Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 80, issue C, 2019

Build a people-oriented urbanization: China’s new-type urbanization dream and Anhui model pp. 1-9

Mingxing Chen, Yinghua Gong, Dadao Lu and Chao Ye

A gilded trap in Dominican rice farming pp. 10-20

Michael Cox, Frederick Payton and Leoncio Pimentel

Revealing the determinants of wheat yields in the Siberian breadbasket of Russia with Bayesian networks pp. 21-31

Alexander Prishchepov, Elena Ponkina, Zhanli Sun and Daniel Müller

Passive farming and land development: A real options approach pp. 32-46

Luca Di Corato and Mark Brady

Urban development versus wetland loss in a coastal Latin American city: Lessons for sustainable land use planning pp. 47-56

Carolina Rojas, Juan Munizaga, Octavio Rojas, Carolina Martínez and Joan Pino

Spatiotemporal dynamics of soybean crop in the Matopiba region, Brazil (1990–2015) pp. 57-67

Mayara Lucyanne Santos de Araújo, Edson Eyji Sano, Édson Luis Bolfe, Jessflan Rafael Nascimento Santos, Juliana Sales dos Santos and Fabrício Brito Silva

Responsive environments: An outline of a method for determining context sensitive planning interventions to enhance health and wellbeing pp. 68-78

Mick Lennon, Owen Douglas and Mark Scott

Local regulatory responses during a regional housing shortage: An analysis of rezonings in Silicon Valley pp. 79-87

C.J. Gabbe

Impact of an urban growth boundary across the entire house price spectrum: The two-stage quantile spatial regression approach pp. 88-94

Shishir Mathur

Quantifying and understanding land cover changes by large and small oil palm expansion regimes in the Peruvian Amazon pp. 95-106

Emmalina A. Glinskis and Víctor H. Gutiérrez-Vélez

Identifying livelihood strategies and transitions in rural China: Is land holding an obstacle? pp. 107-117

Jian Zhang, Ashok K. Mishra and Peixin Zhu

Application of LADM for disaster prone areas and communities pp. 118-126

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

The failure of agri-environment measures to promote and conserve grassland biodiversity in Slovenia pp. 127-134

Mitja Kaligarič, Jure Čuš, Sonja Škornik and Danijel Ivajnšič

Analysis of the non-productive land use in Lithuania pp. 135-141

Vilma Šalkauskienė, Daiva Gudritienė and Edita Abalikštienė

Impact of farmland characteristics on grain costs and benefits in the North China Plain pp. 142-149

Qian Wang, Junjie Qiu and Jin Yu

Factors influencing technological practices in the Brazilian agrarian reform pp. 150-162

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

Exploring the adoption of precision agricultural technologies: A cross regional study of EU farmers pp. 163-174

A.P. Barnes, I. Soto, V. Eory, B. Beck, A. Balafoutis, B. Sánchez, J. Vangeyte, S. Fountas, T. van der Wal and M. Gómez-Barbero

Who drives the formation and adoption of the "increasing versus decreasing balance policy"?—Evidence from a policy process analysis pp. 175-184

Yanfen Huang, Chao Zhang and Wei Liu

The colour of maize: Visions of green growth and farmers perceptions in northern Laos pp. 185-194

Maarit Helena Kallio, Nicholas John Hogarth, Moira Moeliono, Maria Brockhaus, Robert Cole, Indah Waty Bong and Grace Yee Wong

Critical junctures and path dependence in urban planning and housing policy: A review of greenbelts and New Towns in Korea’s Seoul metropolitan area pp. 195-204

Chang Gyu Choi, Sugie Lee, Heungsoon Kim and Eun Yeong Seong

Evaluating the effectiveness of land use plans in containing urban expansion: An integrated view pp. 205-213

Xiaoqiang Shen, Xiangdong Wang, Zhou Zhang, Zhangwei Lu and Tiangui Lv

Understanding barriers and opportunities for adoption of conservation practices on rented farmland in the US pp. 214-223

Pranay Ranjan, Chloe B. Wardropper, Francis R. Eanes, Sheila M.W. Reddy, Seth C. Harden, Yuta J. Masuda and Linda S. Prokopy

Development of China’s nature reserves over the past 60 years: An overview pp. 224-232

Yinzhou Huang, Jiao Fu, Wenrui Wang and Jing Li

A tale of two neighborhoods: Toward a new typology of land rights pp. 233-245

Harel Nachmany and Ravit Hananel

Characterizing outdoor recreation user groups: A typology of peri-urban recreationists in the Kromme Rijn area, the Netherlands pp. 246-258

Franziska Komossa, Emma H. van der Zanden and Peter H. Verburg

Formalizing artisanal mining ‘spaces’ in rural sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Niger pp. 259-268

Gavin Hilson, Halima Goumandakoye and Penda Diallo

Public policies for low carbon emission agriculture foster beef cattle production in southern Brazil pp. 269-273

Newton Borges da Costa , Tiago Celso Baldissera, Cassiano Eduardo Pinto, Fabio Cervo Garagorry, Aníbal de Moraes and Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

Decreasing uncertainties and reversing paradigms on the economic performance of agroforestry systems in Brazil pp. 274-286

Gabrielli do Carmo Martinelli, Madalena Maria Schlindwein, Milton Parron Padovan and Régio Marcio Toesca Gimenes

Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes pp. 332-344

Catharina J.E. Schulp, Christian Levers, Tobias Kuemmerle, Koen F. Tieskens and Peter H. Verburg

Relationship between land tenure and soil quality: Evidence from China’s soil fertility analysis pp. 345-361

Kaiyu Lyu, Kevin Chen and Huaizhi Zhang

Policy design to support cross-boundary land management: The example of the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership pp. 362-369

Laren A. Cyphers and Courtney A. Schultz

Data compatibility between the Land and Building Cadaster (LBC) and the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) in the context of area-based payments: A case study in the Polish Region of Warmia and Mazury pp. 370-379

Katarzyna Kocur-Bera

Agricultural land conversion: Impacts of economic and natural risk factors in a coastal area pp. 380-390

Sheng Li, Denis Nadolnyak and Valentina Hartarska

How ecological networks could benefit from landscape graphs: A response to the paper by Spartaco Gippoliti and Corrado Battisti pp. 391-394

Jean-Christophe Foltête

Are goats the new elephants in the room? Changing land-use strategies in Greater Mara, Kenya pp. 395-399

Mette Løvschal, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson and Irene Amoke

Non-material matters: A call for integrated assessment of benefits from ecosystems in research and policy pp. 400-402

Alison Adams and Joshua Morse

Crafting land restitution in Colombia: Optimizing a legal, social and institutional framework pp. 403-405

Jon D. Unruh

Transitional path to the adoption of nature-based solutions pp. 406-409

Clive Davies and Raffaele Lafortezza

Land use policy in headwater catchments pp. 410-414

Josef Křeček and Martin Haigh

Possibilities and limits in the management of mountain watersheds: Lessons from the Maya civilization pp. 415-423

Eleni Dimelisová

Climate change and water loss in the Kinneret drainage basin pp. 424-429

Moshe Gophen

Effect of land use change on ecosystem services in Lake Balaton Catchment pp. 430-438

Ádám Kertész, Loránd Attila Nagy and Boglárka Balázs

Impacts of land use policy on the recovery of mountain catchments from acidification pp. 439-448

Josef Křeček, Ladislav Palán and Evžen Stuchlík

Slow science: Benefits for the management of headwater catchments pp. 449-455

Martin Haigh

From water footprint to climate change adaptation: Capacity development with teenagers to save water pp. 456-463

Christin Haida, Ashok K. Chapagain, Wolfgang Rauch, Maximilian Riede and Katrin Schneider

Managing protection in torrential mountain watersheds: A new conceptual integrated decision-aiding framework pp. 464-479

Simon Carladous, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert and Olivier Marco

Volume 79, issue C, 2018

Dwarf cashew crop expansion in the Brazilian semiarid region: Assessing policy alternatives in Pio IX, Piauí pp. 1-9

Paulo Gustavo de Alencar, Giovana Mira de Espindola and Eduilson Lívio Neves da Costa Carneiro

Forestland and rural household livelihoods in the North Central Provinces, Vietnam pp. 10-19

Thanh Nguyen and Tuyen Tran

Co-creating value in urban public policy contexts: A different approach pp. 20-29

Federica Fotino, Mario Calabrese and Mattia Lettieri

Network approach to constructing theory of participation in spatial planning pp. 30-47

Nataša Lovrić and Marko Lovrić

The 1999 Tanzania land acts as a community lands approach: A review of research into their implementation pp. 48-56

Robin Biddulph

The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina pp. 57-67

M. Piquer-Rodríguez, M. Baumann, V. Butsic, H.I. Gasparri, G. Gavier-Pizarro, J.N. Volante, Daniel Müller and T. Kuemmerle

Forest plantations’ investments in social services and local infrastructure: an analysis of private, FSC certified and state-owned, non-certified plantations in rural Tanzania pp. 68-83

Mohammed B. Degnet, Edwin van der Werf, Verina Ingram and Justus Wesseler

Gender determines scientists’ sustainability assessments of food-securing upgrading strategies pp. 84-93

F. Graef and G. Uckert

Net value of grassland ecosystem services in mainland China pp. 94-101

Xinyi Zheng, Junze Zhang and Shixiong Cao

Exploring the feasibility of setting up community allotments on abandoned agricultural land: A place, people, policy approach pp. 102-115

Jean Marc Pace Ricci and Elisabeth Conrad

Large-scale simultaneous market segment definition and mass appraisal using decision tree learning for fiscal purposes pp. 116-122

Fabián Reyes-Bueno, Juan Manuel García-Samaniego and Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez

Communal governance, equity and payment for ecosystem services pp. 123-136

Tanya Hayes and Felipe Murtinho

A classification to align social-ecological land systems research with policy in Europe pp. 137-145

Klara J. Winkler, Murray W. Scown and Kimberly A. Nicholas

A comparative assessment of land suitability evaluation methods for agricultural land use planning at village level pp. 146-163

Duraisamy Vasu, Rajeev Srivastava, Nitin G. Patil, Pramod Tiwary, Padikkal Chandran and Surendra Kumar Singh

Climate change adaptation in Europe and the United States: A comparative approach to urban green spaces in Bilbao and New York City pp. 164-173

Francisco García Sánchez, William D. Solecki and Cecilia Ribalaygua Batalla

Overlapping land allocations reduce deforestation in Peru pp. 174-178

Christa M. Anderson, Gregory P. Asner, William Llactayo and Eric F. Lambin

Lands changing hands: Experiences of succession and farm (knowledge) acquisition among first-generation, multigenerational, and aspiring farmers pp. 179-189

Michael Carolan

Looking at retail planning policy through a sustainability lens: Evidence from policy discourse in Finland pp. 190-198

Laura Yrjänä, Anahita Rashidfarokhi, Saija Toivonen and Kauko Viitanen

Livelihood exposure to climatic stresses in the north-eastern floodplains of Bangladesh pp. 199-214

H.M. Tuihedur Rahman, Md. Ekhlas Mia, James D. Ford, Brian E. Robinson and Gordon M. Hickey

Impact of access to capital and abiotic stress on production efficiency: Evidence from rice farming in Cambodia pp. 215-222

Ashok K. Mishra, Subir Bairagi, Maria Lourdes Velasco and Samarendu Mohanty

Fair to the cow or fair to the farmer? The preferences of conventional milk buyers for ethical attributes of milk pp. 223-239

Nonka Markova-Nenova and Frank Wätzold

Evaluating the cooperative and family farm programs in China: A rural governance perspective pp. 240-250

Mingrui Shen and Jianfa Shen

Innovation in sustainable development: an investigation of the EU context using 2030 agenda indicators pp. 251-262

Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska, Angelika Kędzierska-Szczepaniak, Krzysztof Szczepaniak, Katarzyna Cheba, Waldemar Gajda and Giuseppe Ioppolo

Challenges to access and safeguard mineral resources for society: A case study of kaolin in Portugal pp. 263-284

C. Lopes, V. Lisboa, J. Carvalho, A. Mateus and L. Martins

Land fragmentation and other determinants of agricultural farm productivity: The case of Estonia pp. 285-292

J. Looga, E. Jürgenson, K. Sikk, E. Matveev and S. Maasikamäe

Public funding for public goods: A post-Brexit perspective on principles for agricultural policy pp. 293-300

Ian Bateman and Ben Balmford

Farmers’ risk perception, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in rural Pakistan pp. 301-309

Shah Fahad and Jianling Wang

Methodological proposal to classify and delineate natural protected areas. Study case: Region of Extremadura, Spain pp. 310-319

Francisco Javier Jaraíz-Cabanillas, Julián Mora-Aliseda, Jin Su Jeong and Jacinto Garrido-Velarde

Estimating the demand and supply of conservation banking markets in the United States pp. 320-325

Jagdish Poudel, Daowei Zhang and Benjamin Simon

Soy expansion into the agricultural frontiers of the Brazilian Amazon: The agribusiness economy and its social and environmental conflicts pp. 326-338

Sérgio Sauer

What drives land take and urban land expansion? A systematic review pp. 339-349

Alice Colsaet, Yann Laurans and Harold Levrel

Farmland use intensity changes in response to rural transition in Zhejiang province, China pp. 350-361

Heyuan You, Xiaowei Hu and Yizhou Wu

Rediscovering Chinese cities through the lens of land-use patterns pp. 362-374

Wei Lang, Ying Long and Tingting Chen

Let the cows graze: An empirical investigation on the trade-off between efficiency and farm animal welfare in milk production pp. 375-385

Hinrich D. Schulte, Linda Armbrecht, Rasmus Bürger, Matthias Gauly, Oliver Musshoff and Silke Hüttel

Why do we not pick the low-hanging fruit? Governing adaptation to climate change and resilience in Tyrolean mountain agriculture pp. 386-396

Heidelinde Grüneis, Marianne Penker, Karl-Michael Höferl, Markus Schermer and Patrick Scherhaufer

A proposal for engaging a stakeholder panel in planning post-mining land uses in Australia’s coal-rich tropical savannahs pp. 397-406

Jo-Anne Everingham, John Rolfe, Alex Mark Lechner, Susan Kinnear and Delwar Akbar

Short-term rentals in small cities in Oregon: Impacts and regulations pp. 407-423

Sadie DiNatale, Rebecca Lewis and Robert Parker

Adaptation to climate change via adjustment in land leasing: Evidence from dryland wheat farms in the U.S. Pacific Northwest pp. 424-432

Hongliang Zhang, Jianhong E. Mu and Bruce McCarl

Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya pp. 433-446

Johanna Jacobi, Stellah Mukhovi, Aymara Llanque, Horacio Augstburger, Fabian Käser, Claudia Pozo, Mariah Ngutu Peter, José Manuel Freddy Delgado, Boniface P. Kiteme, Stephan Rist and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

China’s ambitious ecological red lines pp. 447-451

Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yang and Jon Barnett

Value capture in protected areas from the perspective of common-pool resource governance: A case study of Jiuzhai Valley National Park, China pp. 452-462

Jiayu Wu, Yingjie Hu, Tao Liu and Qingsong He

Smallholder response to environmental change: Impacts of coffee leaf rust in a forest frontier in Mexico pp. 463-474

Vivian Valencia, Luis García-Barrios, Eleanor J. Sterling, Paige West, Amayrani Meza-Jiménez and Shahid Naeem

The quinoa boom in Peru: Will land competition threaten sustainability in one of the cradles of agriculture? pp. 475-480

Noelia S. Bedoya-Perales, Guilherme Pumi, Edson Talamini and Antonio Domingos Padula

An investigation of urban process and mass housing estates development through topographical formations in urban peripheries: A case study of Famagusta, Cyprus pp. 481-495

Bertug Ozarisoy

Tipping points in adaptation to urban flooding under climate change and urban growth: The case of the Dhaka megacity pp. 496-506

Farhana Ahmed, Eddy Moors, M. Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner and Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga

The effect of transport cost on housing affordability: Experiences from the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia pp. 507-519

Yulia Dewita, Barbara T.H. Yen and Matthew Burke

The unknown known – A review of local ecological knowledge in relation to forest biodiversity conservation pp. 520-530

Bettina Joa, Georg Winkel and Eeva Primmer

Brazilian State Forest Institutions: Implementation of forestry goals evaluated by the 3L Model pp. 531-546

Juliana da Motta Bustamante, Mirjana Stevanov, Max Krott and Edson Ferreira de Carvalho

The Polish land administration system supporting good governance pp. 547-555

Anna Klimach, Agnieszka Dawidowicz and Ryszard Źróbek

Conceptualisation and perception of the landscape and its changes in a transboundary area. A case study of the Southern German-French borderland pp. 556-574

Éva Konkoly-Gyuró

A solution for the sunset industry: Adoption of Green Fertiliser Technology amongst Malaysian paddy farmers pp. 575-584

Nadia Adnan, Shahrina Md Nordin and Murad Ali

The asymmetric response of farmers to an expected change in the price of rubber: The roles of sunk costs and path dependency pp. 585-594

Shi Min, Xiaobing Wang, Min Liu and Jikun Huang

Measure of urban-rural transformation in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the new millennium: Population-land-industry perspective pp. 595-608

Yuanyuan Yang, Yansui Liu, Yurui Li and Jintao Li

Do farmers adopt fewer conservation practices on rented land? Evidence from straw retention in China pp. 609-621

Li Gao, Wendong Zhang, Yingdan Mei, Abdoul G. Sam, Yu Song and Shuqin Jin

Using von Thünen rings and service-dominant logic in balancing forest ecosystem services pp. 622-632

Anders Roos, Jeannette Eggers, Cecilia Mark-Herbert and Anders Lindhagen

Public opposition and the neighborhood effect: How social interaction explains protest against a large infrastructure project pp. 633-640

Tom Coppens, Wouter Van Dooren and Peter Thijssen

Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon pp. 641-649

Rémi Jaligot, Armel Kemajou and Jérôme Chenal

Understanding environmental, health and economic activity interactions following transition of ownership in gold mining areas in Tanzania: A case of private to public pp. 650-658

Sophia Rhee, Elias Charles Nyanza, Madison Condon, Joshua Fisher, Theresia Maduka and Anja Tolonen

Does regional VRIO model help policy-makers to assess the resources of a region? A stakeholder perception approach pp. 659-670

João Lopes, Luís Farinha, Joao Ferreira and Paulo Silveira

Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda pp. 671-683

Kira A. Sullivan-Wiley and Anne G. Short Gianotti

Rethinking sustainable land management planning: Understanding the social and economic drivers of farmer decision-making in Africa pp. 684-694

Lucy Emerton and Katherine A. Snyder

Shifting sands of planning in Israel pp. 695-706

Eran Feitelson

Agriculture, nutrition and economics through training: A virtuous cycle in rural Ethiopia pp. 707-716

Elena Urquia-Grande, Elisa I. Cano-Montero, Raquel Pérez-Estébanez and Julián Chamizo-González

Multiple ecosystem services of monoculture and mixed plantations: A case study of the Huitong experimental forest of Southern China pp. 717-724

Erfu Dai, Jianjia Zhu, Xiaoli Wang and Weimin Xi

The effects of urban expansion on green infrastructure along an extended latitudinal gradient (23°S–45°S) in Chile over the last thirty years pp. 725-733

Ángela Hernández-Moreno and Sonia Reyes-Paecke

Does place quality matter for innovation districts? Determining the essential place characteristics from Brisbane’s knowledge precincts pp. 734-747

Niusha Esmaeilpoorarabi, Tan Yigitcanlar, Mirko Guaralda and Md. Kamruzzaman

Impacts of large-scale land holdings on Fulani pastoralists’ in the Agogo Traditional Area of Ghana pp. 748-758

Kaderi Noagah Bukari and Elias Danyi Kuusaana

Considering the level of socio-economic development of rural areas in the context of infrastructural and traditional consolidations in Poland pp. 759-773

Małgorzata Dudzińska, Stanisław Bacior and Barbara Prus

Educational infrastructure and its impact on urban land use change in a peri-urban area: a cellular-automata based approach pp. 774-788

Pedro Bueno Rocha Campos, Cláudia Maria de Almeida and Alfredo Pereira de Queiroz

Farmland Use Transitions After the CAP Greening: a Preliminary Analysis Using Markov Chains Approach pp. 789-800

Danilo Bertoni, Giacomo Aletti, Giulia Ferrandi, Alessandra Micheletti, Daniele Cavicchioli and Roberto Pretolani

Experiences and emotions among private forest owners versus public interests: Why ownership matters pp. 801-811

Sabina Bergstén, Olof Stjernström and Örjan Pettersson

Wine cooperatives as a form of social entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence about their impact on society pp. 812-821

Vítor Figueiredo and Mário Franco

Can PES and REDD+ match Willingness To Accept payments in contracts for reforestation and avoided forest degradation? The case of farmers in upland Bac Kan, Vietnam pp. 822-833

Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Ida Theilade, Henrik Meilby, Nguyen Hai Nui and Nguyen Thanh Lam

Critical assessment of implementation of the Forest Rights Act of India pp. 834-844

Jocelyn I. Lee and Steven A. Wolf

A theorem on dynamic disequilibrium: Debunking path dependence and equilibrium via China’s urban property (1949–1998) pp. 863-875

Peter Ho

Institutional function and urbanization in Bangladesh: How peri-urban communities respond to changing environments pp. 932-941

Sharlene L. Gomes and Leon M. Hermans

Reprint of “Assessing evictions and expropriations in China: Efficiency, credibility and rights” pp. 952-959

Eva Pils

Integrated Forest Governance in Europe: An introduction to the special issue on forest policy integration and integrated forest management pp. 960-967

Metodi Sotirov and Bas Arts