland in California and the Mediterranean

Gorm E. Shackelford, Rodd Kelsey and Lynn V. Dicks

Regrowing forests contribution to law compliance and carbon storage in private properties of the Brazilian Amazon

Leticia de Barros Viana Hissa, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar, Rafael Rodrigues Camargo, Leticia Santos de Lima, Florian Gollnow and Tobia Lakes

Livestock dynamics under changing economy and climate in Mongolia

Yecheng Xu, Yaoqi Zhang, Jiquan Chen and Ranjeet John

Impacts of drought-tolerant maize varieties on productivity, risk, and resource use: Evidence from Uganda

Franklin Simtowe, Emily Amondo, Paswel Marenya, Dil Rahut, Kai Sonder and Olaf Erenstein

Soil salinity assessment and coping strategies in the coastal agricultural landscape in Djilor district, Senegal

Sophie Thiam, Grace B. Villamor, Nicholas Kyei-Baffour and François Matty

Constraints and opportunities for mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Insights from the IPBES assessment for Europe and Central Asia

Riccardo Simoncini, Irene Ring, Camilla Sandström, Christian Albert, Ulan Kasymov and Raphael Arlettaz

Public land leasing, public productive spending and economic growth in Chinese cities

Huina Gao

The adoption of ecological fiscal transfers: An empirical analysis

Felipe de Paulo and Pedro Jorge Sobral Camões

On-farm Business Structure Diversification in Greater Copenhagen—Farmers in an urban landscape or entrepreneurs in a rural landscape?

Søren Bech Pilgaard Kristensen, Søren Præstholm, Anne Gravsholt Busck, Lars Winther, Christian Fertner, Jens Peter Vesterager and Henrik Vejre

Semi-natural habitats and Ecological Focus Areas on cereal, beef and dairy farms in Ireland

Julie Larkin, Helen Sheridan, John A. Finn, Hannah Denniston and Daire Ó hUallacháin

Evaluating the effectiveness of land-use zoning for the protection of built heritage in the Bagan Archaeological Zone, Myanmar—A satellite remote-sensing approach

Ben Edwards, Tilman Frasch and Julia Jeyacheya

Dairy farmers' strategies in four European countries before and after abolition of the milk quota

Marija Klopčič, Abele Kuipers, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Aldona Stalgiene, Anita Ule and Karmen Erjavec

The historical basis and future options for native plant-species in the hyper-arid forests of Abu Dhabi

Wafa Al-Yamani, Lesley Kennedy, Steve Green, Peter Kemp and Brent Clothier

Land use optimization tool for sustainable intensification of high-latitude agricultural systems

Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Lauri Jauhiainen, Heikki Laurila, Jaana Sorvali, Eija Honkavaara, Samantha Wittke, Mika Karjalainen and Eetu Puttonen

Technical and social knowledge discontinuities in the multi-objective management of private forests in Finland

Sari Pynnönen, Anna Salomaa, Salla Rantala and Teppo Hujala

Multiple and sequential land use: A national policy for Australia?

James J Walcott

Addressing small-scale forestry informal markets through forest policy revision: A case study in Papua New Guinea

Micah G. Scudder, Jack Baynes, Grahame Applegate and John Herbohn

Taxonomy of urban mixed land use planning

Rewati Raman and Uttam Kumar Roy

Land-use decision support in brownfield redevelopment for urban renewal based on crowdsourced data and a presence-and-background learning (PBL) method

Yilun Liu, A-Xing Zhu, Jingli Wang, Wenkai Li, Guohua Hu and Yueming Hu

The structural and functional evolution of rural homesteads in mountainous areas: A case study of Sujiaying village in Yunnan province, China

Kangchuan Su, Baoqing Hu, Kaifang Shi, Zhongxun Zhang and Qingyuan Yang

A GIS-based decision support system for facilitating participatory urban renewal process

Morteza Omidipoor, Mohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki, Athena Moeinmehr, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki and Soo-Mi Choi

Impact of climate smart agriculture (CSA) through sustainable irrigation management on Resource use efficiency: A sustainable production alternative for cotton

Muhammad Ali Imran, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Ashfaq, Sarfraz Hassan, Richard Culas and Chunbo Ma

Land use efficiency and influencing factors of urban agglomerations in China

Junqing Yu, Kaile Zhou and Shanlin Yang

Wind farms in the Icelandic highlands: Attitudes of local residents and tourism service providers

Rannveig Ólafsdóttir and Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir

A conceptual framework for improving the understanding of large scale land acquisitions

Andrew Chilombo, Janet A. Fisher and Dan van Der Horst

Measuring density and diversity to model travel behavior in Indian context

Deepty Jain and Geetam Tiwari

Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco

Matias Enrique Mastrangelo, Zhanli Sun, Lucas Seghezzo and Daniel Müller

Temporal–spatial characteristics of urban land use efficiency of China’s 35mega cities based on DEA: Decomposing technology and scale efficiency

Xinhua Zhu, Yan Li, Peifeng Zhang, Yigang Wei, Xuyang Zheng and Lingling Xie

The impacts of the eco-environmental policy on grassland degradation and livestock production in Inner Mongolia, China: An empirical analysis based on the simultaneous equation model

Min Liu, Liesbeth Dries, Jikun Huang, Shi Min and Jianjun Tang

The politics of customary land rights transformation in peri-urban Ghana: Powers of exclusion in the era of land commodification

Millicent Awialie Akaateba

Terrorism and land use in agriculture: The case of Boko Haram in Nigeria

Adesoji Adelaja and Justin George

Urban water metabolism information for planning water sensitive city-regions

Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Marguerite A. Renouf, Edward Morgan, Steven J. Kenway and Darryl Low Choy

A company-dominated pattern of land consolidation to solve land fragmentation problem and its effectiveness evaluation: A case study in a hilly region of Guangxi Autonomous Region, Southwest China

Bangbang Zhang, Wenhao Niu, Linyan Ma, Xuyang Zuo, Xiangbin Kong, Haibin Chen, Yifan Zhang, Wei Chen, Minjuan Zhao and Xianli Xia

Socio-cultural roots of rural settlement dispersion in Sichuan Basin: The perspective of Chinese lineage

Weiping Liu, Shida Rastegari Henneberry, Jiupai Ni, Reza Radmehr and Chaofu Wei

Mismatch of morphological and functional polycentricity in Chinese cities: An evidence from land development and functional linkage

Wenze Yue, Tianyu Wang, Yong Liu, Qun Zhang and Xinyue Ye

Relationships between labor migration and cropland abandonment in rural China from the perspective of village types

Dingde Xu, Xin Deng, Kai Huang, Yi Liu, Zhuolin Yong and Shaoquan Liu

Analysis of the filtering process and the ripple effect on the primary and secondary housing market in Warsaw, Poland

Justyna Brzezicka, Jacek Łaszek, Krzysztof Olszewski and Joanna Waszczuk

Changes of traffic network and urban transformation: A case study of Xi’an city, China

Zhaozhao Zeng, Bingjie Song, Xiaodong Zheng and Huan Li

Planning the urban forest: Adding microclimate simulation to the planner’s toolkit

Aaron C. Petri, Bev Wilson and Andrew Koeser

Investigating institutional integration in the contexts of Chinese city-regionalization: Evidence from Shenzhen–Dongguan–Huizhou

Xianchun Zhang and Yi Sun

Forest fire hazard zoning in Mato Grosso State, Brazil

Pedro Henrique Santos Mota, Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha, Nero Lemos Martins de Castro, Gustavo Eduardo Marcatti, Luciano Cavalcante de Jesus França, Bruno Leão Said Schettini, Paulo Henrique Villanova, Hugo Thaner dos Santos and Alexandre Rosa dos Santos

Assessing the possibility of charging for public leasehold renewal in China

De Tong, Zhenguo Wang, Yu Hung Hong and Chengming Liu

Opposition to housing development in a suburban US County: Characteristics, origins, and consequences

Andrew H. Whittemore and Todd K. BenDor

Situational analysis of agricultural land leasing in Uttar Pradesh

Somdatta Mandal, Gunjika Vishwanath Misra, Syed Mansoor Abbas Naqvi and Naveen Kumar

Community participation in tourism development as a tool to foster sustainable land and resource use practices in a national park milieu

Amare Wondirad and Biruk Ewnetu

Farm and land system dynamics in the Mediterranean: Integrating different spatial-temporal scales and management approaches

J. Muñoz-Rojas, T. Pinto-Correia and C. Napoleone

Water crisis, drought, and climate change in the southeast United States

C.A. Craig, S. Feng and S. Gilbertz

Assessing smallholder preferences for incentivised climate-smart agriculture using a discrete choice experiment

Marije Schaafsma, Silvia Ferrini and R. Kerry Turner

Indigenous Peoples’ participation in sustainability standards for extractives

John Meadows, Mark Annandale and Liz Ota

Promotion of degraded land consolidation to rural poverty alleviation in the agro-pastoral transition zone of northern China

Yongsheng Wang and Yuheng Li

Influential factors and classification of cultivated land fragmentation, and implications for future land consolidation: A case study of Jiangsu Province in eastern China

Jing Liu, Xiaobin Jin, Weiyi Xu, Rui Sun, Bo Han, Xuhong Yang, Zhengming Gu, Cuilan Xu, Xueyan Sui and Yinkang Zhou

Study of the effects of applying a new algorithm for the comprehensive programming of the hierarchization of land consolidation and exchange works in Poland

Monika Mika, Przemysław Leń, Grzegorz Oleniacz and Krystyna Kurowska

Legal barriers and enablers for reintroducing tides: An Australian case study in reconverting ponded pasture for climate change mitigation

Justine Bell-James and Catherine E Lovelock

Evolutionary Game Analysis of Fallow Farmland Behaviors of Different Types of Farmers and Local Governments

Hualin Xie and Shengtian Jin

Mapping sugarcane in complex landscapes by integrating multi-temporal Sentinel-2 images and machine learning algorithms

Ming Wang, Zhengjia Liu, Muhammad Hasan Ali Baig, Yongsheng Wang, Yurui Li and Yuanyan Chen

Effects of land use transitions and rural aging on agricultural production in China’s farming area: A perspective from changing labor employing quantity in the planting industry

Liuwen Liao, Hualou Long, Xiaolu Gao and Enpu Ma

Index system to assess implementation of strategic land use plans in China

Bingqing Li, Zhanqi Wang, Ji Chai and Di Zhang

Displaced villagers’ adaptation in concentrated resettlement community: A case study of Nanjing, China

Zhu Qian

From a property tax to a land tax – who wins, who loses?

Peter Wyatt

Identifying spatial mismatches between the supply and demand of ecosystem services to achieve a sustainable management regime in the Ionian Islands (Western Greece)

Roxanne Suzette Lorilla, Stamatis Kalogirou, Konstantinos Poirazidis and George Kefalas

Land use change driven out-migration: Evidence from three flood-prone communities in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Thong Anh Tran

Fertiliser adoption and sustainable rural livelihood improvement in Nigeria

Emmanuel Donkor, Stephen Onakuse, Joe Bogue and Ignacio De Los Rios-Carmenado

The making of smart cities: Are Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Brisbane the best we could build?

Tan Yigitcanlar, Hoon Han, Md. Kamruzzaman, Giuseppe Ioppolo and Jamile Sabatini-Marques

Use of the ANP methodology to prioritize rural development strategies under the LEADER approach in protected areas. The case of Lagodekhi, Georgia

Luis A. Fernandez Portillo, Olexandr Nekhay and Lorenzo Estepa Mohedano

Contrasting land use policies for climate change adaptation: A case study of political and geo-legal realities for Australian coastal locations

O’Donnell, Tayanah