Land Use Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Land Use Policy is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assessing performance and disparities in China’s land finance transition: Insights from neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism255
Agro-industrial development: Lessons from Brazil250
Austrian Cadastre still in use – Example proceedings to determine the legal status of land property in southern Poland232
Adaptive change of land use to nature and society in China’s agro-pastoral ecotone159
Tradable planning permits in the field: Executive experimental results from Germany156
Editorial Board149
Flexibility of land use plans: Between supporting development and opportunism. Evidence from Poland146
The Forest Management Policy and its Influence in Forest area Utilization and Empowering Forest Communities in Yogyakarta144
A commentary on Botswana’s 2019 National Land Policy135
Title Validation and collaborative mapping to accelerate quality assurance of land registration134
Advancing urban hub planning: A bibliometric analysis of concepts, effects evaluation, and spatial design130
Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka126
A village a field? Agronomic evaluation of fruit trees in inhabited space – Lessons for land use policy from a case study in Israel's Sharon Region124
Fair shares? Advancing land economics through cooperative game theory123
Modern challenges of property market analysis- homogeneous areas determination122
Upgrading to 3D cadastre in Morocco: Lessons learned from benchmarking of international 3D cadastral systems121
The impact of decision-making on conflict: Rethinking the roles of technocrats and residents during Tidal River Management in coastal Bangladesh120
A geospatial decision support system for ecotourism: a case study in the Campania region of Italy109
Editorial Board108
The role of UK universities as economic drivers in a localisation agenda: A case study of City Deals108
Orderly and synergistic development of urban-rural integration based on evolutionary game model: A case study in the Jiangxi Province, China103
Natural and financial impacts of payments for forest carbon offset: A 14 year-long case study in an indigenous community in Panama103
Revisiting global food production and consumption patterns by developing resilient food systems for local communities100
Identifying opportunities to close yield gaps in China by use of certificated cultivars to estimate potential productivity96
Tourism on the roof of the world: Socio-ecological impacts of tourism on the Indian Trans-Himalaya95
Does a more compact urban center layout matter in reducing household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese cities94
Evaluating the use of old cadastral maps92
Integration of indigenous people into sustainable development through the territorial analysis of their potential: The case of the Lenca people in Honduras92
Local stakeholders’ priorities and perceptions towards forest ecosystem services in the Red panda habitat region of Nepal91
A multi-level spatial assessment framework for identifying land use conflict zones89
Farmer typologies integrating latent and observed characteristics: Insights for soil and water conservation outreach88
Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China85
The influence of agricultural industrial policy on non-grain production of cultivated land: A case study of the “one village, one product” strategy implemented in Guanzhong Plain of China84
Toward classification-based sustainable revitalization: Assessing the vitality of traditional villages84
Agrivoltaics and landscape change: First evidence from built cases in the Netherlands83
Exploring the commodification of biodiversity using olive oil producers’ willingness to accept82
The direct and lag effects of administrative division adjustment on urban expansion patterns in Chinese mega-urban agglomerations81
The contribution of the commons to the persistence of mountain grazing systems under the Common Agricultural Policy80
Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina79
From isolation to linkage: Holistic insights into ecological risk induced by land use change75
Community perceptions of the social impacts of the Metolong Dam and Reservoir in Lesotho75
Blockchain technology adaptation for land administration services: The importance of socio-cultural elements74
Community-led regeneration practice in Ghalam Gudeh District, Bandar Anzali, Iran: A participatory action research (PAR) Project73
Tele-connection of global agricultural land network: Incorporating complex network approach with multi-regional input-output analysis72
Explanation of land-use system evolution: Modes, trends, and mechanisms71
Land titling and internal migration: Evidence from China69
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning69
The decoupling relationship between land use efficiency and carbon emissions in China: An analysis using the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework69
Response of landscape dynamics to socio-economic development and biophysical setting across the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China and its implications for regional sustainable land management69
Thriving in turbulent times: Livelihood resilience and vulnerability assessment of Bolivian Indigenous forest households69
Reviewing the Cerrado's limits, flora distribution patterns, and conservation status for policy decisions68
Amenity-based development and protected areas in the American West66
Editorial Board65
Traditional leasehold of land for residential and commercial use in Ghana: Structure and practices from the Golden Stool65
Editorial Board65
Editorial Board64
Decomposition analysis of bioresources: Implementing a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy strategy in the Baltic Sea Region63
Editorial Board63
Spatial dimensions of dichotomous adaptive responses to natural hazards in coastal districts of West Bengal, India62
Overlapping of mine sites and highway route in Turkey: Evaluation in terms of mining land use criteria and land-use planning62
Towards climate targets with cropland afforestation – effect of subsidies on profitability61
Tourism-driven displacement in Naples, Italy61
The German Verkehrswert (market value) of land: Statutory land valuation, spatial planning, and land policy60
Digital advocacy at the science-policy interface: Resolving land-use conflicts in conservation forests59
Comparison of traditional method and genetic algorithm optimization in the land reallocation stage of land consolidation59
Does the development zone promote population urbanization? Evidence from China59
Optimal land use allocation for the Heathrow opportunity area using multi-objective linear programming59
Comparative analysis of driving forces of land use/cover change in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Selenga River Basin58
Urbanization path, housing price and land finance: International experience and China’s facts58
Influence of public policy planning on peri-urban land speculation in (Greater) Eastern Bypass in Nairobi Metropolitan57
The relationships between land tenure, cattle production, and climate change – A systematic literature review56
Indigenes’ exclusion from neo-customary land: A perspective from changes in usufruct rights in Pramso, peri-urban Kumasi – Ghana55
Lessons learned from participatory land use planning with high-resolution remote sensing images in Tanzania: Practitioners' and participants’ perspectives54
Harvesting trees to harvest cash crops: The role of migrants in forest land conversion in Uganda54
A people-based density perspective on physical/virtual world spaces in the microcosmic city54
Understanding political bias in climate change belief: A public perception study from South East Queensland54
The relations between farmers’ land tenure security and agriculture production. An assessment in the perspective of smallholder farmers in Rwanda53
A framework for participatory scenario planning to guide transitions towards sustainability in mountain social-ecological systems: A case study from the Colombian Andes53
An exploration of the relationship between land governance and development through a systematic review of interventions52
Collective action in the pastural area of Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment52
Transition from subsistence grazing to nature-based recreation: A nuanced view of land abandonment in a mountain social-ecological system, southwestern Cape, South Africa52
Reinventing the industrial land use policy in democratized development states – A comparison of Taiwan and South Korea51
Undertaking land administration reform: Is there a better way?51
The unintended consequences of Egypt's institutional land regime on unplanned settlement growth in the Nile Valley51
Predicted enrollment in alternative attribute Conservation Reserve Program contracts51
Creating synergies between payments for ecosystem services, green bonds, and catastrophe insurance markets for enhanced environmental resilience50
Methodology for the development of LADM country profiles49
Right to the city and community facility planning for elderly: The case of urban renewal district in Hong Kong49
Changes in mangrove coverage classification criteria could impact the conservation of mangroves in Mexico49
Address the challenge of cultivated land abandonment by cultivated land adoption: An evolutionary game perspective48
Interactions between centrality and commuting costs in a mountainous city: Implications for jobs-housing relationships and land use policies48
Public real estate resource – A burden or a source of income? A study of municipal land management in Poland48
Understanding cropland abandonment from economics within a representative village and its empirical analysis in Chinese mountainous areas47
Climate change risk reduction in cultural landscapes: Insights from Cinque Terre and Waterloo47
Eco-districts and data-driven smart eco-cities: Emerging approaches to strategic planning by design and spatial scaling and evaluation by technology47
Top-down intergovernmental relations and power-building from below in China's urban redevelopment: An urban political order perspective47
Spatial dimensions in stated preference valuation: The role of place attachment47
Regional coordinated development policy as an instrument for alleviating land finance dependency: Evidence from the urban agglomeration development47
Impact of COVID-19 in the forestry sector: A case of lowland region of Nepal47
Highway expansion and urban sprawl in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area47
Impact of land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investments on food security status of displaced households: The case of Ethiopia46
Freight operations in city centers: A land use conflict in urban planning46
Importance of forest landscape quality for companies operating in nature tourism areas46
Climate-related land use policies in Brazil: How much has been achieved with economic incentives in agriculture?45
Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape45
The influence of policy design on club good provisions: A study of for-profit shopping mall roof gardens in Shanghai45
Land tenure security for low-income residents' urban livelihoods: A human development approach review of temporary occupation license45
Reutilising abandoned cropland in the Hill agroecological region of Nepal: Options and farmers’ preferences44
Land use and green crime: Assessing the edge effect44
Identifying key factors affecting foreigners' choice on real estate acquisition: The case of İzmir City, Turkey44
Gender norms, landholdership, and rural land use fee and agricultural income tax in Ethiopia44
Land for urbanization: Shifting policies and variegated accumulation strategies in a fast-growing city in eastern India44
Barn or building lot? A cross-case comparison viewing the role of agricultural interests in Austria’s local spatial planning processes44
Spatial diversification of property tax policy – Searching for yardstick competition in Polish metropolitan areas44
From squatting to high-rise: Could urban regeneration projects redefine everyday life in Turkey?43
Land use regulations, transit investment, and commuting preferences42
Analyzing pattern features of urban/rural residential land use change: The case of the southern coast of Turkey42
Can efficient urban land use mitigate land use conflicts? Empirical evidence from the central Chengdu–Chongqing region, China42
Community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): Determinants and policy implications in Tanzania42
A spatial decision support system for multi-dimensional sustainability assessment of river basin districts: the case study of Sarno river, Italy41
Forest conversion and timber certification in the public plantation estate of NSW: Implications at the landscape and policy levels41
Economic case for sustainable peatland management: A case study in Kahayan-Sebangau Peat Hydrological Unit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia41
Rural development funding and wildfire prevention: Evidences of spatial mismatches with fire activity41
A novel index for assessing the rural population hollowing at fine spatial resolutions based on Tencent social media big data: A case study in Guangdong Province, China41
Temporal transferability of the housing price component of an integrated land use and transportation model41
The legitimacy of result-oriented and action-oriented agri-environmental schemes: A comparison of farmers’ and citizens’ perceptions41
Detecting the land use of ancient transhumance routes (Tratturi) and their potential for Italian inner areas’ growth41
Reviewing the reportage of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement issues in mainstream Indian Media41
Social multi-criteria evaluation for managing biodiversity conservation conflicts40
Tibetan buddhist monastery-based rangeland governance in Amdo Tibet, China40
Market tools for the provision of urban green spaces in post-socialist Sofia40
Determinants of the lives of households after land loss for urbanization: Experiences from Vinh city, Nghe An province39
Expansion of olive orchards and their impact on the cultivation and landscape through a case study in the countryside of Cordoba (Spain)38
Municipal response to state legislation limiting local oversight of private urban tree removal in Florida38
Exploring the motivation and challenges for land-users engaged in sustainable grazing in Europe38
Co-design approaches in land use related sustainability science – A systematic review38
Urban agriculture potential of home gardens in residential land uses: A case study of regional City of Dubbo, Australia38
Plantation forestry: Carbon and climate impacts38
Smart mobility projects: Towards the formalization of a policy-making lifecycle38
How does China’s rural collective commercialized land market run? New evidence from 26 pilot areas, China38
Impacts of large-scale forestry investments on neighboring small-scale agriculture in northern Mozambique37
Viewpoint: Act local, effect global: Integrating farm plans to solve water quality and climate change problems37
Environmental regulation and land resource allocation in China: Empirical evidence from micro-level land transaction data37
Terrorism and land use in agriculture: The case of Boko Haram in Nigeria - a replication attempt of the paper by Adelaja & George (2019)37
Achieving the supply-demand balance of ecosystem services through zoning regulation based on land use thresholds37
Planning-related land value changes for explaining instruments of compensation and value capture in Switzerland37
The mining permitting process in selected developed economies37
Spatiotemporal dynamics of cropland expansion and its driving factors in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A nuanced analysis at the county scale37
The densification of second home areas — sustainable practice or speculative land use?37
Land marketization and industrial restructuring in China36
Land governance in Northern Ghana: Creating communities of practice between tribal leaders and the government36
Green space dynamics in response to rapid urbanization: Patterns, transformations and topographic influence in Chattogram city, Bangladesh36
Land and housing price increases due to metro effect: An empirical analysis of Santiago, Chile, 2008–201936
VGI-based spatial data infrastructure for land administration36
A cost-benefit analysis of applying urban agriculture in sustainable park design36
Design and implementation of 3D strata objects registration based on LADM – A case study in Malaysia35
Process analysis of inter-governmental negotiation in delineating permanent prime farmland around cities: The case of Chongqing, China35
Editorial Board35
Why do some Participatory Guarantee Systems emerge, become effective, and are sustained over time, while others fail? An application of the Ostrom social-ecological system framework35
Bayesian analysis of demand for urban green space: A contingent valuation of developing a new urban park35
Editorial Board34
The importance of protected habitats and LiDAR data availability for assessing scenarios of land uses in forest areas34
Institutional analysis and informal urban settlements: A proposition for a new institutionalist grounded property rights perspective34
A ‘New Relationship’? Reflections on British Columbia’s 2003 Forest Revitalization Plan from the perspective of the Li̓l̓wat First Nation34
Comments on Acosta-Velázquez et al. changes in mangrove coverage classification criteria could impact the conservation of mangroves in Mexico. Land Use Policy, 2023, 129, 10665134
The short and long run effects of land use consolidation programme on farm input uptakes: Evidence from Rwanda34
Making illegality visible: The governance dilemmas created by visualising illegal palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia34
Removal and reconstruction: Multi-period price effects on nearby housing from urban village redevelopment34
Simulation of urban growth scenarios using integration of multi-criteria analysis and game theory34
The spatial planning of housing and urban green space: A combined stated choice experiment and land-use modeling approach34
Unraveling spatial agglomeration patterns in agri-environmental schemes: Evidence from the improvement of steppe habitats in the Natura 2000 network in Catalonia (Spain)34
Analysis of the factors influencing industrial land leasing in Beijing of China based on the district-level data34
Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments33
Calibrating Nepal's scientific forest management practices in the measure of forest restoration33
Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China33
Governance of densification and climate change adaptation: How can conflicting demands for housing and greening in cities be reconciled?33
Legislative protection of agricultural land33
Land tenure regimes for women in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana: Opportunities and threats33
Has the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China impacted the income and employment of rural households?33
Urban spatial structure and firm growth: Evidence from China33
Opinion paper on green deal for the urban regeneration of industrial brownfield land in Europe33
Toward sustainable land use in China: A perspective on China’s national land surveys33
An agent-situation-based model for networked action situations: Cap-and-trade land policies in China32
Risk preferences, intra-household dynamics and spatial effects on chemical inputs use: Case of small-scale citrus farmers in Indonesia32
What matters most in determining European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental measures? A systematic review of the quantitative literature32
Appreciation of Nordic landscapes and how the bioeconomy might change that: Results from a discrete choice experiment32
Trade-offs between the natural environment and recreational infrastructure: A case study about peatlands under different management scenarios32
Integrating support groups, an effective approach to regenerate historic neighborhoods of Iran Case study: Oudlajan Neighborhood, Tehran32
An economic-psychological perspective on perceived land tenure security: Evidence from rural eastern China31
Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: Garden cities’ policies for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world31
Urban expansion simulation under constraint of multiple ecosystem services (MESs) based on cellular automata (CA)-Markov model: Scenario analysis and policy implications31
Correlation between land use spatial and functional transition: a case study of Shaanxi Province, China31
Village classification in metropolitan suburbs from the perspective of urban-rural integration and improvement strategies: A case study of Wuhan, central China31
Agricultural land use policies and landscape dynamics: Evidence from rainforest agroecological zone31
An adaptation of reference class forecasting for the assessment of large-scale urban planning vision, a SEM-ANN approach to the case of Hong Kong Lantau tomorrow31
Which sustainability objectives are difficult to achieve? The mid-term evaluation of predicted scenarios in remote mountain agricultural landscapes in Slovakia31
The economic impacts of green stormwater infrastructure: An evaluation of novel stormwater management policies in Washington, D.C.31
Functional transition of cultivated ecosystems: Underlying mechanisms and policy implications in China31
Use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in frontier areas: A case study in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon31
Land tenure and conservation in agriculture: Evidence from United States farm-level data30
Spatial–temporal characteristics and influencing factors of farmland expansion in different agricultural regions of Heilongjiang Province, China30
Editorial Board30
Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China30
The shifting role of public–private partnerships in vacant property redevelopment30
Assessing synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in forest landscape management30
Territorial spatial planning for regional high-quality development – An analytical framework for the identification, mediation and transmission of potential land utilization conflicts in the Yellow Ri30
Subsidization of mechanized tillage as an alternative to fire-based land preparation by smallholders: An economic appraisal of the case of southwestern Brazilian Amazon30
Success factors in cadastral boundary settlements based on land surveyor’s opinions30
Protected area geographical management model from design to implementation for specially protected environment area29
Measures to reduce land subsidence and greenhouse gas emissions in peatlands: A Dutch case study29
Adoption of sustainable land and water management practices and their impact on crop productivity among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa29
Local to global escalation of land use conflicts: Long-term dynamics on social movements protests against pulp mills and plantation forests in Argentina and Uruguay29
Editorial Board29
Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions29
The Credibility Thesis, a decade onwards: A review of the theoretical field, findings and future29
Causal linkages between land reform and factor demand under tenure insecurity: Evidence from Amhara Region, Ethiopia29
Making green pledges support biodiversity: Nature-based solution design can be informed by landscape ecology principles29
Enhancing Turkish land readjustment via a combination of IPA-based on SWOT and workshops29
Incorporating indigenous boundaries into Australian Law29
Context matters: Rethinking resource governance theories for Mongolian pastoral systems29
The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society, by Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Toronto Press, 202129
Could the new eco schemes replace the long-known agri-environmental measures? Evidence from two labeled discrete choice experiments29
Spatiotemporal analysis of underlying factors in urban transformations: Quantifying the importance of urban plan intentions in the Austin Metropolitan Area, Texas29
Urban growth models. An application to American cities29
Urbanization provocateur: Reaching urban planning-led development in Saudi Arabia28
Optimization of cultivated land pattern for achieving cultivated land system security: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China28
Why do farmers abandon agricultural lands? The case of Western Iran28
Are silvicultural subsidies an effective payment for ecosystem services in Slovakia?28
Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development28
An experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland28
Amazon rainforest deforestation influenced by clandestine and regular roadway network28
Spatial decision support systems for effective ex-ante risk evaluation: An innovative model for improving the real estate redevelopment processes28
Examining the spatial simulation and land-use reorganisation mechanism of agricultural suburban settlements using a cellular-automata and agent-based model: Six settlements in China28
Selection of suitable parking lot sites in megacities: A case study for four districts of Istanbul27
The economic impacts of the diffusion of agroforestry in Brazil27
Normative, livelihood, and demographic influences on enrollment in a payment for ecosystem services program27
The green conundrum: Navigating the paradox of buffer farmlands of a mangrove forest landscape27
Airports in the urban landscape: externalities, stigmatization and housing market27
Participatory development of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for Austria’s agriculture and food systems27
Developing a decision-making framework within the management of historical cities: Towards integrated conservation and development of the Roudaki neighbourhood27
Agricultural production in the least developed countries and its impact on emission of greenhouse gases – An energy approach27
Land use institutions and social-ecological systems: A spatial analysis of local landscape changes in Poland27
The land footprint of the global food trade: Perspectives from a case study of soybeans26
For or against sustainable development? A geospatial analysis of the state of green space ecosystems in West Gonja, Ghana26
Blockchain in real estate: Recent developments and empirical applications26
Bridging land value capture with land rent narratives26
Zoning for character: Contextual rezoning and socioeconomic change in New York City neighborhoods, 1986–201926
Spatio-temporal evolution of urban built-up areas and analysis of driving factors —A comparison of typical cities in north and south China26
The impact of downsizing protected areas: How a misguided policy may enhance landscape fragmentation and biodiversity loss26
Farming by the sea: A qualitative-quantitative approach to capture the specific traits of coastal farming in Brittany, France26
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