Land Use Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Land Use Policy is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Agro-industrial development: Lessons from Brazil289
Editorial Board258
The Forest Management Policy and its Influence in Forest area Utilization and Empowering Forest Communities in Yogyakarta168
Modern challenges of property market analysis- homogeneous areas determination167
Local stakeholders’ priorities and perceptions towards forest ecosystem services in the Red panda habitat region of Nepal161
A commentary on Botswana’s 2019 National Land Policy159
Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka150
The impact of decision-making on conflict: Rethinking the roles of technocrats and residents during Tidal River Management in coastal Bangladesh140
Advancing urban hub planning: A bibliometric analysis of concepts, effects evaluation, and spatial design139
Revisiting global food production and consumption patterns by developing resilient food systems for local communities137
The role of UK universities as economic drivers in a localisation agenda: A case study of City Deals131
Editorial Board131
Orderly and synergistic development of urban-rural integration based on evolutionary game model: A case study in the Jiangxi Province, China127
Identifying opportunities to close yield gaps in China by use of certificated cultivars to estimate potential productivity117
Mapping and prioritising landscape feature restoration in agricultural landscapes: A case study in Brandenburg, Germany110
Land titling and internal migration: Evidence from China108
Thriving in turbulent times: Livelihood resilience and vulnerability assessment of Bolivian Indigenous forest households106
Reviewing the Cerrado's limits, flora distribution patterns, and conservation status for policy decisions105
Property view assessment by integrating BIM and 3D GIS: A quantitative methodology103
Corrigendum to “Factors influencing people’s knowledge, attitude, and practice in land use dynamics: A case study in Ca Mau province in the Mekong delta, Vietnam” [Land Use Policy 72 (2018) 227–238]102
Explanation of land-use system evolution: Modes, trends, and mechanisms102
Where did the forest go? Post-deforestation land use dynamics in the Dry Chaco region in Northwestern Argentina101
Editorial Board99
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 management97
The contribution of the commons to the persistence of mountain grazing systems under the Common Agricultural Policy96
Evaluating the use of old cadastral maps96
Austrian Cadastre still in use – Example proceedings to determine the legal status of land property in southern Poland96
Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China94
Does a more compact urban center layout matter in reducing household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese cities91
Blockchain technology adaptation for land administration services: The importance of socio-cultural elements86
Assessing performance and disparities in China’s land finance transition: Insights from neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism85
Community perceptions of the social impacts of the Metolong Dam and Reservoir in Lesotho80
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 Region79
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning79
Amenity-based development and protected areas in the American West79
Integration of indigenous people into sustainable development through the territorial analysis of their potential: The case of the Lenca people in Honduras78
A geospatial decision support system for ecotourism: a case study in the Campania region of Italy78
Tourism on the roof of the world: Socio-ecological impacts of tourism on the Indian Trans-Himalaya76
The direct and lag effects of administrative division adjustment on urban expansion patterns in Chinese mega-urban agglomerations76
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 China75
Tradable planning permits in the field: Executive experimental results from Germany75
Title Validation and collaborative mapping to accelerate quality assurance of land registration75
Farmer typologies integrating latent and observed characteristics: Insights for soil and water conservation outreach73
Upgrading to 3D cadastre in Morocco: Lessons learned from benchmarking of international 3D cadastral systems73
Natural and financial impacts of payments for forest carbon offset: A 14 year-long case study in an indigenous community in Panama72
Flexibility of land use plans: Between supporting development and opportunism. Evidence from Poland72
Agrivoltaics and landscape change: First evidence from built cases in the Netherlands70
Toward classification-based sustainable revitalization: Assessing the vitality of traditional villages68
Adaptive change of land use to nature and society in China’s agro-pastoral ecotone67
A multi-level spatial assessment framework for identifying land use conflict zones67
Tele-connection of global agricultural land network: Incorporating complex network approach with multi-regional input-output analysis67
From isolation to linkage: Holistic insights into ecological risk induced by land use change67
Editorial Board66
The decoupling relationship between land use efficiency and carbon emissions in China: An analysis using the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework66
Editorial Board66
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Editorial Board65
Decomposition analysis of bioresources: Implementing a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy strategy in the Baltic Sea Region65
The influence of policy design on club good provisions: A study of for-profit shopping mall roof gardens in Shanghai64
Spatial dimensions of dichotomous adaptive responses to natural hazards in coastal districts of West Bengal, India62
Understanding political bias in climate change belief: A public perception study from South East Queensland61
Traditional leasehold of land for residential and commercial use in Ghana: Structure and practices from the Golden Stool60
The unintended consequences of Egypt's institutional land regime on unplanned settlement growth in the Nile Valley60
Comparison of traditional method and genetic algorithm optimization in the land reallocation stage of land consolidation59
Lessons learned from participatory land use planning with high-resolution remote sensing images in Tanzania: Practitioners' and participants’ perspectives59
Regional coordinated development policy as an instrument for alleviating land finance dependency: Evidence from the urban agglomeration development59
Top-down intergovernmental relations and power-building from below in China's urban redevelopment: An urban political order perspective58
Understanding cropland abandonment from economics within a representative village and its empirical analysis in Chinese mountainous areas58
Eco-districts and data-driven smart eco-cities: Emerging approaches to strategic planning by design and spatial scaling and evaluation by technology58
The relationships between land tenure, cattle production, and climate change – A systematic literature review57
A people-based density perspective on physical/virtual world spaces in the microcosmic city57
Land tenure security for low-income residents' urban livelihoods: A human development approach review of temporary occupation license57
Harvesting trees to harvest cash crops: The role of migrants in forest land conversion in Uganda57
The relations between farmers’ land tenure security and agriculture production. An assessment in the perspective of smallholder farmers in Rwanda56
An exploration of the relationship between land governance and development through a systematic review of interventions56
Impact of COVID-19 in the forestry sector: A case of lowland region of Nepal54
Comparative analysis of driving forces of land use/cover change in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Selenga River Basin54
Reutilising abandoned cropland in the Hill agroecological region of Nepal: Options and farmers’ preferences54
Digital advocacy at the science-policy interface: Resolving land-use conflicts in conservation forests53
Does the development zone promote population urbanization? Evidence from China53
Collective action in the pastural area of Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment53
Changes in mangrove coverage classification criteria could impact the conservation of mangroves in Mexico53
Address the challenge of cultivated land abandonment by cultivated land adoption: An evolutionary game perspective52
Creating synergies between payments for ecosystem services, green bonds, and catastrophe insurance markets for enhanced environmental resilience52
The land-blending strategy: Contribution of metapopulation theory to the land sparing-sharing debate51
A framework for participatory scenario planning to guide transitions towards sustainability in mountain social-ecological systems: A case study from the Colombian Andes51
Interactions between centrality and commuting costs in a mountainous city: Implications for jobs-housing relationships and land use policies51
Spatial dimensions in stated preference valuation: The role of place attachment51
Unveiling environmental drivers of soil erosion in South Korea through SHAP-informed machine learning50
Reinventing the industrial land use policy in democratized development states – A comparison of Taiwan and South Korea50
Towards climate targets with cropland afforestation – effect of subsidies on profitability49
Predicted enrollment in alternative attribute Conservation Reserve Program contracts49
Gender norms, landholdership, and rural land use fee and agricultural income tax in Ethiopia49
Climate change risk reduction in cultural landscapes: Insights from Cinque Terre and Waterloo49
Tourism-driven displacement in Naples, Italy49
Highway expansion and urban sprawl in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area48
Indigenes’ exclusion from neo-customary land: A perspective from changes in usufruct rights in Pramso, peri-urban Kumasi – Ghana48
Undertaking land administration reform: Is there a better way?48
Urbanization path, housing price and land finance: International experience and China’s facts47
The German Verkehrswert (market value) of land: Statutory land valuation, spatial planning, and land policy47
Freight operations in city centers: A land use conflict in urban planning47
Impact of land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investments on food security status of displaced households: The case of Ethiopia47
Right to the city and community facility planning for elderly: The case of urban renewal district in Hong Kong47
Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape46
Climate-related land use policies in Brazil: How much has been achieved with economic incentives in agriculture?46
From squatting to high-rise: Could urban regeneration projects redefine everyday life in Turkey?45
Social multi-criteria evaluation for managing biodiversity conservation conflicts45
Land use regulations, transit investment, and commuting preferences45
The densification of second home areas — sustainable practice or speculative land use?45
Forest conversion and timber certification in the public plantation estate of NSW: Implications at the landscape and policy levels45
Spatial diversification of property tax policy – Searching for yardstick competition in Polish metropolitan areas45
Barn or building lot? A cross-case comparison viewing the role of agricultural interests in Austria’s local spatial planning processes45
Reviewing the reportage of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement issues in mainstream Indian Media45
Impacts of large-scale forestry investments on neighboring small-scale agriculture in northern Mozambique44
Exploring the motivation and challenges for land-users engaged in sustainable grazing in Europe44
Expansion of olive orchards and their impact on the cultivation and landscape through a case study in the countryside of Cordoba (Spain)44
Tibetan buddhist monastery-based rangeland governance in Amdo Tibet, China44
Plantation forestry: Carbon and climate impacts44
The mining permitting process in selected developed economies43
Terrorism and land use in agriculture: The case of Boko Haram in Nigeria - a replication attempt of the paper by Adelaja & George (2019)43
Unravelling Brazil's approach: Policy and governance gaps for social innovation in forest and landscape restoration42
Market tools for the provision of urban green spaces in post-socialist Sofia42
Temporal transferability of the housing price component of an integrated land use and transportation model42
Economic case for sustainable peatland management: A case study in Kahayan-Sebangau Peat Hydrological Unit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia42
Detecting the land use of ancient transhumance routes (Tratturi) and their potential for Italian inner areas’ growth41
Community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): Determinants and policy implications in Tanzania41
Land and housing price increases due to metro effect: An empirical analysis of Santiago, Chile, 2008–201941
Determinants of the lives of households after land loss for urbanization: Experiences from Vinh city, Nghe An province40
A spatial decision support system for multi-dimensional sustainability assessment of river basin districts: the case study of Sarno river, Italy40
A cost-benefit analysis of applying urban agriculture in sustainable park design40
Spatiotemporal dynamics of cropland expansion and its driving factors in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A nuanced analysis at the county scale39
Planning-related land value changes for explaining instruments of compensation and value capture in Switzerland39
Viewpoint: Act local, effect global: Integrating farm plans to solve water quality and climate change problems39
Land for urbanization: Shifting policies and variegated accumulation strategies in a fast-growing city in eastern India38
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, China38
Analyzing pattern features of urban/rural residential land use change: The case of the southern coast of Turkey38
Land use and green crime: Assessing the edge effect38
Land marketization and industrial restructuring in China38
VGI-based spatial data infrastructure for land administration38
Achieving the supply-demand balance of ecosystem services through zoning regulation based on land use thresholds38
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
Green space dynamics in response to rapid urbanization: Patterns, transformations and topographic influence in Chattogram city, Bangladesh37
Rural development funding and wildfire prevention: Evidences of spatial mismatches with fire activity37
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 framework37
Co-design approaches in land use related sustainability science – A systematic review37
Bayesian analysis of demand for urban green space: A contingent valuation of developing a new urban park37
Can efficient urban land use mitigate land use conflicts? Empirical evidence from the central Chengdu–Chongqing region, China37
Environmental regulation and land resource allocation in China: Empirical evidence from micro-level land transaction data37
Urban agriculture potential of home gardens in residential land uses: A case study of regional City of Dubbo, Australia37
Editorial Board37
Capturing or compensating? Comparing legitimacies, legitimations and rationales of added value capture instruments36
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, 10665136
Process analysis of inter-governmental negotiation in delineating permanent prime farmland around cities: The case of Chongqing, China36
Subsidization of mechanized tillage as an alternative to fire-based land preparation by smallholders: An economic appraisal of the case of southwestern Brazilian Amazon36
Analysis of the factors influencing industrial land leasing in Beijing of China based on the district-level data36
Agricultural land use policies and landscape dynamics: Evidence from rainforest agroecological zone36
Editorial Board36
The importance of protected habitats and LiDAR data availability for assessing scenarios of land uses in forest areas36
Design and implementation of 3D strata objects registration based on LADM – A case study in Malaysia36
Editorial Board36
A land use policy analysis method for natural hazard risk management across a regional single-family housing inventory36
The spatial planning of housing and urban green space: A combined stated choice experiment and land-use modeling approach36
Institutional analysis and informal urban settlements: A proposition for a new institutionalist grounded property rights perspective36
An economic-psychological perspective on perceived land tenure security: Evidence from rural eastern China35
Trade-offs between the natural environment and recreational infrastructure: A case study about peatlands under different management scenarios35
Making illegality visible: The governance dilemmas created by visualising illegal palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia35
Connecting land tenure to climate change35
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 tomorrow35
Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: Garden cities’ policies for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world35
Legislative protection of agricultural land35
Appreciation of Nordic landscapes and how the bioeconomy might change that: Results from a discrete choice experiment34
Integrating support groups, an effective approach to regenerate historic neighborhoods of Iran Case study: Oudlajan Neighborhood, Tehran34
An agent-situation-based model for networked action situations: Cap-and-trade land policies in China34
Which sustainability objectives are difficult to achieve? The mid-term evaluation of predicted scenarios in remote mountain agricultural landscapes in Slovakia34
Has the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China impacted the income and employment of rural households?34
Land tenure and conservation in agriculture: Evidence from United States farm-level data34
The economic impacts of green stormwater infrastructure: An evaluation of novel stormwater management policies in Washington, D.C.33
Calibrating Nepal's scientific forest management practices in the measure of forest restoration33
Risk preferences, intra-household dynamics and spatial effects on chemical inputs use: Case of small-scale citrus farmers in Indonesia33
Unraveling spatial agglomeration patterns in agri-environmental schemes: Evidence from the improvement of steppe habitats in the Natura 2000 network in Catalonia (Spain)32
Opinion paper on green deal for the urban regeneration of industrial brownfield land in Europe32
What matters most in determining European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental measures? A systematic review of the quantitative literature32
The short and long run effects of land use consolidation programme on farm input uptakes: Evidence from Rwanda32
Urban spatial structure and firm growth: Evidence from China32
Time Preferences and green agricultural technology adoption: Field evidence from rice farmers in China32
Correlation between land use spatial and functional transition: a case study of Shaanxi Province, China32
Toward sustainable land use in China: A perspective on China’s national land surveys32
Functional transition of cultivated ecosystems: Underlying mechanisms and policy implications in China32
Simulation of urban growth scenarios using integration of multi-criteria analysis and game theory32
Assessing synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in forest landscape management32
Urban expansion simulation under constraint of multiple ecosystem services (MESs) based on cellular automata (CA)-Markov model: Scenario analysis and policy implications32
Governance of densification and climate change adaptation: How can conflicting demands for housing and greening in cities be reconciled?31
Village classification in metropolitan suburbs from the perspective of urban-rural integration and improvement strategies: A case study of Wuhan, central China31
Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China31
Editorial Board31
Protected area geographical management model from design to implementation for specially protected environment area31
Are silvicultural subsidies an effective payment for ecosystem services in Slovakia?31
Spatial–temporal characteristics and influencing factors of farmland expansion in different agricultural regions of Heilongjiang Province, China31
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 Ri31
Success factors in cadastral boundary settlements based on land surveyor’s opinions31
Incorporating indigenous boundaries into Australian Law31
The Credibility Thesis, a decade onwards: A review of the theoretical field, findings and future31
Removal and reconstruction: Multi-period price effects on nearby housing from urban village redevelopment31
Land tenure regimes for women in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana: Opportunities and threats31
Editorial Board31
Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions31
The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society, by Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Toronto Press, 202131
Selection of suitable parking lot sites in megacities: A case study for four districts of Istanbul30
Structural succession of land resources under the influence of different policies: A case study for Shanxi Province, China30
Measures to reduce land subsidence and greenhouse gas emissions in peatlands: A Dutch case study30
Could the new eco schemes replace the long-known agri-environmental measures? Evidence from two labeled discrete choice experiments30
The land footprint of the global food trade: Perspectives from a case study of soybeans30
Adoption of sustainable land and water management practices and their impact on crop productivity among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa29
Participatory development of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for Austria’s agriculture and food systems29
Land use institutions and social-ecological systems: A spatial analysis of local landscape changes in Poland29
Farming by the sea: A qualitative-quantitative approach to capture the specific traits of coastal farming in Brittany, France29
Amazon rainforest deforestation influenced by clandestine and regular roadway network29
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
Causal linkages between land reform and factor demand under tenure insecurity: Evidence from Amhara Region, Ethiopia29
Airports in the urban landscape: externalities, stigmatization and housing market29
Making green pledges support biodiversity: Nature-based solution design can be informed by landscape ecology principles29
Normative, livelihood, and demographic influences on enrollment in a payment for ecosystem services program29
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
Blockchain in real estate: Recent developments and empirical applications28
An experimental analysis of German farmers’ decisions to buy or rent farmland28
Spatial decision support systems for effective ex-ante risk evaluation: An innovative model for improving the real estate redevelopment processes28
Secure tenure or equal access? Farmers’ preferences for reallocating the property rights of collective farmland and forestland in Southeast China28
Optimization of cultivated land pattern for achieving cultivated land system security: A case study in Heilongjiang Province, China28
The green conundrum: Navigating the paradox of buffer farmlands of a mangrove forest landscape28
Spatio-temporal evolution of urban built-up areas and analysis of driving factors —A comparison of typical cities in north and south China27
A strategic development model for regeneration of urban historical cores: A case study of the historical fabric of Hamedan City27
Context matters: Rethinking resource governance theories for Mongolian pastoral systems27
Revealing the solar energy potential by integration of GIS and AHP in order to compare decisions of the land use on the environmental plans27
Enhancing Turkish land readjustment via a combination of IPA-based on SWOT and workshops27
Agroecological and technological practices in European arable farming: Past uptake and expert visions for future development27
Institutional support for building resilience within rural communities characterised by multifunctional land use27
Why do farmers abandon agricultural lands? The case of Western Iran27
Developing a decision-making framework within the management of historical cities: Towards integrated conservation and development of the Roudaki neighbourhood27
Editorial Board27
Local to global escalation of land use conflicts: Long-term dynamics on social movements protests against pulp mills and plantation forests in Argentina and Uruguay27
The economic impacts of the diffusion of agroforestry in Brazil27
Urbanization provocateur: Reaching urban planning-led development in Saudi Arabia27
Property rights and adjustment for sustainable development during post-productivist transitions in China26
Opportunities and barriers to certified organic grain production on rented farmland in the U.S. Midwest state of Indiana26
Land observatories, discourses and struggles beyond the smokescreen. A case study in Senegal26
An analysis of coastal sand dune management in Oregon (United States) from the 19th to the 21st century26
Are we promoting green cities in Latin America and the Caribbean? Exploring the patterns and drivers of change for urban vegetation26
Local benevolent property development entrepreneurs in small town regeneration26
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