Land Use Policy

2016 - 2025

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Volume 133, issue C, 2023

Social and environmental factors affecting the amount of property taxes collected by local authorities in Israel

Mordekhay Mintz and Boris A. Portnov

Persistent, pragmatic and prolific: Urban master planning in Accra, Dar es Salaam and Lilongwe

Sylvia Croese, Jennifer Robinson, Kofi Kekeli Amedzro, Philip Harrison, Wilbard Kombe, Evance Mwathunga and George Owusu

Women’s land ownership in India: Evidence from digital land records

Charu Jain, Disha Saxena, Somnath Sen and Deepak Sanan

Context matters: Co-creating nature-based solutions in rural living labs

Katriina Soini, Carl Cyrus Anderson, Annemarie Polderman, Carlone Teresa, Debele Sisay, Prashant Kumar, Matteo Mannocchi, Slobodan Mickovski, Depy Panga, Francesco Pilla, Swantje Preuschmann, Jeetendra Sahani and Heikki Tuomenvirta

Planning for cooler cities in Ghana: Contribution of green infrastructure to urban heat mitigation in Kumasi Metropolis

Isaac Sarfo, Shuoben Bi, Xiuhua Xu, Emmanuel Yeboah, Clement Kwang, Michael Batame, Foster Kofi Addai, Umar Wakil Adamu, Emmanuella Aboagye Appea, Michael Atuahene Djan, Henry Bortey Otchwemah, Vanessa Elikem Kudoh, Floribert Vuguziga, Olumide Samuel Olowe and John Ernest Koku

Narratives on cutting down trees on private land. A comparison of urban and rural municipalities in Poland using the Q-deliberation method

Krzysztof Maczka, Piotr Matczak, Marcin Mielewczyk, Patrycja Przewoźna, Adam Inglot, Piotr Wężyk, Karolina Zięba-Kulawik and Paweł Hawryło

Discerning the process of cultivated land governance transition in China since the reform and opening-up-- Based on the multiple streams framework

Yuxuan Dang, Zhenting Zhao, Xiangbin Kong, Ming Lei, Yubo Liao, Zhen Xie and Wei Song

On real estate market transparency: The relationship with ICT trade and investment

Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni, Amir Arjomandi, Amirhossein Eslami Andargoli and Rohan Bennett

Payment for environmental services: Forest conservation and poverty alleviation in a tropical region of Mexico

Humberto Reyes-Hernández

Impact of land tenure on livelihoods of women livestock-keepers in Burkina Faso

Marthe Montcho, Elie A. Padonou, Marlise Montcho, Meshack N. Mutua and Phillip Bayen

Conflicts in urban peripheries in Europe

Janina Kleemann, Berenike Struve and Marcin Spyra

Adopting Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) model to assess land governance in the peri-urban areas of Ibadan, Nigeria

Taiwo Oladapo Babalola

Do local governments capitalise on the spillover effect in the housing market? Quasi-experimental evidence from house purchase restrictions in China

Qing Yu, Eddie Chi-Man Hui and Jianfu Shen

Impact of land use on bike-sharing travel patterns: Evidence from large scale data analysis in China

Xiaoyang Dong, Bin Zhang and Zhaohua Wang

Understanding vitality of public space: A review with an example of capital city Kathmandu in Nepal

Uttam Paudel and Krishna Prasad Pant

Investigating the reasons behind the choice to promote crop diversification practices through the new CAP reform in Europe

Francesco Galioto and Pasquale Nino

Mapping crop producer perceptions: The role of global drivers on local agricultural land use in Brazil

Yue Dou, Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, Mateus Batistella, Sara Torres, Emilio Moran and Jianguo Liu

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in spatial planning for urban flood mitigation: The perspective of flood management experts in Accra

Prince Asare, Funda Atun and Karin Pfeffer

How to halt deforestation in the Amazon? A Bayesian process-tracing approach

Frederico Brandão, Barbara Befani, Jaílson Soares-Filho, Raoni Rajão and Edenise Garcia

Spillover effect of the oil palm boom on the growth of surrounding towns in the eastern Amazon

Susane Cristini Gomes Ferreira, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Hilder André Bezerra Farias and Pedro Mota

Viewpoint: Sovereignty and reversing Brazil’s history of Amazon destruction

Stephannie Fernandes, Geraldo W. Fernandes and Philip Fearnside

Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe: Chinese farmers’ responses to shifts in policy and changing socio-economic conditions

Bingjie Song, Guy M. Robinson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Yanlong Xue and Bing Wang

Tillage conditions or social economy? An analysis of the dominant driving force of farmland marginalization from the farmers' perspective

Qianru Chen, Manyu Wu and Hualin Xie

Analysis of the contribution of land consolidation to sustainable poverty alleviation under various natural conditions

Hanbing Li, Xiaobin Jin, Barbara Prack McCormick, Pablo Tittonell, Jing Liu, Bo Han, Rui Sun and Yinkang Zhou

Mapping regional accessibility of public transport and services in support of spatial planning: A case study in Flanders

Els Verachtert, Inge Mayeres, Karolien Vermeiren, Maarten Van der Meulen, Marlies Vanhulsel, Geoffrey Vanderstraeten, Isabelle Loris, Geert Mertens, Guy Engelen and Lien Poelmans

Spatial transition dynamics of urbanization and Rohingya refugees’ settlements in Bangladesh

Md. Tariqul Islam, Sujit Kumar Sikder, Mark Charlesworth and Atta Rabbi

Understanding cropland abandonment from economics within a representative village and its empirical analysis in Chinese mountainous areas

Ying Zhang, Xiubin Li, Tiechou Shi, Hongwei Li and Liang Zhai

Implications of land restitution as a Transformative Social Policy for Water-Energy-Food (WEF) insecurity in Magareng Local Municipality, South Africa

Saul Ngarava

Decoupling in governance: the land governance network in a region of the Colombian Andes

Luisa Díez-Echavarría, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo and Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

Volume 132, issue C, 2023

Spatiotemporal implications of flooding on relocation risk in rural and urban coastal municipalities

A. Bukvic, A. Mitchell, Y. Shao and J.L. Irish

Land supply and industrial agglomeration: Extension of the new economic geography model with land elements incorporated

Wenbo Zheng

Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: Garden cities’ policies for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world

Antonio Blanco Pastor, Eamonn Canniffe and Carlos Jesús Rosa Jiménez

The spatial heterogeneity and dynamics of land redevelopment: Evidence from 287 Chinese cities

Kexin Cao, Yu Deng, Wenxue Wang and Shenghe Liu

Factors affecting phase change in coupling coordination between population, crop yield, and soil erosion in China’s 281 cities

Jingyu Wang, Zhen Wang, Keke Li, Cai Li, Fang Wen and Zhihua Shi

Accessibility analysis in spatial planning: A case of special economic zones (SEZs) in Campania, Southern Italy

Ciro Buonocore, Fabio Carlucci, Lucia Ciciarelli, Andrea Papola, Fiore Tinessa, Daniela Tocchi and Barbara Trincone

Enhancing public value with co-creation in public land development: The role of municipalities

Melissa Candel and Jenny Paulsson

Enhancing urban public space through appropriate sustainable mobility policies. A multi-criteria analysis approach

Konstantina Anastasiadou and Nikolaos Gavanas

Policy instruments and their success in preserving temperate grassland: Evidence from 16 years of implementation

Maria Haensel, Luzie Scheinpflug, Rebekka Riebl, Eva Julia Lohse, Norbert Röder and Thomas Koellner

Understanding land-use sustainability with a systematical framework: An evaluation case of China

Bo Han, Xiaobin Jin, Rui Sun, Hanbing Li, Xinyuan Liang and Yinkang Zhou

Farmers' perception and choice preference of grassland ecosystem services: Evidence from the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Xiaoqi Wang and Xueyan Zhao

Urban sprawl and home-delivered services: An exploratory analysis of spatial variations of cost and quality in Flanders (Belgium)

Kobe Boussauw, Thérèse Steenberghen, Marijke Vermander, Koos Fransen and Kelly Wittemans

Exploring the temporal and spatial effects of city size on regional economic integration: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Danling Chen, Wenbo Hu, Yuying Li, Chaozheng Zhang, Xinhai Lu and Hui Cheng

Pro-poor change in the aftermath of disasters – Exploring possibilities at the intersection of disaster politics and land rights issues in Central Philippines

Mariëlle van Es and Bert Bruins

Bi-temporal characterization of terrestrial temperature in relation to urban land use land cover dynamics and policies in Kozhikode Urban Area, India

Ashique Vadakkuveettil and Aakriti Grover

Land observatories, discourses and struggles beyond the smokescreen. A case study in Senegal

Quentin Grislain and Jeremy Bourgoin

Food and electricity self-sufficiency trade-offs in Reunion Island: Modelling land-use change scenarios with stakeholders

Valentin Russeil, Danny Lo Seen, François Broust, Muriel Bonin and Jean-Philippe Praene

Determinants and consequences of large-scale tree plantation projects: Evidence from the Great Plains Shelterbelt Project

Aparna Howlader

What hinders climate adaptation? Approaching barriers in municipal land use planning through participant observation

Denise Boehnke, Mathias Jehling and Joachim Vogt

The short and long run effects of land use consolidation programme on farm input uptakes: Evidence from Rwanda

Aimable Nsabimana, Philip Adom, Alice Mukamugema and Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze

Collaborating for longleaf pine: A case study

Hampton Randall and Peter Brewitt

Examining policy−institution−program (PIP) responses against the drivers of ecosystem dynamics. A chronological review (1960–2020) from Nepal

Kishor Aryal, Tek Maraseni and Armando Apan

The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society, by Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Toronto Press, 2021

Yiming Wang

Understanding barriers and opportunities for promoting transit-oriented development with bus rapid transit in Bogotá and Quito

C. Erik Vergel-Tovar

“The cost of doing business”: Private rights, public resources, and the resulting diversity of state-level forestry policies in the U.S

Brita Goldstein, Mindy S. Crandall and Erin Clover Kelly

Land and housing price increases due to metro effect: An empirical analysis of Santiago, Chile, 2008–2019

Ernesto López-Morales, Claudia Sanhueza, Nicolás Herrera, Sebastián Espinoza and Vicente Mosso

Land market concentration, developers’ pricing decisions, and class monopoly rent in urban China

Xian Zheng, Xiaorong Xie and Linzi Zheng

Rethinking developmental state intervention in the housing supply of a transitional economy: Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam

Youseung Shin, Youngsang Kwon and Ducksu Seo

Crop diversification as a household livelihood strategy under environmental stress. Factors contributing to the adoption of crop diversification in shrimp cultivation and agricultural crop farming zones of coastal Bangladesh

Amelie Bernzen, Franziska Sohns, Yuanyuan Jia and Boris Braun

A qualitative analysis of Non-Timber Forest Products activities as a strategy to promote sustainable land use in the Brazilian Cerrado

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello, Hubert Gulinck, Pieter Van den Broeck and Constanza Parra

Globalization of forest land use: Increasing threats on climate-vulnerable regions

Siyi Kan, Bin Chen and Guoqian Chen

Multifunctional Green Belts: A planning policy assessment of Green Belts wider functions in England

Matthew G. Kirby and Alister J. Scott

Can mixed land use promote social integration? Multiple mediator analysis based on spatiotemporal big data in Beijing

Fangzhou Xia and Pingzhen Lu

Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups

William R. Casola, M. Nils Peterson, Krishna Pacifici, Erin O. Sills and Christopher E. Moorman

A game theory approach to land acquisition conflicts in Pakistan

Ahsan Shafi, Zhanqi Wang, Muhsan Ehsan, Faizan Ahmed Riaz, Muhammad Rashid Ali and Feng Xu

The main drivers of urban sprawl in Portuguese medium cities between 2001 and 2011

João de Abreu e Silva and Marcos Correia

Drawing the line: Opening up and closing down the siting of a high voltage transmission route in the Netherlands

Kyra Ruiten, Udo Pesch, Toyah Rodhouse, Aad Correljé, Shannon Spruit, Antje Tenhaaf, Jochem Dijkshoorn and Susan van den Berg

Land tenure and investment in productive inputs in Ghanaian cocoa farming: A generalised structural equation modelling approach

Emmanuel Donkor, Frederick Kwabena Frimpong and Victor Owusu

Mixed landform with high-rise buildings: A spatial analysis integrating horizon-vertical dimension in natural-human urban systems

Zuo Zhang and Wenwu Tang

Drivers of winegrowers' decision on land use abandonment based on exploratory spatial data analysis and multilevel models

Consuelo Calafat-Marzal, Mercedes Sánchez-García, Aurea Gallego-Salguero and Veronica Piñeiro

Institutional support for building resilience within rural communities characterised by multifunctional land use

Claudia Baldwin, Jeff Hamerlinck and Anna McKinlay

Brazil needs juridical security to recover agri-environmental epistemic sovereignty

Michel E.D. Chaves, Ieda D. Sanches and Marcos Adami

Structural succession of land resources under the influence of different policies: A case study for Shanxi Province, China

Ziyue Yu, Xiangzheng Deng, Ali Cheshmehzangi and Eugenio Mangi

The distribution characteristics and driving mechanism of vacant land in Chengdu, China: A perspective of urban shrinkage and expansion

Wei Zhang, Yuqing Li and Caigui Zheng

Land valuation in densifying cities: The negotiation process between institutional landowners and municipal planning authorities

Gabriela Debrunner and David Kaufmann

Estimating the parcel-level impacts of agricultural conservation easements on farmland loss using satellite data in New England

Kaitlyn Lee Malakoff and Christoph Nolte

Maize boom, bust and beyond: Investigating land use transitions in the northern Thai uplands

Pin Pravalprukskul, Thilde Bech Bruun and Peter Messerli

Rural residential land expansion and its impacts on cultivated land in China between 1990 and 2020

Shuchang Liu, Wu Xiao, Yanmei Ye, Tingting He and Heng Luo

A framework for participatory scenario planning to guide transitions towards sustainability in mountain social-ecological systems: A case study from the Colombian Andes

Tatiana Rodríguez, Björn Reu, Sergio Bolívar-Santamaría, Alexandra Cortés-Aguilar and Corina Buendía

Climate-smart cocoa in forest landscapes: Lessons from institutional innovations in Ghana

S. van der Haar, E.J. Gallagher, G.C. Schoneveld, M.A. Slingerland and C. Leeuwis

The Role of Private Reserves of Natural Heritage (RPPN) on natural vegetation dynamics in Brazilian biomes

Fábio Gabriel Nascibem, Ramon Felipe Bicudo Da Silva, Alessandra Aparecida Viveiro and Oswaldo Gonçalves Junior

Dynamic change and evolutionary mechanism of city land leasing network—Taking the Yangtze River Delta region in China as an example

Hongzheng Wang, Xinhai Lu, Lianyue Feng, Zhihang Yuan, Yifeng Tang and Xu Jiang

Toward constructing an eco-account of cultivated land by quantifying the resources flow and eco-asset transfer in China

Dan Su, Yu Cao, Jiayi Wang, Xiaoqian Fang and Qing Wu

Re-using vacant farm buildings for commercial purposes: Two cases from the Netherlands

Maarten Cornelis Johannes Koreman and Willem Korthals Altes

Undertaking land administration reform: Is there a better way?

Anthony Francis Burns, Abbas Rajabifard and Davood Shojaei

Have the new round of agricultural land system reform improved farmers' agricultural inputs in China?

Maogang Gong, Yanan Zhong, Yun Zhang, Ehsan Elahi and Yuanxi Yang

Planning-related land value changes for explaining instruments of compensation and value capture in Switzerland

Andreas Hengstermann and Vera Götze

Urban land policy and urban land use efficiency: An analysis based on remote sensing and institutional credibility thesis

Nesru H. Koroso

The practical norms of land governance in Senegalese communes. Institutional incompleteness, politicisation, semi-formality and bricolage

Philippe Lavigne Delville, Momar Diongue and Ibrahima Faye Diouf

Visualisation and dissemination of 3D valuation units and groups – An LADM valuation information compliant prototype

Abdullah Kara, Peter van Oosterom, Ruud Kathmann and Christiaan Lemmen

Modeling the interaction of internal and external systems of rural settlements: The case of Guangdong, China

De Tong, Yiyu Sun, Junqing Tang, Zhenying Luo, Jinfeng Lu and Xuan Liu

Socio-economic impacts of agricultural land conversion: A meta-analysis

Zhihui Zhang, Samane Ghazali, Astrida Miceikienė, Dejan Zejak, Shahla Choobchian, Marcin Pietrzykowski and Hossein Azadi

Seeing like the state? Customary land pressures and fracturing tenure systems in rural Zambia

Simon Manda and Lizzy Banda

Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Takemore Chagomoka, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Axel Drescher, Nikolaus Schareika and Johannes Schlesinger

Abandonment factors and alternatives in sloping olive growing: The case of Andalusia, Spain

Carmen Carmona-Torres, Carlos Parra-López, Samir Sayadi and Liliana Reina-Usuga

Land tenure and food security in South India

Hulya Dagdeviren, Arthanari Elangovan and Ramanathan Parimalavelli

Urban expansion induced loss of natural vegetation cover and ecosystem service values: A scenario-based study in the siliguri municipal corporation (Gateway of North-East India)

Tirthankar Basu, Arijit Das, Ketan Das and Paulo Pereira

Cost distance and potential accessibility as alternative spatial approximators of human influence in LUCC modelling

Michal Druga and Jozef Minár

Women’s land rights, gendered epistemic tensions, and the need for a feminist approach to land administration

Serene Ho, Maria Tanyag and Elisa Scalise