Land Use Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Land Use Policy is 16. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board238
Explanation of land-use system evolution: Modes, trends, and mechanisms234
Development of an agent-based First Nation land use voting model: Experiments in policy adoption at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada213
Amenity-based development and protected areas in the American West150
Urban expansion-flood damage nexus: Evidence from the Dosso Region, Niger149
Efficiency of urban land use in China’s resource-based cities, 2000–2018148
Social capital and the effectiveness of land use policies: Evidence from rural China140
Assessing performance and disparities in China’s land finance transition: Insights from neo-liberalism and neo-Marxism138
The Greek model of urbanization136
How do different rural-land-consolidation modes shape farmers’ ecological production behaviors?129
Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe: Chinese farmers’ responses to shifts in policy and changing socio-economic conditions125
Using transfer of development rights (TDR) in a legally ambiguous context: Istanbul case120
What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018118
Land redevelopment under ambiguous property rights in transitional Vietnam: A case of spatial transformation in Hanoi city center117
Engaging citizens in land use policy in the smart city context117
How do upzonings impact neighborhood demographic change? Examining the link between land use policy and gentrification in New York City114
Regional differences and dynamic evolution of urban land green use efficiency within the Yangtze River Delta, China111
Views of government and non-government actors on urban forest management and governance in ten Latin-American capital cities111
Mitigating conflicts in the implementation of intensive land use policies: Insights from a tripartite evolutionary game model104
Digital technologies for climate-induced disaster risk reduction and management in Ghana: Applicability and operational challenges104
Establishment of an inter-provincial compensation system for farmland protection in China: A framework from zoning-integrative transferable development rights100
Retraction notice to “Model of the influencing factors of the withdrawal from rural homesteads in China: Application of grounded theory method” [Land Use Policy 85 (2019) 285–289]99
Evaluation of land consolidation projects with parcel shape and dispersion98
Modelling the legal spaces of 3D underground objects in 3D land administration systems95
Domain-Driven Design applied to land administration system development: Lessons from the Netherlands92
From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services89
Governance of interdependent ecosystem services and common-pool resources89
Planning control over rural land transformation in Hong Kong: A remote sensing analysis of spatio-temporal land use change patterns87
How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries86
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 management85
Land valuation with Best Worst Method in land consolidation projects85
How does mining policy affect rural migration of Mongolia?84
A comprehensive framework for evaluating ecosystem quality changes and human activity contributions in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China83
Classifying innovation districts: Delphi validation of a multidimensional framework81
Planning, development pressure, and change in green infrastructure quantity and configuration in coastal Texas81
Thriving in turbulent times: Livelihood resilience and vulnerability assessment of Bolivian Indigenous forest households79
A multiple models-multiple users group GIS-based decision support system for land use problems78
Urban agriculture business models and value propositions: Mixed methods approach based on evidence from Polish and Italian case studies76
An intelligent web-based spatial group decision support system to investigate the role of the opponents’ modeling in urban land use planning76
Araguaia biodiversity corridor cost benefit analysis: Large scale restoration and sustainable agribusiness in Amazon and Cerrado75
After legalization: Cannabis, environmental compliance, and agricultural futures74
Editorial Board74
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 Region74
A National Park split by an internal border. Analysing the case of Sierra de Guadarrama (Spain)73
Urban conservation in the public eye: Evaluating the integrity achieved in the rehabilitation plan of Karim-Khan Zand Complex, Shiraz, Iran based on people’s perceptions71
Norms triumph over self-interest! The role of perceived values and different norms on sustainable agricultural practices70
Uncertainty in policy transfer across contaminated land management regimes: Examining the Nigerian experience69
Editorial Board68
Conservation motivations and willingness to pay for wildlife management areas among recreational user groups68
How have the land reform, misunderstanding, and dysfunction of modernity led to rural underdevelopment in Iran?66
Visualisation and dissemination of 3D valuation units and groups – An LADM valuation information compliant prototype65
Upgrading to 3D cadastre in Morocco: Lessons learned from benchmarking of international 3D cadastral systems64
Editorial Board64
Securing tenure for conflict-affected populations: A case study of land titling and fit-for-purpose land administration in post-conflict Sri Lanka64
Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada62
The contribution of Gudo forest conservation culture is key to biodiversity conservation the case of Sheka Zone, southwest Ethiopia62
Payment for ecosystem services and the practices of environmental fieldworkers in policy implementation: The case of Bolsa Floresta in the Brazilian Amazon62
The role of UK universities as economic drivers in a localisation agenda: A case study of City Deals62
Not just sand: The folly of dismantling the environmental protection of dunes in Brazil62
Editorial Board62
Factors affecting utilization opportunity of wetlands and their immediate surroundings in abandoned mining sites: A case study for Istanbul61
Are there trade-offs between conservation and development caused by Mexican protected areas?60
Will environmental land management fill the income gap on upland-hill farms in England?60
Productivity dynamics and state support after a land titling program: Evidence from Colombia59
Producing rice while conserving the habitat of an endangered waterbird: Incentives for farmers to integrate water management58
Beneath the appearance of state-led gentrification: The case of the Kwun Tong Town Centre redevelopment in Hong Kong58
Different responses to mega-trends in less favorable farming systems. Continuation and abandonment of farming land on the islands of Lesvos and Lemnos, Greece57
Forecasting residential sprawl under uncertainty: An info-gap analysis57
The nexus between growth strategies of master plans and spatial dynamics of a metropolitan city: The case of Lahore, Pakistan57
Spatial valuation of urban green lungs: Unveiling the true worth of urban parks through MGWR in Chengdu, China57
Urban green spaces and social vulnerability in Brazilian metropolitan regions: Towards environmental justice56
Women’s access to land and the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM): Requirements, modelling and assessment56
Ecological network assessment in dynamic landscapes: Multi-scenario simulation and conservation priority analysis56
Land rights, resource allocation and urban settlement choices of migrant workers in Yunnan, Western China56
Revealing the intentions of farmers to recultivate abandoned farmland: A case study of the Buryat Republic in Russia56
A multi-level spatial assessment framework for identifying land use conflict zones55
Fair shares? Advancing land economics through cooperative game theory54
Advancing understanding of the linkages between local land policy interventions and the responsiveness of housing supply: Intervention mechanisms in the Finnish context54
Sustainable tax system design for use of mass real estate appraisal in land management54
Revisiting the ‘southern mood’? Post-crisis Mediterranean urbanities between economic downturns and land-use change53
Climate change vulnerability, adaptation measures, and risk perceptions at households level in Acholi sub-region, Northern Uganda52
A commentary on Botswana’s 2019 National Land Policy51
Integration of indigenous people into sustainable development through the territorial analysis of their potential: The case of the Lenca people in Honduras51
A closer look at Turkish cadastre and its successful completion51
Strengthening common property rights institutions in Liberia: Quasi-experimental evidence on customary governance and equity effects51
Impact of land use on bike-sharing travel patterns: Evidence from large scale data analysis in China50
Mass appraisal as affordable public policy: Open data and machine learning for mapping urban land values50
Mitigating “displaced” land degradation and the risk of spillover through the decommoditization of land products50
Title Validation and collaborative mapping to accelerate quality assurance of land registration50
Modeling the effects of carbon payments and forest owner cooperatives on carbon storage and revenue in Pacific Northwest forestlands50
Heterogeneous choice in WTP and WTA for renting land use rights in rural china: Choice experiments from the field50
Land expropriation – The hidden danger of climate change response in Mozambique49
Regulating land use in the catchment of the Great Barrier Reef49
Community forest management led to rapid local forest gain in Nepal: A 29 year mixed methods retrospective case study48
Vulnerability of British farms to post-Brexit subsidy removal, and implications for intensification, extensification and land sparing48
Austrian Cadastre still in use – Example proceedings to determine the legal status of land property in southern Poland48
Formalising village land dispossession? An aggregate analysis of the combined effects of the land formalisation and land acquisition agendas in Tanzania48
Rural planning? An integrated dynamic model for assessing quality of life at a local scale47
Underground pipeline explosions and housing prices: Quasi-experimental evidence from an urban city47
Evaluating the use of old cadastral maps47
Reclaiming small to fill large: A novel approach to rural residential land consolidation in China47
Land for housing: Quantitative targets and qualitative ambitions in Dutch housing development46
Taxation aiming environmental protection: The case of Brazilian Rural Land Tax46
Agro-industrial development: Lessons from Brazil46
A sacrifice for the greater good? On the main drivers of excessive land take and land use change in Hungary46
Limits on city size and related topics46
Blockchain on stool land acquisition: Lessons from Ghana for strengthening land tenure security other than titling45
Mapping oil palm-related land use change in Guatemala, 2003–2019: Implications for food security44
Gender differences in effective use of land rights in South India44
Storing carbon or growing forests?43
Between the state and citizens: Changing governance of intermediary organisations for inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration in Seoul43
Land accumulation: An option for improving technical and environmental efficiencies of rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta43
Land tenure security and agrarian investments in the Peruvian Highlands43
Modern challenges of property market analysis- homogeneous areas determination43
How can spatial planning influence housing market dynamics in a pro-growth planning regime? A case study of Shanghai43
Challenges and problems of agricultural land use changes in Lithuania according to territorial planning documents: Case of Vilnius district municipality43
Adopting Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) model to assess land governance in the peri-urban areas of Ibadan, Nigeria.42
Does climate change leads to severe household-level vulnerability? Evidence from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India42
Does joint land ownership empower rural women socio-economically? Evidence from Eastern Nepal42
Ex-ante effects of the 2018 Agricultural Improvement Act’s grassland initiative42
Developing a masterplan for a sustainable marine sector in a small islands region: Integrated MCE spatial analysis for decision making42
The role of local officials in promoting public participation during local urban planning processes: Evidence from Chinese cities42
Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: A small town’s growth perspective42
Tourism on the roof of the world: Socio-ecological impacts of tourism on the Indian Trans-Himalaya42
How to make cities the home of people – a ‘soul and body’ analysis of urban attractiveness41
Exploring the commodification of biodiversity using olive oil producers’ willingness to accept41
Narratives on cutting down trees on private land. A comparison of urban and rural municipalities in Poland using the Q-deliberation method41
Discerning the process of cultivated land governance transition in China since the reform and opening-up-- Based on the multiple streams framework41
“The Times They Are A-Changin' “ – research trends and perspectives of reindeer pastoralism – A review using text mining and topic modelling41
Taking cultural landscapes into account: Implications for scaling up ecological restoration41
The most places at risk surrounding the COVID-19 treatment hospitals in an urban environment- case study: Tehran city40
From green fields to housing societies: Unraveling the mysteries behind agricultural land conversion in Pakistan40
An unsupervised machine learning approach to the spatial analysis of urban systems through neighbourhoods’ dynamics40
Challenges of sporadic land registration in Palestine40
Stylized facts of past 1000-year of China’s cropland changes40
The contribution of the commons to the persistence of mountain grazing systems under the Common Agricultural Policy40
Commercial gentrification and neighbourhood change: A dynamic view on local residents' quality of life in Tehran40
Tracking the history of urban expansion in Guangzhou (China) during 1665–2017: Evidence from historical maps and remote sensing images39
Targeting sustainable greenhouse agriculture policies in China and Denmark: A comparative study39
Towards unlocking sustainable land consumption in sub-Saharan Africa: Analysing spatio-temporal variation of built-up land footprint and its determinants39
City love and place quality assessment of liveable and loveable neighbourhoods in Rotterdam39
Nuanced insights into land buyer perceptions of engaging in rural land transactions from a cost perspective: Evidence from China’s emerging rural land market39
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in spatial planning for urban flood mitigation: The perspective of flood management experts in Accra38
Integrating aquaponics production systems into the Romanian green procurement network38
Cross-boundary cooperation in wildfire management during the custodial management period of the US Forest Service: A case study of the eastern Cascades of Oregon, USA, 1905–194538
Maize price variability, land use change, and forest loss: evidence from Ghana38
Urban farmers coping strategies in the wake of urbanization and changing market in Tamale, Northern Ghana38
Property tax as a policy against urban sprawl38
Multiple agents and self-organisation in complex cities: The crucial role of several property37
Agrivoltaics and landscape change: First evidence from built cases in the Netherlands37
Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity36
Spatial transition dynamics of urbanization and Rohingya refugees’ settlements in Bangladesh36
Natural and financial impacts of payments for forest carbon offset: A 14 year-long case study in an indigenous community in Panama36
Patterns of (future) environmental risks from cocoa expansion and intensification in West Africa call for context specific responses36
Extending LADM to support workflows and process models36
Farmer typologies integrating latent and observed characteristics: Insights for soil and water conservation outreach36
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) support for subdivision phase of land readjustment: A case study from Turkey36
The impact of cropland transfer on rural household income in China: The moderating effects of education35
Bridging sustainable game management into land use policy: From principles to practice35
Understanding conflicting views in conservation: An analysis of England35
Do residents care about urban dumps? Evidence from individual housing transaction data35
Expansion of construction land along the motorway in rapidly developing areas in Cambodia35
Tackling urban disparities through participatory culture-led urban regeneration. Insights from Lisbon35
Contribution of ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in a changing landscape: A case study from the Eastern Himalaya35
Have the new round of agricultural land system reform improved farmers' agricultural inputs in China?35
Towards a holistic land law evaluation in sub-Saharan Africa: A novel framework with an application to Rwanda’s organic land law 200535
Biofuel feedstock plantations closure and land abandonment in Ghana: New directions for land studies in Sub-Saharan Africa34
Property killed a peace park dream: The entanglement of property, politics and conservation along the Gariep34
Post-wildfire rebuilding and new development in California indicates minimal adaptation to fire risk34
Obstacles to local payments for ecosystem services schemes for water management at the catchment scale: A case study from Eastern Scotland34
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 years34
Shaping the urban home garden: Socio-ecological forces in the management of private green spaces33
Contracting with citizens: How residents in Hamburg and New York negotiated development agreements33
The decoupling relationship between land use efficiency and carbon emissions in China: An analysis using the Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) framework33
How does practice matches land laws in Central Asia?33
Integrating spatial development with infrastructure provision along an envisioned transport corridor: A conceptual framework and its application to India33
Chinese land complex: Hometown ties and corporate land acquisition33
How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends33
Linking Land Administration Domain Model and BIM environment for 3D digital cadastre in multi-storey buildings33
How does industrial transformative process shape the spatial dynamics of urban development?33
Expert guidance for environmental compensation is consistent with public preferences – Evidence from a choice experiment in Sweden32
Planning cities beyond digital colonization? Insights from the periphery32
The evolution of government behaviors and urban expansion in Shanghai32
Spatiotemporal evolution differences of urban green space: A comparative case study of Shanghai and Xuchang in China32
Application of the building cohesion method in spatial planning to shape patterns of the development in a suburban historical landscape of a 'village within Kraków'32
Non-monetary landscape features most desirable across the Upper Missouri River Basin32
The effect of a UNESCO world heritage site designation on willingness to pay to preserve an agri-environmental good: The case of the dry stone walls in Mt. Etna32
Implementing policy interventions to support farmer cooperation for environmental benefits31
Exploring the spectrum of urban area key figures using data from Finland and proposing guidelines for delineation of urban areas31
Do agricultural machinery services promote village farmland rental markets? Theory and evidence from a case study in the North China plain31
Uncommonly known change characteristics of land use pattern in Guangdong Province–Hong Kong–Macao, China: Space time pattern, terrain gradient effects and policy implication31
Mixed public-private and private extension systems: A comparative analysis using farm-level data from Ireland31
Sustainable low-input urban park design based on some decision-making methods31
Sustainable irrigation in Indonesia: A case study of Southeast Sulawesi Province31
Toward serving land consolidation on the table of sustainability: An overview of the research landscape and future directions31
Understanding the relationship between land tenure and conservation behavior: Recommendations for social science research31
Land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon: Stealing public land with government approval31
Roads and land tenure mediate the effects of precipitation on forest cover change in the Argentine Dry Chaco31
Conflict dynamics over farmland use in the multifunctional countryside31
Pathways for improving rangeland governance under constraining land tenure systems: Application of a participatory Bayesian Belief approach.31
Tradable planning permits in the field: Executive experimental results from Germany30
Integrated assessment of regional approaches for biodiversity offsetting in urban-rural areas – A future based case study from Germany using arable land as an example30
Financial sector actors, the state, and the rescaling of Jakarta’s extended urban region30
Enacted relations and the resilience of territorially embedded production systems in Europe30
Assessing sustainable urban development based on functional spatial differentiation of urban agriculture in Wuhan, China30
Do land use regulations help give rise to informal settlements? Evidence from Buenos Aires30
Antidote or poison? Digital economy and land-use30
Locational attributes of the lodging industry: An empirical study on urban hotels in Ankara, Turkey30
How business-related governance strategies impact paths towards the formation of global cities? An institutional embeddedness perspective30
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland30
Public goods in rural areas as endogenous drivers of income: Developing a framework for country landscape valuation30
Tele-connection of global agricultural land network: Incorporating complex network approach with multi-regional input-output analysis29
The implications of sugarcane contract farming on land rights, labor, and food security in the Bunyoro sub-region, Uganda29
Linking actors and scales by green grabbing in Bozbük and Kazıklı29
Factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate in Campaign-Based Watershed Management program in Boset District, Ethiopia29
Thailand’s policy vacuum: Land use planning as sites of negotiation and contestation29
The current policy focus shift from a sectoral to a territorial governance of wildfire reduction is aligned with forest owners’ preferences29
A framework for supporting climate-exposed asset decision-making in agriculture29
Revisiting global food production and consumption patterns by developing resilient food systems for local communities29
Decentralization Of Vietnam'S forestlands: The policy process and impact28
Unravelling the paradox of spatial homogeneity: An analysis of land use planning and monofunctional development in Wroclaw, Poland28
Adaptive change of land use to nature and society in China’s agro-pastoral ecotone28
Orderly and synergistic development of urban-rural integration based on evolutionary game model: A case study in the Jiangxi Province, China28
Does a more compact urban center layout matter in reducing household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese cities28
To what extent are ecosystem services provided by geodiversity affected by anthropogenic impacts? A quantitative study in Caraguatatuba, Southeast coast of Brazil28
Social perceptions and conservation in protected areas: Taking stock of the literature28
Civic administrative centres in the northern and southern cities of Ghana: Assessing their state and locational distribution and the implications for urban growth and land demand28
Harmonization potential of the fragmented farmlands in Finland: The pros and cons for critical parcel characteristics28
Jurisdictional approaches to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Brazil: Why do states adopt jurisdictional policies?28
Spatial effects in the socioeconomic valuation of peri-urban ecosystems restoration27
Incentive-based conservation in Peru: Assessing the state of six ongoing PES and REDD+ initiatives27
Closer to causality: How effective is spatial planning in governing built-up land expansion in Fujian Province, China?27
Are adaptation strategies to climate change gender neutral? Lessons learned from paddy farmers in Northern Iran27
Community-led regeneration practice in Ghalam Gudeh District, Bandar Anzali, Iran: A participatory action research (PAR) Project27
Land valuation in densifying cities: The negotiation process between institutional landowners and municipal planning authorities27
Environmental, demographic and policy drivers of change in mediterranean hedgerow landscape (Central Spain)27
Did Zipf's Law hold for Chinese cities and why? Evidence from multi-source data27
Time to adopt a context-specific and market-based compensation scheme for a new round of the Grain for Green Program27
Understanding the macro-micro dynamics of urban densification: A case study of different sized Indian cities27
Trends and drivers of land abandonment in Poland under Common Agricultural Policy27
Understanding socio-spatial perceptions and Badlands ecosystem services valuation. Is there any welfare in soil erosion?27
Perceptions about switchgrass and land allocation decisions: Evidence from a farmer survey in Missouri27
Policies to reconcile forest conservation and rural development: A pathway to bridge the forest transition in Bhutan?27
Local stakeholders’ priorities and perceptions towards forest ecosystem services in the Red panda habitat region of Nepal27
An environmental management experience to control wildfires in the mid-mountain mediterranean area: Shrub clearing to generate mosaic landscapes27
Toward classification-based sustainable revitalization: Assessing the vitality of traditional villages26
Land use policy implications of demographic shifts: Analyzing the impact of aging rural populations on agricultural carbon emissions in China26
Analysis of off-site economic costs induced by runoff and soil erosion: Example of two areas in the northwestern European loess belt for the last two decades (Normandy, France)26
Spatio-temporal interplay between ecosystem services and urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A new perspective for considering the scarcity effect26
Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning26
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