Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 76, issue C, 2018

Impacts of historic climate variability and land use change on winter wheat climatic productivity in the North China Plain during 1980–2010 pp. 1-9

Qiaomin Chen, Yujie Liu, Quansheng Ge and Tao Pan

Analysis of the impact on vegetation caused by abrupt deforestation via orbital sensor in the environmental disaster of Mariana, Brazil pp. 10-20

Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior, Andressa Dias Coutinho, José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro, Mendelson Lima, Muhammad Shakir, Givanildo de Gois and Jerry Adriani Johann

Reaching a socio-ecological tipping point: Overgrazing on the Greek island of Samothraki and the role of European agricultural policies pp. 21-28

Tamara Fetzel, Panos Petridis, Dominik Noll, Simron Jit Singh and Marina Fischer-Kowalski

RETRACTED: Challenges for efficient land use in rice production of northern Iran: The use of modern cultivars among small-scale farmers pp. 29-35

Daryoush Ashoori, Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, Christos A. Damalas and Asghar Bagheri

Effects of awareness on farmers’ compliance with diffuse pollution mitigation measures: A conditional process modelling pp. 36-45

Murat Okumah, Julia Martin-Ortega and Paula Novo

Exploring the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of cash crop cultivation for policy implications pp. 46-57

Jing Li, Zelie Zhang, Xianfeng Jin, Jiaquan Chen, Shaojia Zhang, Zong He, Sheng Li, Zhiming He, Haipeng Zhang and He Xiao

Industrial land policy, firm heterogeneity and firm location choice: Evidence from China pp. 58-67

Dan Zheng and Minjun Shi

Political debates and agricultural policies: Discourse coalitions behind the creation of Brazil’s Pronaf pp. 68-80

Stefano Ghinoi, Valdemar João Wesz Junior and Simone Piras

Recent transformations of land-use and land-cover dynamics across different deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 81-94

Johannes Schielein and Jan Börner

Rural Environmental Registry: An innovative model for land-use and environmental policies pp. 95-102

Iris Roitman, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira, Tamiel Khan Baiocchi Jacobson, Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante, Nívea Jorgia Silva Marcondes, Kátia Cury, Luciana Silva Estevam, Rômulo José da Costa Ribeiro, Vivian Ribeiro, Marcelo C.C. Stabile, Reinaldo José de Miranda Filho and Mário Lúcio Avila

Planning by the rules: A fair chance for the environment in a land-use conflict area pp. 103-112

Guilherme Augusto Carminato Bircol, Marcelo Pereira de Souza, Aurélio Teodoro Fontes, Adriano Garcia Chiarello and Victor Eduardo Lima Ranieri

Can lead farmers reveal the adoption potential of conservation agriculture? The case of Malawi pp. 113-123

Stein Holden, Monica Fisher, Samson P. Katengeza and Christian Thierfelder

Effects of no-tillage on agricultural land values in Brazil pp. 124-129

Tiago Santos Telles, Bastiaan Philip Reydon and Alexandre Gori Maia

Mega freight generators in my backyard: A longitudinal study of environmental justice in warehousing location pp. 130-143

Quan Yuan

Agroforestry development in Europe: Policy issues pp. 144-156

J.J. Santiago-Freijanes, A. Pisanelli, M. Rois-Díaz, J.A. Aldrey-Vázquez, A. Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A. Pantera, A. Vityi, B. Lojka, N. Ferreiro-Domínguez and M.R. Mosquera-Losada

Quality of life in a “high-rise lawless slum”: A study of the “Kowloon Walled City” pp. 157-165

Leung Kwok Prudence Lau, Wai Chung Lawrence Lai and Chi Wing Daniel Ho

Trade-offs between wind energy, recreational, and bark-beetle impacts on visual preferences of national park visitors pp. 166-177

Arne Arnberger, Renate Eder, Brigitte Allex, Hemma Preisel, Martin Ebenberger and Maria Husslein

Improperly-zoned, spatially-marginalized, and poorly-served? An analysis of mobile home parks in Los Angeles County pp. 178-185

Gregory Pierce, C.J. Gabbe and Silvia R. Gonzalez

Targeted control measures for ecological restoration in Western Fujian, China pp. 186-192

Shixiong Cao, Chengqi Xia, Hui Yue, Hua Ma and Gengen Lin

Voter support for environmental bond referenda pp. 193-200

Christopher V. Hawkins and Yu Chia-Yuan

An overview of arable land use for the world economy: From source to sink via the global supply chain pp. 201-214

X.D. Wu, J.L. Guo, M.Y. Han and G.Q. Chen

Socio-economic factors affecting the rate of adoption of acacia plantations by smallholders in Indonesia pp. 215-223

Dwiko B. Permadi, Michael Burton, Ram Pandit, Digby Race, Chunbo Ma, Daniel Mendham and Eko B. Hardiyanto

Resident’s preferences for urban brownfield revitalization: Insights from two Czech cities pp. 224-234

Josef Navratil, Kamil Picha, Stanislav Martinat, Paul C. Nathanail, Kamila Tureckova and Andrea Holesinska

Acceptance studies in the field of land use—A critical and systematic review to advance the conceptualization of acceptance and acceptability pp. 235-245

Maria Busse and Rosemarie Siebert

Conflicts of land expropriation in China during 2006–2016: An overview and its spatio-temporal characteristics pp. 246-251

Qiaowen Lin, Shukui Tan, Lu Zhang, Siliang Wang, Chao Wei and Yanan Li

Local institutions and smallholder women’s access to land resources in semi-arid Kenya pp. 252-263

June Y.T. Po and Gordon M. Hickey

Expansion of the sugarcane industry and its effects on land use in São Paulo: Analysis from 2000 through 2015 pp. 264-274

Carlos Eduardo Caldarelli and Leandro Gilio

Implementing energy policies in urban development projects: The role of public planning authorities in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands pp. 275-289

Jens-Phillip Petersen and Erwin Heurkens

Managing protected areas as cultural landscapes: The case of the Alta Murgia National Park in Italy pp. 290-299

Marialuisa Saviano, Primiano Di Nauta, Marta Maria Montella and Fabiana Sciarelli

How densely populated and green are the places we live in? A study of the ten largest US cities pp. 300-316

Francesco Orsi

Disciplining the State: The role of alliances in contesting multi-level agri-environmental governance pp. 317-328

Jack McCarthy, Christine Bonnin and David Meredith

Economic assessment of Eucalyptus globulus short rotation energy crops under contrasting silvicultural intensities on marginal agricultural land pp. 329-337

Eduardo Acuña, Rafael Rubilar, Jorge Cancino, Timothy J. Albaugh and Chris A. Maier

Can the TV makeover format of edutainment lead to widespread changes in farmer behaviour and influence innovation systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya pp. 338-351

Graham Clarkson, Chris Garforth, Peter Dorward, George Mose, Carlos Barahona, Francisco Areal and MacKenzie Dove

The impacts of large-scale OFI on grains import: Empirical research with double difference method pp. 352-358

Xinhai Lu, Shangan Ke, Tao Cheng and Ting Chen

When the blanket is too short: Potential negative impacts of expanding indigenous land over a national park in a high priority area for conservation pp. 359-364

Guilherme Braga Ferreira

Can variations in the nature of a border modify the landscape? Evaluation of landscape changes in the Eastern part of the Cross border Catalan Space (1950–2009) pp. 365-381

Roser Pastor-Saberi, Diego Varga-Linde, Joan Vicente i Rufí and Margarida Castañer i Vivas

From the core to the periphery: Conflicts and cooperation over land and water in periurban Gurgaon, India pp. 382-390

Sumit Vij, Vishal Narain, Timothy Karpouzoglou and Pratik Mishra

Modelling the production impacts of a widespread conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales pp. 391-404

Laurence G. Smith, Philip J. Jones, Guy J.D. Kirk, Bruce D. Pearce and Adrian. G. Williams

Illegality and inequity in Ghana’s cocoa-forest landscape: How formalization can undermine farmers control and benefits from trees on their farms pp. 405-413

M. Hirons, C. McDermott, R. Asare, A. Morel, E. Robinson, J. Mason, E. Boyd, Y. Malhi and K Norris

REDD+ implementation in a high forest low deforestation area: Constraints on monitoring forest carbon emissions pp. 414-421

Vicente Guadalupe, Eleneide Doff Sotta, Valdenira Ferreira Santos, Leonardo José Gonçalves Aguiar, Marta Vieira, Cinthia Pereira de Oliveira and João Vitor Nascimento Siqueira

Large private agricultural projects and job creation: From discourse to reality. Case study in Sella Limba, Sierra Leone pp. 422-431

Augustin Palliere and Hubert Cochet

Land-use trends related to Natura2000 sites in Denmark pp. 432-441

Gregor Levin, Pia Frederiksen and Doan Nainggolan

Assessing food security and environmental protection in Mexico with a GIS-based Food Environmental Efficiency index pp. 442-454

J. Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña, Stéphane Couturier and Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero

Econometric analysis of income, productivity and diversification among smallholders in Brazil pp. 455-459

Gabriel Paes Herrera, Reinaldo Lourival, Reginaldo Brito da Costa, Dany Rafael Fonseca Mendes, Tito Belchior Silva Moreira, Urbano Gomes Pinto de Abreu and Michel Constantino

To leave or not to leave? Understanding determinants of farmers’ choices to remain in or abandon agri-environmental schemes pp. 460-470

Edi Defrancesco, Paola Gatto and Daniele Mozzato

Evaluating place quality in innovation districts: A Delphic hierarchy process approach pp. 471-486

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

Forestland connectivity in Romania—Implications for policy and management pp. 487-499

Petru Tudor Stăncioiu, Mihai Daniel Niță and Gabriel Ervin Lazăr

Modelled impacts of policies and climate change on land use and water quality in Austria pp. 500-514

Martin Schönhart, Helene Trautvetter, Juraj Parajka, Alfred Paul Blaschke, Gerold Hepp, Mathias Kirchner, Hermine Mitter, Erwin Schmid, Birgit Strenn and Matthias Zessner

Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion pp. 515-525

Wenbin Wu, Qiangyi Yu, Liangzhi You, Kevin Chen, Huajun Tang and Jianguo Liu

Assessing the economic marginality of agricultural lands in Italy to support land use planning pp. 526-534

Lorenzo Sallustio, Davide Pettenella, Paolo Merlini, Raoul Romano, Luca Salvati, Marco Marchetti and Piermaria Corona

How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis pp. 535-552

Liviu Nichiforel, Kevin Keary, Philippe Deuffic, Gerhard Weiss, Bo Thorsen, Georg Winkel, Mersudin Avdibegović, Zuzana Dobšinská, Diana Feliciano, Paola Gatto, Elena Gorriz Mifsud, Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein, Michal Hrib, Teppo Hujala, Laszlo Jager, Vilém Jarský, Krzysztof Jodłowski, Anna Lawrence, Diana Lukmine, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, Jelena Nedeljković, Dragan Nonić, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Klaus Pukall, Jacques Rondeux, Theano Samara, Zuzana Sarvašová, Ramona Elena Scriban, Rita Šilingienė, Milan Sinko, Makedonka Stojanovska, Vladimir Stojanovski, Nickola Stoyanov, Meelis Teder, Birger Vennesland, Lelde Vilkriste, Erik Wilhelmsson, Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann and Laura Bouriaud

Land use: The perception of risk by the citizens and local administrators in the North of Italy pp. 553-564

Emanuele Cabini, Luca Fontana, Pierluigi Malavasi and Ivo Iavicoli

A tale of two landscapes: Transferring landscape quality metrics from Wales to Iceland pp. 565-576

Ruth D. Swetnam and Fiona S. Tweed

Spatial aggregation of indicators in sustainability assessments: Descriptive and normative claims pp. 577-588

S. Allain, Gaël Plumecocq and D. Leenhardt

Land fragmentation and production diversification: A case study from rural Albania pp. 589-599

Pavel Ciaian, Fatmir Guri, Miroslava Rajcaniova, Dusan Drabik and Sergio Gomez Y Paloma

Agricultural land use conflict management—Vulnerabilities, law restrictions and negotiation frames. A wake-up call pp. 600-610

Ruxandra Mălina Petrescu-Mag, Dacinia Crina Petrescu, Hossein Azadi and Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag

Governmentality within REDD+: Optimizing incentives and efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation pp. 611-622

Jichuan Sheng and Hong Qiu

Governance arrangements, funding mechanisms and power configurations in current practices of strategic spatial plan implementation pp. 623-633

Eduardo Oliveira and Anna M. Hersperger

Combining spatial analysis with MCDA for the siting of healthcare facilities pp. 634-644

Dell’Ovo, Marta, Stefano Capolongo and Alessandra Oppio

Farm performance analysis: Technical efficiencies and technology gaps of Nepalese farmers in different agro-ecological regions pp. 645-653

Uttam Khanal, Clevo Wilson, Sriram Shankar, Viet-Ngu Hoang and Boon Lee

Criteria for selection and evaluation of biosphere reserves in support of the UNESCO MAB programme in South Africa pp. 654-663

Ruida Pool-Stanvliet, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann and Jan H. Giliomee

Institutional analysis of causes of deforestation in REDD+ pilot sites in the Equateur province: Implication for REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 664-674

Raymond Achu Samndong, Glenn Bush, Arild Vatn and Melissa Chapman

Critical thresholds in ecological restoration to achieve optimal ecosystem services: An analysis based on forest ecosystem restoration projects in China pp. 675-678

Junze Zhang, Luo Mengting, Yue Hui, Chen Xiyun and Feng Chong

Factors affecting landowner enrollment in wetland restoration in northeastern New York State pp. 679-685

Rick Welsh, Michaele E. Webb and Tom A. Langen

Urban residential reconversion through demolition: A land use model based on administrative spatial micro-data pp. 686-696

Jean Dubé, Sarah Desaulniers, Louis-Philippe Bédard, Antoine Binette and Emmanuelle Leblanc

Understanding farmers’ motivations for providing unsubsidised environmental benefits pp. 697-707

Jane Mills, Peter Gaskell, Julie Ingram and Stephen Chaplin

Open access and the sovereign commons: A political ecology of pastoral land tenure pp. 708-718

Roy Behnke

Social perception of urban agriculture in Latin-America. A case study in Mexican social housing pp. 719-734

Ana Nadal, Ileana Cerón-Palma, Carmen García-Gómez, María Pérez-Sánchez, Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, Eva Cuerva, Alejandro Josa and Joan Rieradevall

Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness—Assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas pp. 735-745

Lena Schaller, Stefano Targetti, Anastasio J. Villanueva, Ingo Zasada, Jochen Kantelhardt, Manuel Arriaza, Tufan Bal, Valérie Bossi Fedrigotti, F. Handan Giray, Kati Häfner, Edward Majewski, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Dimitre Nikolov, Jean-Christophe Paoli, Annette Piorr, Macario Rodríguez-Entrena, Fabrizio Ungaro, Peter H. Verburg, Boris van Zanten and Davide Viaggi

Transforming flash floods into resources in arid China pp. 746-753

Junze Zhang, Zhongqi Yu, Tengfei Yu, Jianhua Si, Qi Feng and Shixiong Cao

Modeling of reallocation in land consolidation with a hybrid method pp. 754-761

Ela Ertunç, Tayfun Çay and Hüseyin Haklı

Municipal management of residential collectively owned open space: Exploring the case of Israel pp. 762-771

Shira Loboda Lichtenbaum and Gillad Rosen

“Sponge City” in China—A breakthrough of planning and flood risk management in the urban context pp. 772-778

Faith Ka Shun Chan, James A. Griffiths, David Higgitt, Shuyang Xu, Fangfang Zhu, Yu-Ting Tang, Yuyao Xu and Colin R. Thorne

The changing nature of mining towns: Reflections from Australia, Canada and South Africa pp. 779-788

Lochner Marais, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Leith Deacon, Etienne Nel, Deidre van Rooyen and Jan Cloete

Should Forest Transition Theory include effects on forest fires? The case of Spain in the second half of the twentieth century pp. 789-797

Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and María-Isabel Ayuda

Analysis of land change in the dryland agricultural landscapes of eastern Botswana pp. 798-811

Felicia O. Akinyemi and Gofamodimo Mashame

The future of agriculture in the shrinking suburbs: The impact of real estate income and housing costs pp. 812-822

Hironori Yagi and Guy Garrod

A methodological approach for assessing businness investments in renewable resources from a circular economy perspective pp. 823-827

Enrica Donia, Angelo Marcello Mineo and Filippo Sgroi

Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households: The role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia pp. 828-838

Jonida Bou Dib, Vijesh Krishna, Zulkifli Alamsyah and Matin Qaim

Proposing policy changes for sewage sludge applications based on zinc within a circular economy perspective pp. 839-846

A. Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A. Amador-García, N. Ferreiro-Domínguez, N. Muñoz-Ferreiro, J.J. Santiago-Freijanes and M.R. Mosquera-Losada

Territorial transformations produced by the sugarcane agroindustry in the ethnic communities of López Adentro and El Tiple, Colombia pp. 847-860

Esteban Correa-García, Jorge Vélez-Correa, Emmanuel Zapata-Caldas, Irene Vélez-Torres and Apolinar Figueroa-Casas