Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jaap Zevenbergen

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Volume 140, issue C, 2024

Why did the common objective be biased in the execution collaborative governance program? The case from Dayak Indonesia

Anyualatha Haridison

Diffusion without Implementation: The social function of property in Latin America

Gabriel Ondetti

Differentiation of urban-rural interface and its driving mechanism: A case study of Nanjing, China

Hui Cao, Cheng Chen, Jianglong Chen, Weixuan Song, Jiang He and Chunhui Liu

A global review of urban blue-green planning tools

A.Chathurika S. Perera, Peter J. Davies and Petra L. Graham

What matters most in determining European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental measures? A systematic review of the quantitative literature

Carolin Canessa, Amer Ait-Sidhoum, Sven Wunder and Johannes Sauer

‘Go-No-Go’: Anticommons and Inter-ministerial conflict in India’s Forest and Mineral Governance

Priyanshu Gupta and Rajesh Bhattacharya

Government concerns, the benefit cliff, and land use: A comparative study of rural impoverished and marginalised impoverished groups

Fangzhou Xia, Jing Huang and Zhengfeng Zhang

Dynamics of land cover changes and driving forces in China’s drylands since the 1970 s

Bingfang Wu, Zhijun Fu, Bojie Fu, Changzhen Yan, Hongwei Zeng and Wenwu Zhao

An improved dynamic game analysis of farmers, enterprises and rural collective economic organizations based on idle land reuse policy

Zhenhua Hu, Gaohui Song, Ziyue Hu and Jiaqi Fang

Agrivoltaics and landscape change: First evidence from built cases in the Netherlands

Igor Sirnik, Dirk Oudes and Sven Stremke

TIC-driven sustainable land use mode in the Loess Plateau: A case study of gully land consolidation project in Yan'an City, China

Yanjun Guo, Yansui Liu, Ruotong Li, Yurui Li and Jieyong Wang

Ecological redline delineation based on the supply and demand of ecosystem services

Huangwei Deng, Xuefei Zhou and Zhenliang Liao

The legacy of partible inheritance on farmland fragmentation: Evidence from Austria

Markus Gatterer, Heidi Leonhardt, Klaus Salhofer and Ulrich Morawetz

Land for urbanization: Shifting policies and variegated accumulation strategies in a fast-growing city in eastern India

Dhiraj Barman and Subhanil Chowdhury

The Greek model of urbanization

Demetris Stathakis and Pavlos Baltas

From isolation to linkage: Holistic insights into ecological risk induced by land use change

Jianxiao Liu, Chaoxiang Wen, Zhewei Liu and Yue Yu

The nonlinear influence of land conveyance on urban carbon emissions: An interpretable ensemble learning-based approach

Renlu Qiao, Zhiqiang Wu, Qingrui Jiang, Xiaochang Liu, Shuo Gao, Li Xia and Tianren Yang

Development of green space provision for housing estates at metropolitan scale: A spatiotemporal assessment of proximity in a rapidly urbanizing Chinese city during the last 10 years

Huilin Liang, Yujia Yan, Qi Yan and Qingping Zhang

Land use footprints and policies in Brazil

Rafael Parras, Gislaine Costa de Mendonça, Luis Miguel da Costa, Juan Ricardo Rocha, Renata Cristina Araújo Costa, Carlos Alberto Valera, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Fernando António Leal Pacheco and Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra

Environmental regulation and land resource allocation in China: Empirical evidence from micro-level land transaction data

Zhijiu Yang, Hai Ding and Wenbo Zhu

Volume 139, issue C, 2024

The role of forest user group membership in the extraction of teak forest resources for smallholder cattle farming

Eko Nugroho, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman and Simon J. Oosting

Large-scale acquisitions of communal land in the Global South: Assessing the risks and formulating policy recommendations

Jorge A. Rincón Barajas, Christoph Kubitza and Jann Lay

Achieving the supply-demand balance of ecosystem services through zoning regulation based on land use thresholds

Xiaoqing Zhao, Yifei Xu, Junwei Pu, Junyi Tao, Yanjun Chen, Pei Huang, Xinyu Shi, Yuju Ran and Zexian Gu

Obstacles to local payments for ecosystem services schemes for water management at the catchment scale: A case study from Eastern Scotland

Laure Kuhfuss, V. Burns, O. Shortall and A. Vinten

Ecological network assessment in dynamic landscapes: Multi-scenario simulation and conservation priority analysis

Jing Gao, Jian Gong, Yao Li, Jianxin Yang and Xun Liang

Integrating the administrative spillover effect into the spatial governance system to revisit land development: A study in urban-rural fringe areas of Wuhan and neighboring cities, China

Chen Zeng, Yizhen Yin, Luyu Guo, Chenlu Liu, Yang Zhang and Zhengxue Huang

Estimating supply-demand mismatches for optimization of sustainable land use planning in a rapidly growing urban agglomeration (India)

Manob Das, Arijit Das and Selim Saikh

An evaluative study of economic security from the perspective of land resource assets

Shuhong Wang, Xintian Liu, Xueli Chen and Malin Song

How rent facilitates capital accumulation: A case study of rural land capitalization in Suzhou, China

Xiaoliang Hu, Hongbo Li, Xiaolin Zhang, Yuan Yuan and Kaiyang Jia

The hidden impact of policy changes on remnant vegetation in Queensland, Australia

Stephanie Hernandez, Vanessa M. Adams and Stephanie Duce

Algiers master plan, land use and forced relocation: Monitoring change with a spatial decision support system

Sihem Chourouk Serrai and Kahina Amal Djiar

A novel system for boosting land productivity and income of smallholder farmers by intercropping vegetables in waterlogged paddy fields in the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta

M. Maniruzzaman, S.K. Sarangi, M. Mainuddin, J.C. Biswas, R.W. Bell, M.B. Hossain, P.L.C. Paul, Md.J. Kabir, S. Digar, S. Mandal, B. Maji, D. Burman, U.K. Mandal and K.K. Mahanta

Unraveling the complexity of land use change and path dependency in agri-environmental schemes for small farmers: A serious game approach

Yair Asael Alpuche Álvarez, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Daniel Müller, Laura Vang Rasmussen and Zhanli Sun

Social capital and the effectiveness of land use policies: Evidence from rural China

Helen X.H. Bao, Yan Jiang, Ziyou Wang and Lei Feng

Spatial pattern of cultivated land fragmentation in mainland China: Characteristics, dominant factors, and countermeasures

Sijing Ye, Shuyi Ren, Changqing Song, Zhenbo Du, Kuangxu Wang, Bin Du, Feng Cheng and Dehai Zhu

Ecological burden shifting associated with land transfer embodied in global trade: An ecological network analysis

Wenjing Li, Min Bai and Jing Wang

Who should deliver agri-environmental public goods in the UK? New land managers and their future role as public good providers

Hermann Kam and Clive Potter

Exploring the human-nature nexus towards effective nature-based solutions: the Aral Sea case

Shahzoda Alikhanova, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland and Joseph William Bull

Social-ecological network of peri-urban forest in urban expansion: A case study of urban agglomeration in Guanzhong Plain, China

Guoyu Wang, Jing Li, Xianfeng Liu, Boyan Li and Ya Zhang

Impact of farmland quality on farmland rents and its constraints: Evidence from plots in six Chinese provinces

Yuan Qi, Ruihan Lin, Jiaqing Zhang, Mengna Lu, Yiyue Zhang, Haile Zhao, Xin Chen, Yaoyao Li and Daolin Zhu

Urban agriculture in Brazil: Possibilities and challenges for Santarém, eastern Amazonia

Thiago Almeida Vieira and Thomas Panagopoulos

Antidote or poison? Digital economy and land-use

Qingfang Liu, Huaxiong Jiang, Jianmei Li, Jinping Song and Xiantian Zhang

Incorporating Adjacent Free Space (AFS) for marine spatial unit in 3D marine cadastre data model based on LADM

Ainn Zamzuri, Muhammad Imzan Hassan and Alias Abdul Rahman

A different dimension in deforestation and forest degradation: Non-forestry uses of forests in Turkey

Erdoğan Atmiş, Damla Yıldız and Cihan Erdönmez

Perception of green spaces' role in enhancing mental health and mental well-being in small and medium-sized cities

María Mar Delgado-Serrano, Katarína Melichová, Isotta Mac Fadden and Catalina Cruz-Piedrahita

Developing a land development compensation model for returned land in tract expropriation: Towards a unified urban-rural land market in China

Jingpeng Guo, Yinghui Zhao, Frank Yonghong Li, Kebiao Mao, Jinfeng He and Qiang He

“It doesn’t matter at all—we are family”: Titling and joint property rights in Myanmar

Isabel Brigitte Lambrecht, Nang Lun Kham Synt, Hnin Ei Win, Kristi Mahrt and Khin Zin Win

Farmland afforestation: Forest optimal rotation ages across discrete optimisation objectives

O’Donoghue, Cathal, O’Fatharta, Eoin, Cathal Geoghegan and Mary Ryan

Volume 138, issue C, 2024

Limits to participation in road infrastructure planning: Which choices do citizens make when their valued landscapes are under pressure?

Anne Marel Hilbers, Frans J. Sijtsma, Tim Busscher and Jos Arts

Maximizing impact: The power of combining land tenure formalization and productive social safety nets programmes in Tanzania

Haji Msangi, Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula and Betty Waized

How does industrial transformative process shape the spatial dynamics of urban development?

Weize Song, Wenqing Yang, Na Wang, Can Wang, Zheng Li, Yifu Ou and Xiaoling Zhang

Is “pro-poor land administration” a realistic proposition? How a land survey in Bangladesh reproduced and reconfigured gendered and racialised poverty

Oliver Scanlan, Nasrin Siraj, Parag Ritchil and Shamsagor Mankin

Community forestry in a changing context: A perspective from Nepal’s mid-hill

Hari Krishna Laudari, Lok Mani Sapkota, Tek Maraseni, Poorneswor Subedi, Shiva Pariyar, Tika Raj Kaini, Shyam Babu Lopchan, Christopher Weston and Luba Volkova

Land use planning to minimize the export of phosphorus: An optimization model for dairy production at a catchment area scale

Andrés Castagna, Federico Matonte, Antonio Mauttone, Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego and Oscar Blumetto

Can ecological compensation based on the transfer of development rights (TDR) improve ecosystem service value? A multi-scenario simulation

Xin Nie, Xiaojuan Li, Chengyu Lyu, Yanglan Su and Han Wang

Cropland compensation in mountainous areas in China aggravates non-grain production: evidence from Fujian Province

Zhen Xie, Qianqian Zhang, Chun Jiang and Ruobin Yao

Land use policy impacts on effective farmland planting area: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China

Shengnan Yu, Jiaguo Qi, Xiaokang Zhang, Steven G. Pueppke, Weixin Ou, Huanjun Liu, Xiumin Cai and Tingting Ren

Analyzing determinants of long-rotation plantation decisions by local households in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with Bayesian Networks

Hai Dinh Le, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Vo Thi Hai Hien, Luu Thi Van and Ngo Thi Mai

Chinese land complex: Hometown ties and corporate land acquisition

Qiuping Peng and Huaikang Zhou

Tourism on the roof of the world: Socio-ecological impacts of tourism on the Indian Trans-Himalaya

Neeraj Mahar, Pariva Dobriyal, Ruchi Badola and Syed Ainul Hussain

An exploration of the relationship between land governance and development through a systematic review of interventions

Vitor Bukvar Fernandes and Bastiaan Philip Reydon

Agro–economic determinants of violations of protected areas in Western Africa

Marco Rogna

Recasting tenure and labour in non-equilibrium environments: Making the case for “high-reliability” pastoral institutions

Linda Pappagallo

Security of land tenure: A comparative analysis among sub-ethnic groups in rural communities of Oyo State, Nigeria

Gbenga John Oladehinde, Lasun Mykail Olayiwola and Kehinde Olayinka Popoola

Rural housing-jobs synergy at the county level in mountainous and hilly areas of China: Spatio-temporal pattern and driving mechanism

Huikun Hong, Zhicong Cai, Heping Liao and Ting Liu

What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018

Anna-Katharina Brenner, Willi Haas, Tobias Krüger, Sarah Matej, Helmut Haberl, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Martin Behnisch, Jochen A.G. Jaeger and Melanie Pichler

Sustainable land use: Policy implications of systematic land regularization in Mozambique

João Carrilho, Gustavo Dgedge, Pedro Manuel Pinto dos Santos and Jorge Trindade

Terrorism and land use in agriculture: A response to a replication attempt and additional insights on replication guidelines

Adesoji Adelaja and Justin George

An analysis of coastal sand dune management in Oregon (United States) from the 19th to the 21st century

D.M.R. Sampath, J.G. Freitas and J.A. Dias

Interactive transition of cultivated land and construction land during china's urbanization: A coordinated analytical framework of explicit and implicit forms

Yanbo Qu, Lingyun Zhan, Chuanchen Wei, Qingqing Zhang and Jieyong Wang

Empowerment and disempowerment in community-based natural resource management: Examining CREMA outcomes in Ghana

Samuel M. Mawutor and Reem Hajjar

Does joint land ownership empower rural women socio-economically? Evidence from Eastern Nepal

Puspa Raj Ghimire, Niranjan Devkota, Tek Marasini, Ghanashyan Khanal, Jagat Deuja and Umesh Khadka

The decoupling relationship between land use efficiency and carbon emissions in China: An analysis using the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework

Jing Huang, Wenjing Han, Zhengfeng Zhang, Shanshan Ning and Xiaoling Zhang

Does ecologization matter for technical efficiency in crop production? A case of Swedish agriculture

Wei Huang, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska and Helena Hansson